Martina Willing

Martina Willing
Full name	Martina Monika Willing
nation	Germany
birthday	3rd October 1959 (age 60)
place of birth	Pasewalk ,  GDR
size	160 cm
Weight	57 kg
job	Bioenergetic / Physiotherapist
Career
discipline	Javelin and discus throw , shot put
society	BPRSV Cottbus , formerly: SC Potsdam , SG Stahl Brandenburg
Trainer	Ralf Paulo, before: Wilfried Melzer and Manfred Gembries
status	active
Medal table
Paralympic Games 3 × 5 × 6 × IPC world championships 4 × 7 × 3 × IPC European Championships 6 × 5 × 2 ×
Paralympic Games gold 1992 Barcelona Javelin throw silver 1992 Barcelona Discus throw bronze 1992 Barcelona Shot put silver 1994 Lillehammer 3 × 2.5 km cross-country relay bronze 1994 Lillehammer 7.5 km biathlon gold 1996 Atlanta Javelin throw bronze 1996 Atlanta Shot put bronze 1996 Atlanta Discus throw silver 2000 Sydney Shot put bronze 2004 Athens Shot put gold 2008 Beijing Javelin throw silver 2008 Beijing Shot put bronze 2012 London Javelin throw silver 2016 Rio de Janeiro Javelin throw IPC world championships gold 1998 Birmingham Javelin throw silver 1998 Birmingham Shot put silver 1998 Birmingham Discus throw silver 2002 Lille Shot put silver 2002 Lille Javelin throw bronze 2002 Lille Discus throw gold 2006 Assen Javelin throw silver 2006 Assen Discus throw bronze 2006 Assen Shot put silver 2011 Christchurch Javelin throw gold 2013 Lyon Shot put silver 2013 Lyon Discus throw gold 2015 Doha Javelin throw bronze 2017 London Javelin throw IPC European Championships gold 2003 Assen Discus throw gold 2003 Assen Shot put silver 2003 Assen Javelin throw gold 2005 Espoo spear gold 2012 Stadskanaal Javelin throw gold 2014 Swansea Javelin throw bronze 2014 Swansea Shot put gold 2016 Grosseto Javelin throw silver 2016 Grosseto Shot put bronze 2016 Grosseto Discus throw silver 2018 Berlin Shot put silver 2018 Berlin Discus throw silver 2018 Berlin Javelin throw
last change: October 22, 2019

Martina Monika Willing (born October 3, 1959 in Pasewalk , Neubrandenburg district , GDR ) is a German athlete who competes in the javelin , discus and shot put . Until 1994 she was in the starting class F11 , then in F56 . Willing is a multiple Paralympic winner, multiple world champion and European champion and has set numerous world records .

Life

Private

Willing has had a visual disorder since she was born . She became completely blind at the age of 21 . At the 1994 Winter Paralympics in Lillehammer , Norway , she fell in the final cross-country individual race and had to undergo knee surgery for treatment . Bleeding in the spinal cord triggered by the anesthetic injection led to paraplegia .

Martina Willing worked as a bioenergetic specialist, is retired and lives in Brandenburg an der Havel .

Sports career

In 1981, Willing found his way into disabled sports - at that time still in the classifications C4 and F11 -, started internationally for the GDR in 1985 and won her first Paralympic medal eleven years later in Barcelona . In 1992 in Barcelona she secured the javelin title and set a world record. It took her almost a year to psychologically cope with her accident and the additional handicap from 1994 onwards. However, she managed to continue her sporting successes. So she was able to win the gold medal in the javelin throw again at the following Paralympics in Atlanta in 1996 - in her new class F56 she was the only blind athlete in the competition. Numerous medals followed, including a Paralympic title in the javelin throw in Beijing in 2008 and other summer Paralympics. Also at the IPC World and European Championships , Willing has been one of the best in their three disciplines since 1998.

In addition, she also returned to winter sports, where she drives sit-down skis (ski sledges) with a companion.

At the Paralympics 2016 she won the silver medal in the javelin throw. For this she received the silver bay leaf on November 1, 2016.

In 2017 she won bronze in the javelin throw at the IPC World Championships in London .

In 2018 Willing won silver with a ball, discus and spear at the IPC European Championships in Berlin .

Club affiliations

Willing has been working for the Brandenburg Prevention and Rehabilitation Sports Association (BPRSV) in Cottbus since 2013 and was previously at SC Potsdam . Willing trained for many years at SG Stahl Brandenburg , where she is an honorary member.

Awards

• 2000: Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award
• 2001: Golden Band of the Sports Press

World records

Willing set numerous records. In 2018 she still held the world record in javelin throwing and the European records in discus throwing (24.23 m) and shot put (9.03 m).

discipline	place	Width / points	date
Shot put - F56	Berlin	8.92 m	June 16, 2012
Javelin Throw - F56	Berlin	24.03 m	June 13, 2008
Javelin Throw - F55	Bern	22.71 m	August 21, 1999
Javelin Throw - F11	Barcelona	38.62 m	September 6, 1992
Pentathlon - F11	Barcelona	2182 p	September 11, 1992

Web links

• Willing's profile on the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games website
• Portrait of Willing on the homepage of the International Paralympic Committee
• Martina Willing in the German Paralympic Team 2016
• Squad athletes - Martina Willing on the club side

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martina Willing , on: deutsche-paralympische-mannschaft.de, accessed October 1, 2018
2. ↑ Kaderathleten - Martina Willing at: bprsv-online.de, accessed October 1, 2018
3. ↑ Portrait of Willing , on: infostradasports.com, accessed October 1, 2018
4. ↑ Awarding of the silver bay leaf. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on November 23, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Berlin 2018 World Para Athletics European Champignonships - Official Results Book , on: paralympic.org, accessed September 28, 2018 (pdf 2.7 MB)