German runner Alica Schmidt suffers heartbreak at World Championships

Alica Schmidt, a German observe and subject star, is staying constructive after she and her group did not qualify for the ultimate on the World Athletics Championships this previous weekend following a fifth-place end within the 4×400 meter blended relay.

The 23-year-old athlete, who has been dubbed “the World’s Sexiest Athlete” by quite a lot of supporters and web sites, not too long ago took to Instagram to replicate on the heartbreak.

“Not the consequence we wished in yesterday‘s 4×4 blended relay and we all know that we’re able to much more,” Schmidt wrote Sunday alongside a photograph of herself at Hayward Area in Eugene, Oregon.

“However heads up and on to the subsequent one! 4x400m relay on Saturday subsequent week 🙏🏼 however I‘m grateful to be right here on my first world championships and acquire quite a lot of expertise.”

Schmidt appeared laser-focused Wednesday in a brand new health video that featured her weightlifting.

“The ultimate preparations for the weekend are achieved ✔️ 🔜 4x400m relay 💯,” she captioned the video on Instagram.

Previous to arriving in Oregon for the World Championships, Schmidt frolicked coaching in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Schmidt introduced final month that she was headed to the US to compete within the World Observe Championships.

“The previous few months, I’ve labored my ass off and I’m so completely satisfied that the laborious work paid off,” she wrote on Instagram on the time. “Actually I‘m so excited for the subsequent few weeks🔥☺️ this was one among my largest targets this yr and it nonetheless feels unreal 🥺.”

Previous to the World Championships, Schmidt competed at nationals in June, with the occasion happening at The Olympiastadion in Germany’s Olympiapark Berlin. She additionally took half within the Worldwide Leichtathletikeeting Assembly Anhalt 2022, a World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze Degree Sequence.

Schmidt mentioned final summer time that she was “taking a break” from observe and subject, unhappy with the result of her Tokyo Olympics run. She had traveled to the Summer time Video games however by no means acquired a possibility to compete. 

The German group was disqualified within the blended 4×400 meter relay for making contact with the Jamaican group. Schmidt additionally did not safe a spot within the preliminary 4×400 meter relays. 

Regardless of what unfolded, Schmidt mentioned in a Sept. 2021 Instagram put up that she was beginning “preparation” for 2022.

“Can‘t wait for brand spanking new challenges and pushing my limits,” she wrote on the time.

Past her prowess in observe and subject, Schmidt additionally dipped her toes into modeling final September when she walked in Milan Trend Week for Boss.