Marlene Ahrens

Marlene Ahrens
Marlene Ahrens (2013)
Full name	Marlene Ahrens Easter Day
nation	Chile
birthday	July 27, 1933
place of birth	Concepción
size	176 cm
Weight	70 kg
date of death	17th June 2020
Career
discipline	Javelin throw
Best performance	50.38 m
Medal table
Olympic games silver 1956 Melbourne 50.38 m  Pan American Games gold 1959 Chicago 45.38 m gold 1963 São Paulo 49.93 m South American Championships silver 1954 São Paulo 41.68 m gold 1956 Santiago de Chile 48.73 m gold 1958 Montevideo 43.85 m gold 1961 Lima 42.85 m gold 1963 Cali 44.67 m
last change: August 13, 2013

Marlene Ahrens Ostertag (born July 27, 1933 in Concepción ; † June 17, 2020 ) was a Chilean athlete who competed in the javelin . In the second half of the 1950s and the first half of the 1960s, she was the dominant South American athlete in her discipline and won four continental championships in a row. In addition, she secured two gold medals at Pan American Games and was the first female javelin thrower in South America to win these competitions.

In 1956 she represented her country at the Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia , where she won the silver medal with a personal best of 50.38 meters.

Marlene Ahrens belonged to the German minority of Chile, the so-called Chile-Germans .

Web links

• Marlene Ahrens in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary for Marlene Ahrens. Retrieved June 18, 2020 .