Kathrin Neimke
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Born | Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, East Germany |
July 18, 1966 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Weight | 91 kg (201 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Shot put | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | SC Magdeburg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Klaus Schneider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 21.21 m (1987) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kathrin Neimke (July 18, 1966 in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt), is a German track and field athlete. During the 1980s and 1990s she was one of the world's best in the shot put. Until 1990 she represented East Germany. She won two Olympic medals, the first a silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, and the second a bronze at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
Neimke represented SC Magdeburg and trained with Klaus Schneider. She is 1.80 meters tall and during her active career she weighed 95 kilograms. She has a degree in sales and at the end of her sporting career she had a job as reproduction photographer at a daily newspaper. After that she went to the Saxony-Anhalt police.
International competitions
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes |
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Representing East Germany | ||||
1987 | Universiade | Zagreb, Yugoslavia | 2nd | 20.07 m |
World Championships | Rome, Italy | 2nd | 21.21 m | |
1988 | European Indoor Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 3rd | 20.20 m |
Olympic Games | Seoul, South Korea | 2nd | 21.07 m | |
1990 | European Championships | Split, Yugoslavia | 3rd | 19.96 m |
Representing Germany | ||||
1991 | World Indoor Championships | Seville, Spain | 6th | 18.77 m |
World Championships | Tokyo, Japan | 8th | 18.83 m | |
1992 | Olympic Games | Barcelona, Spain | 3rd | 19.78 m |
World Cup | Havana, Cuba | 3rd | 17.97 m | |
1993 | World Indoor Championships | Toronto, Canada | 8th | 18.50 m |
World Championships | Stuttgart, Germany | 3rd | 19.71 m | |
1994 | European Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 6th | 18.94 m |
1995 | World Indoor Championships | Barcelona, Spain | 1st | 19.40 m |
World Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | 4th | 19.30 m | |
1996 | Olympic Games | Atlanta, United States | 7th | 18.92 m |
References
- Sports Reference
- Kathrin Neimke profile at IAAF
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- 1966 births
- Living people
- People from Magdeburg
- East German shot putters
- Female shot putters
- East German female athletes
- German shot putters
- German female athletes
- Olympic athletes of East Germany
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Germany
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- World Championships in Athletics medalists
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- World Championships in Athletics athletes for East Germany
- World Championships in Athletics athletes for Germany