16:32. After Jonas Baumann and Erwan Kaeser, Switzerland has lost yet another athlete from its ranks. On Thursday, Roman Schaad announced on his Instagram account that he was calling time on his career. ” It’s time to say goodbye,” he wrote on the social network.
“I’ve had a lot of injuries along the way. And yet I’ve managed to come back again and again, stronger and with complete dedication,” he adds. But now my body has shown me one last time that there are limits, even when my head is still full of dreams. So it’s time to take a new path and put an end to my career as a professional racer.
Over the course of the Cross-Country Skiing World Cup, the 31-year-old managed to finish in the top 10 on four occasions in individual sprints. In total, the Swiss skier will have stood in the starting gate at this level of competition 86 times.
