Kathrin Neimke

Kathrin Neimke
nation	GDR
birthday	July 18, 1966
place of birth	Magdeburg ,  GDR
size	180 cm
Weight	91 kg
job	policewoman
Career
discipline	Shot put
society	SC Magdeburg
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 1 × World championships 0 × 1 × 1 × Indoor world championships 1 × 0 × 0 × European championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games silver 1988 Seoul Shot put bronze 1992 Barcelona Shot put  World championships silver 1987 Rome Shot put bronze 1993 Stuttgart Shot put  Indoor world championships gold 1995 Barcelona Shot put  European championships bronze 1990 split Shot put

Kathrin Neimke (born July 18, 1966 in Magdeburg ) is a former German athlete and Olympic medalist who was one of the world's best shot putters in the 1980s and 1990s .

Career

Neimke started for the GDR until 1990 . Her greatest successes are the two Olympic medals that she won at successive games: the silver medal at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul and the bronze medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona . She was awarded the Silver Patriotic Order of Merit for her success at the Seoul Olympics .; She also received the Silver Laurel Leaf for winning the bronze medal on June 23, 1993.

Further placements

• 1991, World Championships : 8th place
• 1994, European Championships : 6th place (18.94 m)
• 1995, World Championships : 4th place
• 1996, Olympic Games 7th place

Kathrin Neimke started for SC Magdeburg and trained with Klaus Schneider . She is 1.80 m tall and weighed 95 kg in her active days. She has a degree in business administration and until the end of her sports career she had a job as a reproduction photographer for a daily newspaper. Then she went to the state riot police of Saxony-Anhalt.

Web links

• Kathrin Neimke in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , 12./13. November 1988, p. 4
2. ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V., VIBSS: The Federal President and his tasks in the field of sport: ... on June 23, 1993, Federal President von Weizsäcker awarded ... disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the 1992 Olympic and Paralympic Games with the Silver bay leaf from ....