The fifth Golden
Fourth gold at the World Championships despite nasty pain
The flood of red-white-red medals at the World Ski Championships for Deaf Athletes in Jasna continued on Sunday. Melissa Köck from Carinthia won the parallel competition and secured her fourth gold at these championships despite a nasty pain in her knee. This brings Austria's medal tally to seven ahead of Monday's slalom.
Kronen Zeitung als bevorzugte Google-Quelle hinzufügen "Melli" was beaming after her next World Championship coup: "It's just incredible. I don't even know what to say." Her fourth gold medal is also so special because she raced with physical problems: "It was a battle against exhaustion and pain." Only four and a half months ago, she had another knee operation.
But the Carinthian is not letting it get her down, and she's fighting back in Jasna. She is also capable of anything in the slalom on Monday. Her coach Jürgen Albel from the Olympic Center in Carinthia says: "She simply has a very special character." This also applies to the entire team in Jasna, which works almost on a voluntary basis. In addition to Albel, the service staff Erwin Thier and Günther Köck, physiotherapist Lisa Winkler and Berni Kurzmann from the Austrian Deaf Sports Association deserve special mention.
Albel also emphasizes: "The army also plays a very important role for Melissa. She has a great job there and receives the best possible support and encouragement." The coach from the Olympic Center in Carinthia emphasizes: "Such successes are possible when the state, the Olympic Center and the performance center work closely together, as they do in Carinthia."
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