Albanian sport in mourning, the former athlete of Tirana has passed away

2022-07-30 10:15:18, Sport CNA

A sad news today for Albanian sports. Zhaneta Karriqi passed away at the age of 67. One of the most prominent athletes in Albania, in athletics, closed her eyes forever after a few years of struggle with a serious illness. It is the friends of the deceased who have written on social networks announcing the terrible news.

Karriqi was a prominent athlete of the Tirana sports club in the years 75' - 85'. Her physique always stood out. But her friends describe her as a girl with a strong character, where she managed to solve everything individually. Her friend Linda Kalemi wrote about her death.

"Very few remember the athlete of the Tirana club, the golden-haired Zhona, Zhaneta Karriqi or bomba as men used to call her. Not for the short-lived sport, but for charisma, extravagance, or in short for her unique, provocative thighs and buttocks, for which Tirana boys were waiting on the street corners. How many couples have I seen fighting, how many tears have been shed from those thighs. Do you remember the trip to the coast, the beaches of Durrës, how the super bodies were watched? We women with wooden clogs paraded towards the Tortoise, while Zhona was barefoot: "Come on sister, let's go for a walk" and tied her hair behind her back. He hit the wet sand with giant steps of athletes.

I at the beginning of the flowering could not wait. I knew the blonde blonde would turn heads on the beach in our direction. And so it happened. I looked behind the dark glasses. As soon as the bomb went off, the men would rise from their tents towards us. I have many quarrels between couples in my memory. A short time since I got married quickly. Then the 90s spread us around the world like migratory birds. I in Istanbul, Zhona in Athens left, got married, was forgotten. However, every year you saw him on the beach again, but not on the tour, cross-legged in the poplars, with bags by his side, generous in the extreme. He distributed gifts and clothes to whoever had money. That's how life went, work hard and share it with the family of the world. But the bomb's big heart soon got tired. 67 years old, yesterday he rested forever. It did not withstand 3 knives in a year. How much your news hurt me. Rest in peace cousin", writes Kalemi on his Facebook.