Grit hammer

Grit Hammer (born Haupt ; born June 4, 1966 in Saalfeld / Saale ) is a former German shot putter and weightlifter .

She competed for the GDR at the 1990 European Indoor Championships in Glasgow and won bronze in the shot put with 19.53 m behind Claudia Losch and Natalja Lissowskaja . Astrid Kumbernuss took fourth place three centimeters behind her . At the European Indoor Championships in 1992 she was seventh with 17.89 m, in 1994 she was fifth with 18.58 m.

At the World Indoor Championships in Barcelona in 1995 , she finished fourth with 19.02 m behind Russian Larissa Peleschenko , German Kathrin Neimke and American Connie Price-Smith . However, Peleschenko was subsequently disqualified for doping, and Grit Hammer received the bronze medal.

Under her maiden name Grit Haupt, she achieved her personal best in 1987 with 20.72 m. As a shot putter, she was second in the GDR championships in 1987 and second in the German championships in 1994.

Grit Hammer won her only German championship title not as a track and field athlete, but in 1993 in the top weight class of weightlifters. At the 1994 European Weightlifting Championships she was fourth.

The 1.80 m tall athlete weighed well over 90 kg when she was active. With the discus she reached 65.96 m in 1984. She started for SC Motor Jena until 1990 . After the reunification she joined the athletics community LAC Quelle .

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898-2005. 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 (published by Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft )

Web links

• Grit Hammer in the database of World Athletics (English)