German Natalie Geisenberger, who owns a report seven Olympic luge medals, introduced her retirement from the game at age 35.

“Time to say goodbye,” she opened a social media post captioning a photograph of her together with her Olympic medals and her girls’s report eight World Cup season title trophies.

“I couldn’t be more grateful and proud,” she wrote, according to an International Luge Federation translation. “It’s always been my dream to end my career with two big smiles on my face.”

Geisenberger’s final competitors was the 2022 Winter Games, the place she grew to become the primary girl to win three Olympic singles luge titles.

She introduced in July 2022 that she was pregnant together with her second baby and would miss the 2022-23 season.

Geisenberger had deliberate to finish her profession after her third Olympics in 2018, then returned from childbirth for the 2020-21 season, when she gained her eighth and ultimate World Cup season title.

A promising youth skier, she obtained an invite to an introduction to sledding course by means of her elementary faculty at age 9.

Geisenberger later gained a medal in all seven of her Olympic occasions when together with the group relay, which debuted in 2014: three golds every in singles and the relay, plus a singles bronze in her Olympic debut in 2010.

She is the one girl to enter not less than seven Winter Olympic occasions in any sport and win a medal in all of them.

Germany fared nicely with out her final season. Julia Taubitz gained her second consecutive World Cup season title. Anna Berreiter gained the world championship.

Taubitz, Berreiter and Dajana Eitberger swept the highest three spots at worlds and within the World Cup season standings.