Stephanie Storp

Stephanie Storp (born November 28, 1968 in Braunschweig ) is a former German athlete who was one of the world's best shot putters from the late 1980s to the late 1990s . Her greatest achievement is winning the bronze medal at the World Athletics Championships in 1997.

Successes in detail

• 1985 - Junior European Championships: 3rd place (17.45 m)
• 1986 - European Championships : 11th place in the shot put (18.45 m), 10th place in the discus throw (56.46 m)
• 1986 - Junior World Championships: 2nd place (18.20 m)
• 1989 - European Indoor Championships : 1st place (20.30 m)
• 1990 - European Championships : 7th place (18.88 m)
• 1992 - Olympic Games , Barcelona: 7th place (19.10 m)
• 1996 - Olympic Games , Atlanta: 6th place (19.06 m)
• 1997 - World Championships : 3rd place (19.22 m)

Overview of the successes at the German Championships:

year	placement	Placement (hall)
1986	3	2
1987	3	2
1988	2	3
1989	2	2
1990	2	2
1991	2	1
1992	2
1993	2	1
1994	1
1995	3
1996	3	3
1997	2	1
1998	2

Stephanie Storp still holds the Lower Saxony record in the shot put with 20.36 m and is second in the discus throw with 58.28 m.

After the athletics summer season 1997, Stephanie Storp played basketball with the second division team SpVgg Halchter / Linden ( Wolfenbüttel ) and achieved promotion with her. In 1999 she attempted a comeback , but it was unsuccessful without reaching her previous length. In 2001 she ended her sports career due to health problems.

Storp initially started for the Braunschweig athletics community and then moved to VfL Wolfsburg (coach: Rudi Schwarz). In her playing days she was 1.94 m tall and weighed 95 kg.

For her services to sport in Lower Saxony , she was accepted into the Lower Saxony Sports Honor Gallery of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History in 1998.

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005. 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.

Web links

• Stephanie Storp in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )