Monday, July 1, 2024 -A Pennsylvania grandmother put up an impressive showing at the US Olympics’ Team trials over the weekend when she finished in third place in a race walking event.
Michelle Rohl, 58, clinched third place in
the 20,000-kilometer race walking event in Springfield, Oregon on Saturday with
a sharp time of 1:42:17.
Her impressive outing comes more than 20
years after she first walked away from the gruelling sport.
Rohl retired to homeschool her five
children — who are now all grown, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
It also comes three months after her first
grandchild was born.
"She’s an excited grandma," her
husband Michael Rohl told the newspaper leading up to the race. "We get
pictures every day of our little grandson."
Rohl’s competed in three Olympics already –
1992, 1996, and 2000 – but she never came close to taking third place.
Her top finish in those years was in 1996
when she took part in the 10K walk and finished in 14th place.
The four-time US champion in the 20K
trained daily as she prepared for the trials even as she suffered a concussion
last year and ongoing knee aches, the Inquirer reported.
She reportedly busted her chin a few weeks ago after she tripped and fell during a race that led up to the Olympic trials on Saturday, June 29.
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