Ilke Wyludda (born 28 March 1969) is a

discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disk (mathematics), disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an classical antiqui ...

er from

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. She set eleven junior records at discus throw (and also two at

shot put The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" (throwing) a heavy spherical ball—the ''shot''—as far as possible. The shot put competition for men has been a part of the modern Olympics since their revival in 1896, and women's ...

), and became junior world champion. Between 1989 and 1991 she recorded 41 successive wins until beaten by

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at the 1991 World Championships. Wyludda never won the world championships, but she became Olympic champion in 1996. In early January 2011 Wyludda revealed in

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that she had to have her right leg amputated because of

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. After losing her leg she returned to athletics and began entering para-sport competitions. In 2012, she represented Germany at the London Paralympics becoming the first German athlete to have represented her country at both Olympic and Paralympic Games. In 2014, she entered the IPC European Championships in Swansea, taking the bronze medal in the F57 discus and silver in the shot put.

Personal bests

*Discus throw - 74.56 (1989) *Discus throw U23 - 74.56 (1989) WU23B *Discus throw Junior - 74,40 (1988) WJB *Discus throw Youth - 65,86 (1986) WYB *Shot put - 20.23 (1988) *Shot put U23 - 20,23 (1988) *Shot put Junior - 20,23 (1988) *Shot put Youth - 19,08 (1986) WYB

International competitions

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Wyniki Wyludda na stronie rzutyiskoki
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wyludda, Ilke 1969 births Living people Athletes from Leipzig East German female discus throwers East German female shot putters German female discus throwers German female shot putters German amputees Discus throwers with limb difference Olympic gold medalists for Germany Olympic athletes of Germany Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for East Germany World Athletics Championships athletes for Germany World Athletics Championships medalists European Athletics Championships medalists Paralympic athletes of Germany Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field) Goodwill Games medalists in athletics Competitors at the 1998 Goodwill Games Competitors at the 1990 Goodwill Games World Athletics U20 Championships winners