At the Biathlon World Championships in Nove Mesto, Mona Brorsson was on the big stage for the last time. The Swedes have now announced the end of their career.
After the season it’s over for Mona Brorsson: The 33-year-old will hang up her rifle, as she announced to “Aftonbladet” after the mass start race in the Czech Republic.
“It feels almost surreal to say it out loud, but I felt like I had to say it out loud myself to understand it. But the time has come,” said Brorsson, who finished 21st in the last World Cup competition. had occupied space.
The Swede looks back on a “long and good career” and has now “come to the conclusion that now is the time. I will leave the sport with joy, there is no sadness. Even if you may not leave all of it “After reaching my goals, I feel like I’ve gained so much more through the sport,” the biathlete explained: “It really gave me everything.”
The biathlete had been thinking about retiring for a long time
Mona Brorsson made her World Cup debut in 2013 and celebrated her greatest successes with the Swedish relay team. The quartet won the World Cup twice and won silver in the relay at the 2019 World Championships in Östersund. A year earlier, she had already won relay silver at the Pyeongchang Olympics. The big highlight was the Olympic relay victory in Beijing in 2022.
Meanwhile, she had her best World Cup season in 2021/22 when she came fourth in the individual rankings.
The Swede confessed that her first thoughts about withdrawing from biathlon arose “last season”: “But I had the feeling that it wasn’t going the way I wanted it to. I was firmly convinced that that I wanted to try again.”