Claudia Losch

Claudia Losch
nation	Germany
birthday	January 10, 1960
place of birth	Wanne-Eickel ,  Germany
size	180 cm
Weight	84 kg
job	Optician
Career
Best performance	22.19 m (23 August 1987 in Hainfeld )
status	resigned
End of career	1992
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × Indoor world championships 1 × 0 × 1 × European Indoor Championships 3 × 2 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold 1984 Los Angeles 20.48 m  Indoor world championships gold 1989 Budapest 20.45 m bronze 1987 Indianapolis 20.14 m  European Indoor Championships gold 1986 Madrid 20.48 m gold 1988 Budapest 20.39 m gold 1990 Glasgow 20.64 m silver 1984 Gothenburg 20.23 m silver 1985 Piraeus 20.59 m
last change: January 15, 2017

Claudia Losch (born January 10, 1960 in Wanne-Eickel ) is a former German athlete and Olympic champion .

Career

The shot putter dominated her discipline in West Germany in the 1980s. At the German Championships she won the title ten times in uninterrupted order from 1982 to 1991, and in 1992 she was third. This makes her the German record champion , ahead of athletes like Astrid Kumbernuss and Eva Wilms . Claudia Losch was also successful in the hall and took first place at the German Championships in 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988 and 1989.

At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , she won the gold medal in the shot put with a single centimeter in front of the Romanian Mihaela Loghin (silver) and the Australian Gael Martin (bronze).

Claudia Losch had a competition weight of 84 kg with a height of 1.80 m.

From 1983 Claudia Losch competed for LAC Quelle Fürth ; she won her first German championship title in 1982 in the jersey of LG Bayer Leverkusen . From 1987 to 1988 she trained for the LC Olympiapark in Munich . She ended her career in 1992 and has worked as an optician ever since.

There are numerous doping suspicions about Christian Gehrmann's group of throwers , who also led Claudia Losch to her Olympic victory in 1984 , which were voiced by the shot putter Petra Leidinger , among others . Claudia Losch herself refused a doping control in 1990.

Web links

Commons : Claudia Losch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Claudia Losch in the database of World Athletics (English)
• sporting-heroes.net: Profile of Claudia Losch (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} sport-komplett.de: Athletics - German Championships (shot put - women)
2. ↑ sport-komplett.de: German Halls - Athletics - Championships (shot put - women)
3. ^ "The great Olympia Lexicon", Sport-Bild from June 19, 1996, p. 42
4. ↑ Singler & Treutlein: Doping in top-class sport 3rd revised. Edition. Meyer & Meyer, Aachen 2006.