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Laura Dahlmeier, twice Olympic gold medalist, suffered a serious injury after she fell while she was at a high elevation in the remote mountains of Karakorum in northern Pakistan, according to multiple reports.
Dahlmeier was supposed to miss. The German media ZDF reported that the elevated Tuesday helicopter data concluded that the 31 -year -old was at least seriously injured. “
Search and rescue teams have not yet contacted the biathlete born in German until Tuesday morning.
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January 15, 2020, Bavaria, Ruhpolding: Biatlon: World Cup, Sprint 7.5 km, women at Chiemgau Arena. Laura Dahlmeier, former biathlete, in a television interview. (Matthias Balk/DPA/Picture Alliance through Getty Images)
A spokeswoman for the Pakistani government said that “he was carried by the locals of the landslides site,” according to Reuters. Dahlmeier representatives confirmed that he was at an estimated altitude of 18,700 feet at the time of mountaineering accident.
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“Laura Dahlmeier was going up with her mountaineering partner on July 28 when she was caught in a rock fall. The accident took place around noon at an altitude of approximately 5,700 meters [18,700 feet]”Dahlmeier’s management told ZDF in a statement.
“His partner immediately called emergency services, and a rescue operation began immediately. Due to the distance of the area, a helicopter could only reach the accident site on the morning of July 29.”
Laura Dahlmeier in Germany in Action competes during the Biathlon World Team Challenge in Veltins Arena on December 28, 2019 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. (TF-IMAGES/GETTY IMAGES)
Dahlmeier moved away from professional competence in 2019. He cited the decrease in his general passion for playing sports in his retirement announcement.
“After an incredibly hard season with many ups and downs, I no longer feel the passion of 100 percent needed for professional sports. That is why after a long time I decided to finish my active biathlon career,” Dahlmeier said in 2019.
Laura Dahlmeier of Germany shoots before the individual biathlon of 15 km of women in the center of Biatlon Ansia on February 15, 2018 in Pyeongchang-Gun, South Korea. (Adam Pretty/Getty Images)
He obtained gold medals at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, where he made the story as the first women’s biathlete to win a double sprint and persecution in the same games.
Dahlmeier is also an Olympic bronze medalist. It ended third in the individual 15 km event at the 2018 Games.
