Para-cyclist Denise Schindler shattered her collarbone in a serious fall during training. A start at the road world championship in September is currently questionable.
Denise Schindler has to take a longer forced break. As the native of Karl Marx-Städter and bronze medalist from Tokyo announced via Instagram, she shattered her collarbone in a training fall. After her crash, the 36-year-old with a one-sided amputation could not get up on her own and had to be transported to the FFB Clinic in Munich. Her helmet also broke through twice in the fall and “saved her from a serious head injury”.
“Take your time and take it slow”
“Someone must have decided that I should slow down a bit for the next few weeks,” Schindler wrote: “To be honest, that will be my biggest challenge. Take your time, don’t move too much for the next few days and take it slow. I promise I’ll try.” A start at the Road World Championships from September 8th to 11th in Baie-Comeau, Canada, seems more than questionable.
3D printer prosthesis
At the age of two, Schindler slipped under a tram on an icy path in her native town of Karl-Marx-Stadt and lost a leg. She has her prosthesis made with a 3D printer. In addition to bronze in Tokyo, she won two silvers and one bronze at the Paralympics in London in 2012 and four years later in Rio de Janeiro.
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