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Marathon champion must end her career
03/19/2016 - 00:00 hours
Drama to the long-distance runner Simret Restle-Apel (31)!
The athlete from Kassel stopped at a 15-meter fall from the roof of a house,the seventh cervical vertebrae broken, suffered a liver-damage and must end her career.
2002, two-time German half marathon champion had immigrated from Eritrea. After Epo-lock (2012 - 2014) she won in 2015 the Kassel Marathon .
Husband Rainer Apel (62): "Simret been exposed in recent years a considerable stress."
The fall is a result of a panic attack - triggered by calls from criminals who allegedly kidnapped and tortured her brother in Sudan.
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"A real miracle"
Restle-Apel survives 15-meter fall
Top runner Simret Restle-Apel has suffered multiple fractures in a serious accident and had to undergo surgery several times. Her husband hopes that they "can lead a normal life again sometime."
The Wiesbaden distance runner Simret Restle-Apel has severely injured in a fall from a roof and suffered multiple fractures. The reports of the "Wiesbadener Kurier" on Wednesday. How Apels husband Rainer confirmed that it was "a miracle" that his wife is still alive. The accident, in which the 31-year-old almost 15 meters fell into the depths, had already taken place weeks ago almost four, now Apel has left the intensive care unit, but must be further treated.
In the former police report it was said that a woman in a "possibly mental exceptional situation" had gone to the roof of a building and then "crash". The police then went to a "tragic accident" out, evidence of an act of a third did not exist.
The career is over
The multiple German long-distance champion, which had been tested in May 2012 positive for EPO and with her victory at the Kassel Marathon celebrated a successful comeback last year, withdrew among others a fraction of the seventh cervical vertebra and had to a total of five times to undergo surgery , Her right leg is still paralyzed, her athletic career is definitely over.
But the most important thing anyway, that Apel fully recover and possibly drive the everyday life unaided. "We are hopeful that at some point they can again lead a normal life," said her husband.
Source: hessenschau.de
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Simret Restle-Apel after serious accident end of career
Received on Sat Mar 19 2016 - 07:03:32 EDT
