Hamburg – Lymphzellenerkrankung, tumor in the shoulder, chemotherapy: four years ago, the Athletics career Möldner Antje Schmidt seemed to have ended. Now the 30-year-old may be called European champion over 3000 meters obstacle. After a thrilling final sprint, the German champion secured a surprise gold at the European Championships in Zurich.
It was the first European title on this route for the German women. “I first looked to see what was going in and out leave me behind on my sprint. Awesome!” Said Möldner-Schmidt.
The 30-year-old European Championship bronze medalist of 2012 showed fighting spirit, pointed Europe Annual Best Charlotta Fougberg from Sweden to second place and so did her personal fairy tale perfect. For Möldner-Schmidt’s career seemed to be over, before they had even begun.
In a training camp in January 2010 had their lives changed abruptly. . They had pain in the shoulder and noticed a bump which swelled as she squeezed around it
investigations revealed the devastating diagnosis: lymphoma. The tumor was removed, the chemotherapy began immediately thereafter. In October 2010 Möldner-Schmidt started training again. “I was at zero and jogged as best I could,” she says, looking back.
| Athletics Championships 2014: The medal table | ||||
| space | Team | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 1 | UK | 12 | 5 | 6 |
| 2 | France | 9 | 8 | 6 |
| 3 | Germany | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Russia | 3 | 6 | 13 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 6 | Poland | 2 | 5 | 5 |
| 7 | Ukraine | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 8 | Spain | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Italy | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | Belarus | 2 | 0 | 0 |
By 2012 they reported back with bronze at the European Championships in Helsinki on the big stage. Then she placed seventh at the Olympic Games in London. “The biggest success of my career was after the hard time,” she said, “flirted” before Zurich with a medal.
Now she made her personal fairy tale perfect.
The track was Möldner-Schmidt placed practically in the cradle. Her father and brother were touring, her sister Silke and her twin sister Berit Mittelstrecklerinnen. For several years now Möldner-Schmidt belongs to the national elite runners
In 2005, she had won the German title for the first time over 1500 meters and also mixed with international front. During World Indoor Championships she finished sixth. The first 3000-meter steeplechase, she contested in 2008 in the Belgian Neerpelt, where she finished second equal and the German record improved.
After her illness Möldner-Schmidt denied again from 2011 competitions. She has since won five national titles. Already at the World Cup last year she was allowed to leave to congratulate themselves in eighth and second best European. Now the 1.73 meter tall and 56 kilograms light runner has reached the top.
Despite the gold medals for Möldner-Schmidt and putter Christina Schwanitz on the last day of the EM conclusion is from a German perspective from negative. A total of eight medals are the worst EM result of a German team after the reunification. “We have complied with the duty in the freestyle some hopes have but can not realize,” says Clemens Prokop, President of the German Athletics Association
This is still formulated benevolent. Especially once the half of the 16 Medals of the Euro 2012 brought the DLV team, even the total German record low of eleven medals at the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg was significantly undercut. Less medals won by the team of the Federal Republic last in 1990 with five – at that time there was in Split but for the GDR in her last appearance 35 times Bronze, Silver or Gold
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