Kirsten Bolm - 12.78 clocking in Ulm - German Champs (© Bongarts / Getty Images)
German sprint hurdler Kirsten Bolm has announced the end of her career. The 33-year-old found it too difficult to motivate herself again for a comeback after a couple of illness and injury setbacks, which started back in spring 2007. Bolm is a student of psychology at Heidelberg University.
The World Junior champion from 1994 had her best moment at senior level, when she took the silver medal at the European Championships in Gothenburg in 2006. At the World Championships she had been fourth in 2005.
Bolm also won three bronze medals over 60m Hurdles at the European Indoors in 2002, 2005 and 2007.
She ran her personal best of 12.59 seconds for 100m Hurdles winning the London Grand Prix Meeting at Crystal Palace in 2005.
Jörg Wenig for the IAAF