Paris (AFP)
German skier Viktoria Rebensburg, Olympic champion of the giant in 2010, announced on her social networks Tuesday the end of her career at only 30 years old.
"Today is a difficult day for me because I have decided to end my career after 13 years. I am making this decision with a heavy heart, after a long reflection in recent weeks," she wrote.
"After my injury in the spring and then the last two months of training on the slopes, I realized that I will no longer be able to reach my very best level".
Great rival of the double French world champion Tessa Worley, with whom she shares the same day of birth (October 4, 1989), Viktoria Rebensburg has two Olympic medals (gold in 2010, bronze in 2014) and two world medals (silver in 2015 and 2019) in addition to three small globes (2011, 2012 and 2018), still on his favorite discipline, the giant.
Ironically, this specialist of the giant who practiced more and more speed tests had won the first downhill of her career on February 8 at home in Garmisch, for her last World Cup weekend.
The next day, she fell during the super-G and fractured the tibial plateau of her left knee.
With 14 victories, Viktoria Rebensburg is 3rd in the list of the most victorious skiers in World Cup giants behind the Swiss Vreni Schneider (20) and the Austrian Annemarie Proell (16).
It has a total of 49 World Cup podiums including 19 victories (14 giants, 4 super-G, 1 downhill), but had not managed this season to play the leading roles in giant.
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