After three Olympic victories and 18 World Championship medals, Nordic combined athlete Eric Frenzel announced his retirement at the end of the season. The 34-year-old athlete wants to contest his last competition at the end of March in Lahti, Finland. “Now it’s a nice moment to resign. I don’t need any more confirmation,” he told the FAZ. The family man shaped the sport for more than a decade. He celebrated 43 World Cup victories and won the overall World Cup five times in a row between 2013 and 2017. With team silver in Planica, his 18th World Championships medal, Frenzel recently rose to become the most successful athlete at the Nordic World Ski Championships. He was the German flag bearer at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Frenzel said he had achieved everything he wanted to achieve. After his active career, he wants to continue to bring his experience to bear in the combined sport, which is threatened by being eliminated from the Olympics.
