“Suddenly all the time stands still”
Winter sports stars are worried about Laura Dahlmeier
07/29/2025 – 5:02 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
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Laura Dahlmeier is at least seriously injured after a rockfall. Long-time companions fear for the life of the 31-year-old.
The German biathlon Olympic champion Laura Dahlmeier was hit by a rockfall while climbing. According to her management, she was at least seriously injured. No signs of life were found during a helicopter overflow at the scene of the accident. Up to this point, nobody had been able to pass personally to the 31-year-old due to the continuous great risk of stone stone in the Pakistani Karakorum Mountains.
Fans and companions are worried about Dahlmeier’s health. Hundreds of followers commented on her last Instagram post, wished her a good recovery and prayed for the German biathlete.
Tobogganing champion Felix Loch also took part in social networks and expressed his support. “Suddenly time stands still. We all think of you, Laura,” he wrote. “In your thoughts with you,” wrote his colleague Dajana Eitberger. Natalie Geisenberger posted on Instagram: “Laura! Fighting !!!”
Dahlmeier has been a state-certified mountain and ski guide since 2023, and mountaineering has already become a great passion during her active athlete career. This passion was also one of the reasons for your early 2019 end of your career at the age of 25.
Until then, Dahlmeier had already developed into one of the most successful biathletes. She gave her World Cup debut in Oslo on March 1, 2013. She won the first World Cup title in 2015 with the German season in the Finnish Contiolahti, six other gold medals were to follow. At the 2018 Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, she secured gold in the sprint and the persecution, and she won bronze in an individual.
In her best World Cup season 2016/17, the Bavarian got both the large crystal ball for the overall World Cup and the small crystal balls in singles and persecution, and was elected as a reward for Germany’s athlete of the year. On May 17, 2019, she explained her career end as a surprise early. Previously, she had missed numerous races in her final season because of many illnesses.
For this reason, too, and because of her interests away from competitive sports, Dahlmeier no longer felt motivation in biathlon. Only as an expert at ZDF was she active in her former sport, otherwise she devoted herself to her love for the mountains. Every year she completed various mountaineering missions. It was only last November that she had climbed the Himalaya summit Ama Dablam in Nepal and set up a speed record.