(Reuters) – Four-times Olympic champion Charles Hamelin introduced the curtain down on his profession on the quick monitor world championships in Montreal on Sunday and stated there was no higher strategy to end than racing in entrance of his family and friends.
Hamelin, who gained his fourth Olympic gold within the males’s 5,000 metres relay in Beijing earlier this yr, led Canada to bronze in the identical occasion on Sunday in his remaining race.
The 37-year-old then took to the ice to skate a farewell lap along with his daughter in his arms.
“It means rather a lot to me. She is a bit of older, however possibly she did not perceive what was occurring. But I’m certain she loved the second with me. It was one of many issues I wished to do, and I’m glad it occurred right here in Montreal,” Hamelin stated.
“It is among the greatest issues that occurred to me. The probability to complete at residence, with my household within the stands, is the best feeling. It is sort of like several Olympics I went to.”
Hamelin’s first Olympic medal was a silver within the 5,000m relay in Turin in 2006. He gained gold in the identical occasion 4 years later in Vancouver in addition to a person gold within the 500m.
He additionally gained gold within the 1,500m at Sochi in 2014 and a 5,000m relay bronze in Pyeongchang 4 years later.
Hamelin gained 14 world titles, and claimed the general males’s title on the 2018 World Championships in Montreal.
(Reporting by Aadi Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
