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The German athletics star plans to switch to the 800m, aiming to challenge top athletes like Mary Moraa, Keely Hodgkinson, and Athing Mu.
The world’s sexiest athlete Alica Schmidt will be out to challenge Mary Moraa, Keely Hodgkinson and Athing Mu in the 800m as she revealed her plans to switch to the distance after the Paris Olympic Games.
Mary Moraa, Athing Mu and Keely Hodgkinson have dominated the 800m but the newbie will be hoping to outsmart them and take the mantle in the two-lap race. The German track star has already resumed training in readiness for the tough challenge awaiting her.
She penned a lengthy message on her Instagram after a long season that was pretty successful for her as she competed at the Paris Olympic Games, every athlete’s dream event to participate. Alica Schmidt was also in action at the European Championships in Rome and the World Athletics Relays in the Bahamas.
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She now makes a deliberate decision to advance to the 800m after the doing the 400m as her professional event for long. However, she has not entirely ditched the quarter mile as she explained she will still compete there from time to time.
“It’s been quite a year 🤯. It was filled with so many highlights and I made some memories that will last forever: from the world relays in the Bahamas, where we qualified the mixed relay for the Olympics to the European championships in Rome, where we qualified the women’s 4x400m for Paris to the German nationals and of course: THE OLYMPICS 🥹,” she wrote.
“After Paris I tried something new and ran a 800m & 600m and really enjoyed pushing out of my comfort zone. Back in 2022, I decided that I wanted to give the 800m a shot after the Paris Olympics, so now it means… I’m going for it next year 👀 I‘m on my way to my first high altitude training camp where I’ll join an international 800m group to train alongside great athletes where I can learn a lot. I‘m super excited for this new challenge and what it will bring✨ (I’m also going to run the 400m but focus more on the endurance part in training for now) Let this journey begin .. xoxo.”
Alica Schmidt took part in her first Olympic Games in Paris after being taken in as a reserve at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. She competed in the mixed 4x400m relay at the where Team Germany finished seventh and was eliminated from the preliminary round.
She now looks to compete against the likes of reigning world champion Mary Moraa, former world champion Athing Mu and reigning Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson in the two-lap race.
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