Tracey Hannah beendet World Cup Karriere und widmet sich neuen Zielen.

Nach ihrem World Cup Gesamtsieg im letzten Jahr gingen schon die Gerüchte um, dass Tracey Hannah einen Schlussstrich ziehen würde, doch 2020 ging sie wieder an den Start und zeigt auch in dieser Saison, dass sie zur Elite des Downhill World Cup’s gehört. Gestern verkündete die sympathische Australierin jedoch, dass sie ihre Karriere nach den zwei letzten Rennen in Portugal an den Nagel hängt und sich anderen Zielen für die nächsten Jahre widmen will.

Tracey fährt seit ihrem 14. Lebensjahr professionell Downhill und holte sich in ihrer Karriere einige Titel und Medaillen. Sie stand insgesamt 43 mal auf World Cup Podien, holte sich 6 World Champs Medaillen, wurde Junior Weltmeisterin und erkämpfte sich 2019 den Sieg im World Cup Gesamtklassement. Zusammen mit ihrem Bruder Michael Hannah fährt sie seit Neun Jahren für das Polygon UR Team.

Die 32-jährige verkündete in ihrem Instagram Post aber nicht nur, dass sie ihre World Cup Karriere beendet, sondern, dass sie sich anderen Dingen widmet. Wir können also gespannt sein.

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After 9 years racing for the UR Team I have decided to stop racing World Cups in 2021. It is not a decision I have taken lightly. Fabien took me on with no expectations and zero pressure. During my first year on the team I won the first round of the World Cup series in South Africa. At the 6th round I crashed hard and was seriously injured, I broke my femur, collarbone and had some internal injuries. Within the same 12 months I would go on to break my collarbone 2 more times. Ever since the moment I had a pro ride I have never wanted and never have given less than the best I possibly can. I have battled fear, injury, disappointment, insecurity, and failure to get up, keep going and be competitive for the podium. I am not in a place to give entirely everything in me to this level of racing anymore. It is an extremely high stress environment and I have high expectations and put pressure on myself at every single race to perform. To be one of the best in the world consistently takes meticulous weekly preparation that lasts over a span of sometimes, several off-seasons. My ultimate goal in racing was to win a World Cup Overall Championship, I have done this and it is something I will never forget. I would have loved to win an elite World Title, every World Champs I have raced I gave the most I could give on that day, in that run, for that moment. My World championship was Cairns 2017, even though I did my absolute best I didn’t take home the gold medal, but I felt the rainbow that day. It has been an amazing 9 years racing World Cups with the team, we have been through extreme highs and lows, injuries and strengths, great times and the worst times, we’ve shed many tears and much champagne. I am so thankful to Fabien for giving me a chance 9 years ago and never giving up when I went through the worst injury of my career, bad results and emotional lows, he is the hardest worker I have ever met and has been the best team manager I could have asked for. Thanks to all the staff past and present for making our dreams possible. 2021 marks my 10th year with the UR Team, were working on a new fun kind of schedule to showcase more riding. Thank you everyone ❤ //@ur_team

A post shared by Tracey Hannah (@littletrace13) on Oct 22, 2020 at 7:27am PDT

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