Michael Friedrich Möllenbeck (12 December 1969 – 2 November 2022) was a German

discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field sport in which the participant athlete throws an oblate spheroid weight (object), weight called a discus in an attempt to mark a further distance than other competitors. It is a ...

er. Möllenbeck's greatest achievements were two World Championship bronze medals, and his bronze at the 2005 World Championships was especially welcome as Germany struggled to win medals. His personal best throw was 67.64 metres, achieved in June 2002 in

Dortmund Dortmund (; ; ) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the List of cities in Germany by population, ninth-largest city in Germany. With a population of 614,495 inhabitants, it is the largest city ...

. This ranks him seventh among German discus throwers, behind Jürgen Schult,

Lars Riedel Lars Peter Riedel (born 28 June 1967) a former German discus thrower. Riedel has the seventh longest discus throw of all-time with a personal best of 71.50 m. Biography Riedel began his discus career in the former East Germany, German Democrati ...

Wolfgang Schmidt Wolfgang Schmidt may refer to: * Wolfgang Schmidt (athlete) Wolfgang Schmidt (born 16 January 1954) is a German former track and field athlete who competed for East Germany at the 1976 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal in the discus thr ...

Armin Lemme Armin Lemme (28 October 1955 – 1 August 2021) was a track and field athlete from East Germany who competed in the men's discus throw event at the 1980 Summer Olympics. He set his personal best (68.50 metres) in 1982. Lemme was born in Packebusc ...

Hein-Direck Neu Hein-Direck Neu (13 February 1944, Bad Kreuznach – 14 April 2017, Wiesbaden) was a German discus thrower. In his early international career, Neu prominently won the silver medals at both the 1967 Summer Universiade and the 1970 Summer Universiad ...

and

Alwin Wagner Alwin Josef Wagner (born 11 August 1950 in Melsungen, Hessen) is a West Germany, West German discus thrower and weight lifter, who was affiliated with ''University Sportclub Mainz'' (USC Mainz). He finished sixth at the 1984 Summer Olympics. In ...

. Möllenbeck married fellow discus thrower Anja Gündler in 1996. He died on 2 November 2022, at the age of 52.

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* * * 1969 births 2022 deaths People from Wesel Athletes from Düsseldorf (region) German male discus throwers Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Germany World Athletics Championships medalists European Athletics Championships medalists SC Magdeburg athletes 20th-century German sportsmen {{Germany-discus-bio-stub