She is an Olympic champion and rushed to catch a thief: she suffered an unusual injury that left her out of the World Cup

Anita Włodarczykcurrent Olympic champion in hammer throwing and considered the best athlete in history in her discipline, she will miss the Eugenio’s worldUnited States, which will be played in July and where he was going to look for his fifth title. The 36-year-old Polish woman has had to undergo surgery and she will have to end her season to focus on recovery. Why did you go to the operating room? To treat a unusual left leg thigh injury he sustained while running to a thief.

“Sometimes fate has other plans. My athletics season has come to an end. When I was running after a thief I completely tore my biceps from my thigh. The adrenaline was such that I didn’t even feel it,” said the winner. of three Olympic gold medals (London 2012, Rio de Janeiro 2016 and Tokyo) in a post he shared on Instagram in the past few hours.

A few days earlier she had also told what happened on her social networks, where she shared a photo of her next to her car, raising her fists. A stranger tried to break into her car to steal it; she saw it in time, chased him and captured him; and she handed him over to the police. But on the run hurt his leg. Despite her misfortune, she hasn’t lost her humor. “When I finish my career, I think I’ll be able to fight in the mmm (Mixed Martial Arts) o UFC (Ultimate Combat Championship), “he joked.

At the time she didn’t know the severity of the injury, so she wasn’t sure if she would miss the World Cup or not. But after the surgery they performed on Monday, confirmed it will no longer compete in 2022.

“The operation was successful. I have always emerged victorious from every injury I have suffered in my career and I think it will be the same now. A lot of rehabilitation work awaits me. I remember well when, two years before Tokyo, I had knee surgery and I made a long and tiring journey to return to sports and return to the Olympic podium “commented Wlodarczyk, world record holder in his test with 82.98 meters.

And he added: “Now I have great motivation to repeat it and in two years to win another medal in Paris. I will have my leg in plaster for a few weeks. Thanks for all the messages and calls and for the support I have received. my best to come back next year and give them so much happiness and emotions “.

The Pole, the first woman in history to throw the hammer over 80 meters (82.98), had already missed the Doha World Cup 2019 for that knee problem. But she came back stronger than ever and in Tokyo she won with a throw of 78.48 meters in the final, beating the Chinese wang zhengsilver with 77.03, and his compatriot Malwina Kopron, who had beaten her shortly before in the National Championship of her country and had finished third in the Japanese capital with 75.49. Thus, she became the first athlete to win three Olympic golds in the same event.

Wlodarczyk had started very strong this 2022 season, in which his best score was the 78.06 which he pitched in a tournament in Kasarani, Kenya on 7 May. And he seemed on track to reach his fifth world title, after those in 2009, 2013, 2015 and 2017. Also, after the appointment in Oregon, he had plans to play the European Championship in Munich in August.

Now he will aim for next season, where the big goal will be the World Cup in Budapestwhere she will seek to become the first woman to win five world titles in the same individual event.