The Brazilian Arthur Zanetti, world and Olympic champion of artistic gymnastics, announced this Sunday his retirement as an athlete and the beginning of his career as a coach.
“The final point has arrived in my career as an athlete. For me, I would continue much longer, but you have to be sensible, both in mind and body. It is difficult to finish this stage as an athlete because I want to, but the body speaks, and so I will respect,” Zanetti said in a statement.
Zanetti, 34, won Olympic gold in gymnastics in her debut London 2012 and crowned the first Latin American to win this medal in any of the categories of artistic gymnastics.
Four years later, in Rio de JaneiroZanetti won the silver medal.
In Tokyo He finished in eighth position and his path to the last edition of the Games in Paris was interrupted by many injuries, which forced the athlete to undergo five operations in the last three years.
In addition to the Olympic medals, Zanetti has four victories at the World Championships, one gold and three silvers, and three medals at the Pan American Games, one gold and two silvers.
Between 2012 and 2014 he remained undefeated, which informally earned him the nickname “The King of the Rings.”
The athlete said in his farewell letter that it was “hard to say goodbye” but now a “new phase of his life” will begin where he will work as a coach in a sports center in the municipality of São Caetano do Sul in the State of São Paulo, where her gymnastics career began at the age of 7
Source: La Verdad
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