Claudia Losch
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nation | Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | January 10, 1960 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Wanne-Eickel , Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 180 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 84 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
job | Optician | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Best performance | 22.19 m (23 August 1987 in Hainfeld ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | resigned | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
End of career | 1992 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
- Claudia Losch in the database of World Athletics (English)
- sporting-heroes.net: Profile of Claudia Losch (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b sport-komplett.de: Athletics - German Championships (shot put - women)
- ↑ sport-komplett.de: German Halls - Athletics - Championships (shot put - women)
- ^ "The great Olympia Lexicon", Sport-Bild from June 19, 1996, p. 42
- ↑ Singler & Treutlein: Doping in top-class sport 3rd revised. Edition. Meyer & Meyer, Aachen 2006.
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SURNAME | Losch, Claudia |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German shot putter and Olympic champion |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1960 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wanne-Eickel |