The retirement thread

[croflash]

Danny Ecker has retired after a farewell meet yesterday.

[Powell]

Wioletta Potępa has officially retired - her farewell meet was the Skolimowska Memorial last weekend. Apparently Anna Jesień is quitting after this season as well.

[TDB]

Why was Kim Collins name mentioned in this thread in 2009? Dude was beating the world through 70 meters at the '11 world champs, and got booted from the Olys this year

[pakillo]

Eliseo Martin and Ruth Beitia ( won her eight Spanish title yesterday)

[EPelle]

Germany's Marion Wagner retired.
http://www.leichtathletik.de/index.php? ... wsID=40054

[Sasuke]

Strange retirement the one of Ruth Beitia. She is not that old (33 years) and is still jumping well (she was almost over 2.03 at the olympic games and cleared 2.00 metres twice this year). She is still among the best high jumpers of the world (still capable of clearing a personal record) so I wonder why she decided to retire.

[polevaultpower]

Derek Miles and Danny Ecker just had their final meets.

[Marlow]

Strange retirement the one of Ruth Beitia. She is not that old (33 years) and is still jumping well (she was almost over 2.03 at the olympic games and cleared 2.00 metres twice this year). She is still among the best high jumpers of the world (still capable of clearing a personal record) so I wonder why she decided to retire.

a. to get on with 'the rest of her life'
b. training to stay that good is very arduous and time-consuming
c. to pursue other dreams (see a.), perhaps to be more fully involved as a parent (or to become one)
d. to actually make enough money to live on
e. tired of peeing in a cup for other people's purpose.
f. feels she has fully explored her athletic identity
g. has been accumulating niggling injuries that never fully go away
h. wants to start eating desserts again

that's the first several of 100s.

[EPelle]

Beitia concludes her career with 19 national titles (11 indoors). She's headed to Rome for holidays. She'll then head out for some cycling and skiing. As far as her personal goals are concerned, consider that she's held the Spanish national record from 1998 onward, when she jumped 1.89m. She's been unrivalled in Spain. Appears as though she works as a Regional Deputy in the Cantabrian Parliament, and will continue along that course.

For more info on her retirement:
http://www.abc.es/20120827/deportes/abc ... 71215.html

[Gabriella]

Germany's Marion Wagner retired.
http://www.leichtathletik.de/index.php? ... wsID=40054

And to follow her, Anne Cibis nee Mollinger, announces her retirement, aged just 26. I find this a strange decision as she set a good PB this year of 11.17. To retire, at your peak while still young....me no compute

[aaronk]

Strange retirement the one of Ruth Beitia. She is not that old (33 years) and is still jumping well (she was almost over 2.03 at the olympic games and cleared 2.00 metres twice this year). She is still among the best high jumpers of the world (still capable of clearing a personal record) so I wonder why she decided to retire.

a. to get on with 'the rest of her life'
b. training to stay that good is very arduous and time-consuming
c. to pursue other dreams (see a.), perhaps to be more fully involved as a parent (or to become one)
d. to actually make enough money to live on
e. tired of peeing in a cup for other people's purpose.
f. feels she has fully explored her athletic identity
g. has been accumulating niggling injuries that never fully go away
h. wants to start eating desserts again

that's the first several of 100s.

Makes you wonder what keeps people like Joanne Dow, Teresa Vail, and Merlene Ottey involved!!

[EPelle]

Alekna retires tonight.
http://www.lrytas.lt/-13470400061345422 ... %C4%85.htm

[Half Miler]

C'mon, he's only 40! He's got another 10 years left!

[croflash]

If this was indeed the end of Alekna's career, he deserved better than being stuck outside the main program.

[mal]

Strange retirement the one of Ruth Beitia.
that's the first several of 100s.

Makes you wonder what keeps people like Joanne Dow, Teresa Vail, and Merlene Ottey involved!!

Hubris

[EPelle]

Alekna not done.
http://www.european-athletics.org/news/ ... at-40.html

[pakillo]

Read somewhere that Muriel Hurtis is retiring

EC 2002 (Monaco di Baviera)- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-mIqthxFF8

WC 2003 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU2NESPpMJE

[carfu]

Read somewhere that Muriel Hurtis is retiring

Muriel Hurtis has not ended her career yet. She said she was thinking of retiring at the end of next season. So at least one more year ahead.

[pakillo]

Read somewhere that Muriel Hurtis is retiring

Muriel Hurtis has not ended her career yet. She said she was thinking of retiring at the end of next season. So at least one more year ahead.

coool

[26mi235]

Lance Armstrong is done racing certified (by IAAF, etc) marathons...

[18.99s]

Danny McFarlane officially retired in October at 40 years old, after becoming the first 40something to ever run sub-50 in the 400m hurdles (49.69 to be exact). If I remember correctly, no other M40 has even run sub-52.

[Anthony Treacher]

Why retire? Relax. Compete in masters athletics. Enjoy yourself. Keep your waistline forever.

[tandfman]

I've just read that ex-NCAA and European Champion Ineta Radevica has retired.

[18.99s]

Why retire? Relax. Compete in masters athletics. Enjoy yourself. Keep your waistline forever.

"Retirement" only means retirement from the elite level. Many will indeed move on to the masters circuit or enter the local 5K, 10K, marathons or triathlons. Or other sports entirely like recreational basketball leagues or powerlifting.

[pakillo]

I've just read that ex-NCAA and European Champion Ineta Radevica has retired.

She obviously feels it's time to retire but last three years were probably the best years in her career, great championships performer. I thought there was more to come... Hopefully (speaking of Latvians) Stanislavs Olijars will be back.

http://sports.delfi.lv/news/other_kinds ... o.delfi.lv

[tandfman]

I've just read that pole vaulter Monika Pyrek, winner of 2 World Championships silver medals, has retired.