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Roleder to hang up her spikes at the end of the indoor season

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German sprint hurdler Cindy Roleder, 33, has announced she will retire from athletics at the end of the indoor season.

Roleder’s last confirmed appearance will be in the 60m hurdles at the German Indoor Championships in Dortmund on 18-19 February but she will postpone her retirement if she makes the German team for the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul from 2-5 March.

"It’s to say goodbye. After the indoor season I will be quitting my athletics career. With the upcoming competitions, I want to say goodbye to the track and experience the emotions, the thrill and the adrenaline again. 

"I am proud of what I have achieved and am now looking forward to my sporting retirement and a completely different life outside of competitive sport," said Roleder in a post on Instagram. 

 

 

Roleder won the 60m hurdles title at the 2017 European Indoor Championships in Belgrade before putting up a staunch defence of her title two years later, winning silver in Glasgow behind Nadine Visser from the Netherlands.

The German also won three medals in the outdoor equivalent at the European Athletics Championships. She became the first German winner of the European 100m hurdles title since reunification in Amsterdam 2016 and she won bronze medals either side of that triumph in 2014 and 2018 respectively.

Initially, Roleder was hoping to bid a timely farewell to competition on home soil at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich but the German was forced to abandon her summer season after a coronavirus infection - and some ensuing complications with her liver - left her bereft of form.

"The thought of quitting was already developing; I then made the decision for myself but I was the most successful German hurdles sprinter, so I have to finish my career well," said Roleder as quoted by Leichtathletik.de.

Aside from her multiple European accolades, Roleder also reached the podium on the global stage at the 2015 World Athletics Championships in Beijing where she was a surprise silver medallist in the 100m hurdles in a still-standing lifetime best of 12.59.

And to underline her reputation as a championship performer, seven of Roleder’s nine fastest times in the 100m hurdles were all set in major championships.




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