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The 30-year-old from Upper Austria will compete in her first competition in 16 months in Sweden on Thursday. After a knee operation and a long regeneration period, Dadic now feels healthy again and fit to fight for a ticket to the Olympic Games in Paris this summer.
Austria’s 2020 Sportswoman of the Year has taken a break since her victory in the heptathlon in Talence on September 17, 2022. During her injury break, Dadic decided on a new path, changed the support team and moved to Sweden in the summer to join coach Vlado Petrovic’s team, which also includes the Swede Bianca Salming.
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After an intensive development program, the 2016 European Championship third-place finisher recently completed a training camp in Tenerife. The knee withstood the stress tests, so nothing stands in the way of a comeback.
A location assessment
“I’m really looking forward to my first competition. I’ve been away for a long time. On the one hand, the anticipation is enormous, but on the other hand, of course, I’m also nervous,” explained Dadic before her first assessment.
“I have to see how the competition goes and I have to see where I stand internationally. Now it’s about gaining competition practice and getting back to where I left off,” said the Upper Austrian.
In any case, the changes gave her positive impulses. “The training in the north worked really well from the start. I noticed from the first day that my knee and my performance had steadily improved. It’s really good to have a training partner like Bianca training in all seven disciplines with one of the best in the world,” she explained.
Several competitions planned
Dadic will initially compete in competitions in Sweden and then has the first complete pentathlon on the program in Tallinn on the first weekend in February and the Austrian indoor championships a week later.
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Whether we then go to the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow at the beginning of March depends on how the knee can cope with the stress of the competition.
The big goals in the spring are the European Championships in Rome in June and, above all, qualifying for Paris. “There is still enough time to gain self-confidence and collect important points with a view to qualifying for the Olympics,” says Dadic confidently.
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