- Marianne Werner
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Olympic medal record Women’s Athletics Competitor for West Germany
Silver 1952 Helsinki Shot Put Competitor for Germany
Bronze 1956 Melbourne Shot Put Marianne Werner (née Schulze Entrup born January 4, 1924 in Dülmen[1]) is a retired West German athlete who mainly competed in the shot put events.
Werner competed for West Germany in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland in the Women's Shot Put, where she won the silver medal. Four years later she returned with the United Team of Germany to Melbourne for the 1956 Summer Olympics where she won the bronze medal one place behind Soviet Galina Zybina for the second Olympics and eventual winner, another Soviet Tamara Tyshkevich.
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Awards Preceded by
Wiltrud Urselmann
German Sportswoman of the Year
1958Succeeded by
Marika Kilius
European Champions in Women's Shot Put 1938: Hermine Schröder (GER) • 1946: Tatyana Sevryokova (URS) • 1950: Anna Andreyeva (URS) • 1954: Galina Zybina (URS) • 1958: Marianne Werner (FRG) • 1962: Tamara Press (URS) • 1966: Nadezhda Chizhova (URS) • 1969: Nadezhda Chizhova (URS) • 1971: Nadezhda Chizhova (URS) • 1974: Nadezhda Chizhova (URS) • 1978: Ilona Slupianek (GDR) • 1982: Ilona Slupianek (GDR) • 1986: Heidi Krieger (GDR) • 1990: Astrid Kumbernuss (GDR) • 1994: Vita Pavlysh (UKR) • 1998: Vita Pavlysh (UKR) • 2002: Irina Korzhanenko (RUS) • 2006: Natallia Mikhnevich (BLR) • 2010: Nadzeya Astapchuk (BLR)
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