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A strong start for Magdalena Lobnig at the Olympic Games in Paris: with second place in her preliminary heat on Saturday, our rowing hopeful easily secured her place in the quarter-finals!
Five of the seven Austrian medal winners from the Tokyo Games will also be competing in Paris, including Magdalena Lobnig. However, the rower is probably the one of this quintet with the least chance of making the podium again this time. This is not due to a fundamental lack of class, but to the consequences of the spinal disc injury she suffered at the beginning of April.
Only US lady faster
But the 34-year-old, who has been competing since last week, wants to surprise, and on Saturday she easily made it through to the quarter-finals. Of her four competitors, only Kara Kohler (USA) was faster than the 2021 bronze medal winner on the regatta course in Vaires-sur-Marne. The top three went straight through to the quarter-finals.
"The relief is huge. Everything went really well and it was great fun. The start worked well, it went well on the track and then I took something out at the back," said Lobnig. The changes made to training are having an effect: "Everything is going in the right direction and the changes have worked really well. I'm just super happy."
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The medals will not be decided until Saturday next week (10.18am). Until then, the quarter-finals (Tuesday) and the semi-finals (Thursday) have to be survived.
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