Olympic twelfth
No more at 21! Austria’s Grabowski calls it quits
On the day of the Austrian pool swimmer's last Olympic appearance in Paris, Lena Grabowski competed in her last career race in Innsbruck. The 21-year-old finished second in the 200m backstroke on Saturday at the national championships held parallel to the Games, having won the 100m backstroke the day before.
Grabowski finished twelfth in the 200m backstroke at the 2021 Olympics and won short course bronze at the European Championships in Kazan in 2021.
"A drop in performance"
From 2022, after she finished school, the Burgenland native fell behind in terms of performance. Grabowski: "I really noticed when this double pressure to perform between school and sport dropped off, and since then I've had a drop in performance. I realized how much I missed this structure. I was so caught up in this rhythm that my mind was always working." She is now entering a new phase of her life. In terms of sport, however, she expressed interest in working in coaching, sports promotion or mentoring for talented athletes in the future.
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