Astrid Kumbernuss

Astrid Kumbernuss
nation	Germany
birthday	5th February 1970
place of birth	Grevesmühlen
size	186 cm
Weight	90 kg
Career
discipline	Shot put
Best performance	21.22 m
society	SC Neubrandenburg
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 1 × World championships 3 × 0 × 0 × European championships 1 × 1 × 0 × Indoor world championships 0 × 1 × 1 × European Indoor Championships 2 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold Atlanta 1996 20.56 m bronze Sydney 2000 19.62 m  World championships gold Gothenburg 1995 21.22 m gold Athens 1997 20.71 m gold Seville 1999 19.85 m European championships gold Split 1990 20.38 m silver Helsinki 1994 19.94 m  Indoor world championships silver Paris 1997 19.92 m bronze Birmingham 2003 19.86 m European Indoor Championships gold Paris 1994 19.44 m gold Stockholm 1996 19.79 m bronze Ghent 2000 19.12 m

Astrid Kumbernuss (born February 5, 1970 in Grevesmühlen ) is a former German shot putter and Olympic champion .

Life

Astrid Kumbernuss began in Waren (Müritz) with the then BSG Lokomotive Waren / Rethwisch with athletics and was delegated to SC Neubrandenburg in 1982. At the beginning of her career she was also active as a discus thrower , where her greatest success was the silver medal at the Junior World Championships in 1988 . Astrid Kumbernuss won her first world title in the shot put in Gothenburg in 1995 . She was 1.18 meters in front of the runner-up Huang Zhihong . That is the greatest advantage ever achieved in the Olympic Games or World Championships. She celebrated her greatest sporting success by winning the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. In 1995 and 1996 Astrid Kumbernuss seemed unbeatable, she won 51 competitions in a row. At the 2000 Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the shot put. For this success she received the silver laurel leaf from Federal President Johannes Rau . She won further gold medals at the 1997 World Championships in Athens and at the 1999 World Championships in Seville . In 1997 she was voted German athlete of the year and - as the only German athlete to date (as of 2012) - was voted Europe's athlete of the year . On September 3, 2005, she announced her retirement from competitive sports. She started for SC Neubrandenburg .

Astrid Kumbernuss was 1.86 m tall and weighed 90 kg. In 1998 she became the mother of a son and lives in Neustrelitz . The trained retail saleswoman has been working for Barmer GEK since the end of her career in 2005 .

Further successes in the shot put

• 1989 Junior European Champion
• 1992 German indoor champion, third place in the European indoor championships
• 1993 third place German championships, sixth place world championships
• 1994 German indoor champion, European indoor champion, third place in German championships
• 1995 German champion, European Cup winner
• 1996 German champion , German indoor champion, European indoor champion, European cup winner
• 1997 German Champion, Grand Prix overall winner, European Cup winner, Sportswoman of the year
• 1999 German champion, overall Grand Prix winner
• 2000 German champion, European Cup winner
• 2001 sixth place at the World Indoor Championships in Lisbon
• 2002 German indoor champion, German champion, fourth place at the European championships in Munich
• 2003 German indoor champion, European cup winner, German champion
• 2004 German champion

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898-2005. 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 (published by Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft )
• Volker Kluge, Olaf W. Reimann:  Kumbernuss, Astrid . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition, volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Astrid Kumbernuss in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Astrid Kumbernuss in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• German EM faces (III): Astrid Kumbernuss from EM in Berlin electrified

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.esv-waren.de/vereinsorganisation.html
2. ^ Winner list of the 2000 Olympic Games, athletics, women, shot put
3. ↑ NTV of February 2, 2001: ... Federal President Rau ... has awarded the medal winners of the Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games the Silver Laurel Leaf.
4. ↑ Christian Fuchs: Jessica Ennis is Europe's Athlete of the Year , www.leichtathletik.de October 4, 2012