Olympian and influencer Alica Schmidt announces major change in track career for 2025 season

I”It’s been quite a year. It was filled with so many highlights and I made some memories that will last forever: from the world relays in the Bahamas, where we qualified the mixed relay for the Olympics to the European championships in Rome, where we qualified the women’s 4x400m for Paris to the German nationals and of course: THE OLYMPICS,” she wrote

Schmidt added that she had planned in 2022 that she would run 800m after the Paris Olympics. And after a good experience running the distance at the Internationales Nordthüringer Leichtathletikmeeting, she decided to make the move.

“After Paris I tried something new and ran a 800m & 600m and really enjoyed pushing out of my comfort zone. Back in 2022, I decided that I wanted to give the 800m a shot after the Paris Olympics, so now it means… I’m going for it next year. I‘m on my way to my first high altitude training camp where I’ll join an international 800m group to train alongside great athletes where I can learn a lot,” she added.