Lena Urbaniak (born 31 October 1992 in Schwäbisch Gmünd) is a German athlete specialising in the

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 ...

. She won the gold medal at the

2015 Summer Universiade ) , Nations participating = 143 , Athletes participating = 12,885 , Events = 272 in 21 sports , Opening ceremony = , Closing ceremony = , Officially opened by = Park Geun-hye , Athlete's Oath = Kim Seong-yeon and Kim Kuk-young , Judge's Oath = K ...

. Her personal bests in the event are 18.02 metres outdoors (Kassel 2016) and 18.32 metres indoors (Karlsruhe 2016). In her youth she also competed in gymnastics,

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

and

karate (; ; Okinawan language, Okinawan pronunciation: ) is a martial arts, martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom. It developed from the Okinawan martial arts, indigenous Ryukyuan martial arts (called , "hand"; ''tii'' in Okinawan) under the ...

Competition record

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1992 births Living people Sportspeople from Stuttgart (region) German female shot putters Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Germany Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) FISU World University Games gold medalists for Germany Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade 21st-century German women 21st-century German people People from Schwäbisch Gmünd {{Germany-shotput-bio-stub