Marianne Werner

Marianne Werner
Olympic medal record
Women’s Athletics
Competitor for  West Germany
Silver 1952 Helsinki Shot Put
Competitor for Germany Germany
Bronze 1956 Melbourne Shot Put

Marianne Werner (née Schulze Entrup born January 4, 1924 in Dülmen[1]) is a retired West German athlete who mainly competed in the shot put events.

Werner competed for West Germany in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland in the Women's Shot Put, where she won the silver medal. Four years later she returned with the United Team of Germany to Melbourne for the 1956 Summer Olympics where she won the bronze medal one place behind Soviet Galina Zybina for the second Olympics and eventual winner, another Soviet Tamara Tyshkevich.

References

  1. ^ sports-reference


Awards
Preceded by
Germany Wiltrud Urselmann		 German Sportswoman of the Year
1958		 Succeeded by
Germany Marika Kilius
v · d · eEuropean Champions in Women's Shot Put

 1938: Hermine Schröder (GER)  •  1946: Tatyana Sevryokova (URS)  •  1950: Anna Andreyeva (URS)  •  1954: Galina Zybina (URS)  •  1958: Marianne Werner (FRG)  •  1962: Tamara Press (URS)  •  1966: Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)  •  1969: Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)  •  1971: Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)  •  1974: Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)  •  1978: Ilona Slupianek (GDR)  •  1982: Ilona Slupianek (GDR)  •  1986: Heidi Krieger (GDR)  •  1990: Astrid Kumbernuss (GDR)  •  1994: Vita Pavlysh (UKR)  •  1998: Vita Pavlysh (UKR)  •  2002: Irina Korzhanenko (RUS)  •  2006: Natallia Mikhnevich (BLR)  •  2010: Nadzeya Astapchuk (BLR)



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