Luise Krüger (January 11, 1915 – June 13, 2001) was a female,
German
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athlete, who competed mainly in the javelin. She won the bronze medal for her native country at the
1934 Women's World Games
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1936 Summer Olympics
The 1936 Summer Olympics ( German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad ( German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi- ...
held in
Berlin
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,
Germany
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, behind teammate
Tilly Fleischer. She was born and died in
Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...
.
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1915 births
2001 deaths
German female javelin throwers
Olympic silver medalists for Germany
Olympic athletes of Germany
Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics
European Athletics Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
Women's World Games medalists
Athletes from Dresden
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