Until Wednesday, the organizers of the cycling league race on Sunday at the Salzburgring had hoped for a start from sensational Olympic champion Anna Kiesenhofer. But the 30-year-old withdrew her mention. Her next gig is probably not until September.
Anna Kiesenhofer was the Austrian sensation in Tokyo. With her hussar ride to Olympic gold in the road bike race, the 30-year-old caused a sensation all over the world.
Her first appearance after the gold triumph would have been planned on Sunday at the Salzburgring. Where she was named in the cycling league for the 13 km individual time trial, her specialty. Until yesterday. Her team Cookina Graz withdrew the mention.
Longer because of the final reception in the Hofburg
Your team boss and at the same time women’s national coach Klaus Kabasser explains: “We talked about it again. But because of the final Olympic reception on Tuesday in the Hofburg, she stayed four or five days longer in Austria. Now she has a lot of professional and private things to do in her adopted home, Lausanne. “
On Wednesday we went back to Switzerland
Kiesenhofer left for Switzerland yesterday, where the Vienna University of Technology graduate (mathematics, physics) works at the “École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne”, where she lives with her boyfriend. The mathematician’s first appearance after the Olympics has to wait. “We plan to start at the EM in Trento from September 8th to 12th,” said Kabasser.
Some of Kiesenhofer’s teammates at the start
Some of Kiesenhofer’s teammates will be at the start on Sunday. Among them Manuela Hartl, who travels to Salzburg as the defending time trial champion.
Kabasser will be present at the Salzburgring in his role as the women’s team boss. Since there will be a team time trial again for the first time at the European Championships (three women and men mixed), the women’s team with sisters Christina and Kathrin Schweinberger and Sara Rijkes will start a test run under competitive conditions before the men’s elite race. Even without Kiesenhofer, there is a lot going on on Sunday at the Ring.