Tanja Frank quits

“Can still fully understand the feelings from Rio”

Tanja Frank and Thomas Zajac celebrated Olympic bronze in 2016.(Bild: GEPA)

In 2016, Tanja Frank redeemed Austria with sailing bronze at the Summer Olympics in Rio alongside Thomas Zajac. Now 32 years old, she announced her retirement. 

Tanja Frank was already able to steer a small boat at the age of two and a half and sailed her first regattas at the age of five. So it should come as no surprise that, at 32, she is now drawing a line under her successful career, which culminated in her winning a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, when she saved Austria from a medal-less Summer Games alongside Thomas Zajac in the Nacra17. A week she often thinks back to.