Swenn-Larsson to miss World Cup openers with leg fracture

By Published On: October 2nd, 2015Comments Off on Swenn-Larsson to miss World Cup openers with leg fracture

The start of Swedish World Cup technical skier Anna Swenn-Larsson‘s season has been put on hold after she suffered a fracture of the lower leg and will miss the opening alpine races of the 2015-16 competition year. She hopes to return to racing in the middle of December in Are, the site of her career-first World Cup podium achieved last season.

During giant slalom training on Tuesday in Pitztal, Austria, Swenn-Larsson contacted the gate shaft with her lower leg. Initially it did not seem like a serious injury, but later that evening her knee began to swell. An MRI conducted at the hospital in Innsbruck indicated that Swenn-Larsson had a crack in the bone.

“A crack like this has a healing time of about six weeks. Anna gets no plaster (cast) but will go with crutches the first four weeks until she can begin to bear weight over the leg more,” said national team doctor Per Liljeholm.

“It was still a lucky misfortune, I’m glad that it’s just a crack and that there is a shorter setback in training,” noted Swenn-Larsson. “I hope that this will heal as planned and that I am back again by December.”

Swenn-Larsson departed the team’s training camp and returned home to Sweden yesterday.

Release courtesy of SSA

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