Later Tuesday, German Denise Herrmann-Wick, a reigning individual Olympic and world champion, announced she will also end her career at the Oslo World Cup at age 34. She was considered a late bloomer, competing in her first Olympics at age 27, earning her first of 19 World Cup wins at 29 and winning her World Cup overall title at 31. In 2020, Røiseland won medals in all seven events at the world championships - five gold and two bronze.

I feel it, and I feel the life is so much more than biathlon.” I’m just so happy with everything I have done. “This year, it’s been tough, but it’s been so worth it. “Last year was an incredible season, but I’m so glad I took another year,” she said, according to the IBU. She won one individual bronze medal and two relay golds at last month’s world championships, then earned her two World Cup wins this season two weeks ago. Røiseland was one of the most dominant athletes across all sports at the Olympics, tying the record for most medals won at one Winter Games, then missed the first month of this past season due to health issues. It’s a feeling I had the whole year, actually.” “It’s the right time,” the 32-year-old Røiseland said, according to the International Biathlon Union (IBU). Norway’s Marte Olsbu Røiseland, who won five biathlon medals at last year’s Olympics, including two individual golds, announced she will retire after this weekend’s season-ending World Cup stop in Oslo. Favorite us! Follow Wimbledon Women’s Singles Draw Top-ranked Iga Swiatek lost in the third round to veteran Frenchwoman Alize Cornet, ending her win streak at 37 matches, tying the best in women’s tennis in 32 years. It marked the 40-year-old Williams’ first singles match since last year’s Wimbledon. Jabeur made history by becoming the first African woman, and first Arab or North African man or woman, to reach a major final in the Open Era.Įarlier in the tournament, Serena Williams lost in the first round to 115th-ranked Frenchwoman Harmony Tan. Rybakina, 23, was born and raised in Moscow, then switched nationalities in 2018 to Kazakhstan, which offered her more financial support to further her tennis career. It marked the first Wimbledon women’s final pitting two first-time major finalists since 1962. The only lower-ranked champion was Venus Williams, who was ranked 31st in 2007.

The 23rd-ranked Rybakina, the second-lowest-ranked Wimbledon women’s champion, prevailed 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 to become her nation’s first major champion.

3 seed Ons Jabeur of Tunisia in the final. Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina became one of the unlikeliest Wimbledon women’s champions, rallying past No.

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