Elisangela Adriano

Elisângela Maria Adriano (born July 27, 1972 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian shot putter and discus thrower, whose personal best put is 19.30 metres, achieved in July 2001 in Tunja. Her personal best discus throw is 61.96 metres, achieved in May 1998 in São Leopoldo. In 1999 she was suspended by the IAAF for a two-year period, but she was later early reinstated. She competed in both the discus and shot put at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics, without reaching the final in either event. She also competed in the discus at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2009 World Championships in Athletics.

She won the discus and shot put events at the 2009 Brazilian national championships. She holds the South American record in both events. She won her seventh continental discus title at the 2009 South American Championships in Athletics with a championship record of 61 metres. She also won the shot put silver medal behind Chilean Natalia Ducó. She added the 2009 Lusophony Games shot put gold to her list of honours the following month. In the 2010 season, she won the discus gold at the 2010 Ibero-American Championships and later gained her fourteenth national title in the discus at the Troféu Brasil de Atletismo.

She is the Brazilian record holder in the discus throw and also holds the shot put national record both indoors and out.




stats
Full name: Adriano Maria Elisângela
Date of birth: 27/07/1972
Place of birth: São Paulo (SP)
Height: 1.80 m
Weight: 96 kg
Residence: São Paulo (SP)
Club: BM & F / Sao Caetano
Proof: pitches for weight and hard
Participations in Olympics: Atlanta and Athens-1996-2004
Campaign in Athens: 18th place in shot put and 13th place in the discus thrower
Major achievements: Gold (disc) at the Winnipeg Pan-1999, silver (weight) in the Santo Domingo Pan-2003
Record: South American weight (19.30 m) and disk (61.96 m)

Vivian Chukwuemeka

Vivian Chukwuemeka (born May 4, 1975) is a Nigerian shot putter. She also competes in discus throw and hammer throw, but not on world level.

She competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the World Championships in 2003 and 2005 without reaching the finals. She won a silver medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

Her personal best throw is 18.43 metres, achieved in April 2003 in Walnut. This is the African record.

She graduated from Azusa Pacific University in 2006 with a Bachelor of Social Work.

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Full name: Vivian Peters-Chukwuemeka
Gender: Female
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
Weight: 225 lbs (102 kg)
Born: May 4, 1975 in Kwale, OviaSouth-West, Edo, Nigeria
Affiliations: NCSDC, Abuja (NGR)
Country: NGR Nigeria

Tamara Press

Tamara Natanovna Press (born 10 May 1937 in Kharkiv, Ukraine) is a former Soviet shot putter and discus thrower in the 1960s. She competed for VSS Trud. Together with her younger sister Irina Press, who was also a track athlete, she was half of the "Press Sisters", a duo who won almost everything that there was to win in track and field, except for distance running.

At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, Tamara won the gold medal in the shot put and the silver medal in the discus. At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, she won the gold medal in both events. In the shot put and in the discus throw she set six world records.

Tamara was also successful in the European championships. In 1958 in Stockholm she was third in the shot put, and in 1962 in Belgrade she was the European champion in the shot put as well as the discus.

Questions regarding gender
It was said of both sisters that their gender could not be determined. Some even thought that they might be hermaphrodites — still another opinion was that they were being injected with male hormones in order to make them stronger. Detractors called them the "Press Brothers". After gender verification for all international sporting female events was made mandatory in 1966 (curtailed in Sydney in 2000), both vanished from the sporting scene.

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Full name: Tamara Natanovna Press
Gender: Female
Height: 5'11" (180 cm)
Weight: 225 lbs (102 kg)
Born: May 10, 1937 in Kharkiv, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Affiliations: Trud Leningrad, St. Petersburg (RUS)
Country: URS Soviet Union

Darya Pishchalnikova

Darya Vitalyevna Pishchalnikova is a female discus thrower from Russia. Her personal best throw is 65.78 metres, achieved when she won the silver medal at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, August 2007.

Pishchalnikova is the sister of Bogdan Pishchalnikov. She was selected to represent Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but on 31 July, she was suspended from competition due to doping test irregularities, along with several other high-profile Russian female athletes.

On 20 October 2008, it was announced that Pishchalnikova was one of seven Russian athletes receiving a two-year doping ban for manipulating drug samples


Personal information
Full name :Darya Vitalyevna Pishchalnikova
Date of birth :July 19, 1985 (1985-07-19)
Place of birth :Astrakhan Oblast , Russia
Height :1.89 m (6 ft 2+1⁄2 in)
Weight :95 kilograms (210 lb)
Personal best(s) :discus – 65.78 m (2007)

Achievements
Year /Tournament /Venue /Result /Extra
2001 /World Youth Championships /Debrecen, Hungary /2nd
2002 /World Junior Championships /Kingston, Jamaica /8th
2004 /World Junior Championships /Grosseto, Italy /2nd
2005 /Universiade /İzmir, Turkey /6th
2006 /European Championships /Gothenburg, Sweden /1st /65.55 m = PB
2006 /World Cup /Athens, Greece /4th
2007 /World Championships /Osaka, Japan /2nd /65.78 m = PB

Franka Dietzsch

Franka Dietzsch (born January 22, 1968 in Wolgast) is a German discus thrower best known for winning gold medals at three World Championships in Athletics. She won the 1998 European Championships and 1999 World Championships, but did not return to the international podium until her win at the 2005 World Championships. At the age of 39 she won her third world championship title in 2007 in Osaka. This victory makes her the oldest athlete ever to win a gold medal in an athletic world championship. After spending a year away from the field due to health problems, she returned to competition at the Wiesbaden meet. She finished in second place with 61.49 metres, remaining focused on defending her discus World Champion at the Berlin World Championships.

Her personal best throw is 69.51 metres, achieved in May 1999 in Wiesbaden. This result ranks her ninth among German discus throwers, behind Gabriele Reinsch, Ilke Wyludda, Diana Gansky-Sachse, Irina Meszynski, Gisela Beyer, Martina Hellmann-Opitz, Evelin Jahl and Silvia Madetzky.



Personal data
Name: Franka Dietzsch
Born: 22/1/1968
Size / Weight: 183 cm / 92 kg
Occupation: Bank employee
Discipline: Discus Throw
Club: SC Neubrandenburg since 1/1/1991
Previous clubs: ASG Koserow (to 1981) and SC Empor Rostock (1982 - 1990)
pers Best performance: 69,51 m (1999) 69.51 m (1999

Achievements
Year / Tournament /Venue /Result
1986 / World Junior Championships /Athens, Greece /2nd
1993 / World Championships /Stuttgart, Germany /8th
1994 / European Championships /Helsinki, Finland /9th
1995 / World Championships /Gothenburg, Sweden /7th
1998 / European Championships /Budapest, Hungary /1st
1998 / IAAF World Cup /Johannesburg, South Africa /1st
1999 / World Championships /Seville, Spain /1st
2000 / Olympic Games /Sydney, Australia /6th
2001 / World Championships /Edmonton, Canada /4th
2003 / World Athletics Final /Monte Carlo, Monaco /6th
2004 / World Athletics Final /Monte Carlo, Monaco /7th
2005 / World Championships /Helsinki, Finland /1st
2005 / World Athletics Final /Monte Carlo, Monaco /2nd
2006 / European Championships /Gothenburg, Sweden /2nd
2006 / World Athletics Final /Stuttgart, Germany /1st
2006 / IAAF World Cup Athens, /Greece /1st
2007 / World Championships /Osaka, Japan /1st

Martina Hellmann

Martina Hellmann, née Opitz , is a retired German track and field athlete who represented East Germany. She was the Olympic champion in the discus throw at the 1988 Summer Olympics. She also won the World Championship in that event in 1983 and again in 1987.

Hellmann was sixteen years old when she began participating in the event. In 1977 she gave the participants' oath at the opening of the East German gymnastics and sport festival. That summer she set the world record for 16-year-olds with a throw of 55.00 meters. Her career was plagued by sickness and injury until 1983 when she became the surprise world champion. She was unable to compete at the 1984 summer Olympic games due to her country's boycott.

On 6 September 1988 she threw the discus 78.14 meters, further than anybody had ever thrown it before. The throw came though in an unofficial training tournament in the East German training camp at Kienbaum, therefore the throw was not eligible to be considered a world record. Her personal best throw was 72.92 metres, achieved in August 1987 in Potsdam. This result ranks her tenth on the world all-time list and sixth among German discus throwers, behind Gabriele Reinsch, Ilke Wyludda, Diana Gansky-Sachse, Irina Meszynski and Gisela Beyer.

After the 1992 Summer Olympics, where she was eliminated during qualification, she retired. She later was the head of a sports group of the insurance company AOK and became a manager at a cabaret in Leipzig.

Hellmann represented the SC DHfK Leipzig sport club and trained with Rolf Wittenbecher and Bernhard Thomas. During her active career she was 1.78 meters tall and weighed 81 kilograms.

statics
Full name: Martina Helga Hellmann (Opitz-)
Gender: Female
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
Weight: 187 lbs (85 kg)
Born: December 12, 1960 in Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany
Affiliations: SC DHfK, Leipzig (GER)
Country: GDR East Germany, GER Germany

Achievements
Year /Competition /Venue /Position /Notes
1983 /World Championships /Helsinki, Finland /1st /68.94 m
1986 /European Championships /Stuttgart, West Germany /3rd /68.26 m
1987 /World Championships /Rome, Italy /1st /71.62 m
1988 /Olympic Games /Seoul, South Korea /1st /72.30 m
1990 /European Championships /Split, FR Yugoslavia /3rd /66.66 m

Diana Gansky

Diana Gansky, née Sachse (born December 14, 1963 in Bergen auf Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), is a German track and field athlete. She won an Olympic medal and was one of the world's best discus throwers. She represented East Germany and was the 1986 European champion (with her birth name Sachse). In 1987 and 1988 she was second in both the world championship and the Olympic games.

At 17 years old she was the 1981 junior European champion, but she needed a few more years before she was able to compete with the already strong discus team of East Germany. She stood in the shadows of Martina Hellmann (who she only beat at the 1986 European championship). For a long time she trained with Gabriele Reinsch the world record holder since July 1988 when she threw 76.80 meters. At the end of the 2004 season she is the only woman in the world who has thrown further then 70 meters at 24 international tournaments.

She represented ASK Vorwärts Potsdam and trained with Lothar Hillebrand. During her active career she was 1.84 meters tall and weighed 92 kilograms. She studied sports science, and at the time of German reunification she became a self-employed physiotherapist. Later she became active on the senior sports circuit and became the 2002 European champion. Gansky set her personal best (74.08 metres) on June 20, 1987 in Karl-Marx-Stadt; an East German record until July 9, 1988.

statics
Full name: Diana Gansky (Sachse-)
Gender: Female
Height: 6'0" (184 cm)
Weight: 203 lbs (92 kg)
Born: December 14, 1963 in Bergen auf Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Affiliations: ASK Vorwärts Potsdam, Potsdam (GER)
Country: GDR East Germany

Achievements
Year /Competition /Venue /Position /Notes
1981 /European Junior Championships /Utrecht, Netherlands /1st /
1986 /European Championships /Stuttgart, West Germany /1st /71.36 m
1987 /World Championships /Rome, Italy /2nd /70.12 m
1988 /Olympic Games /Seoul, South Korea /2nd /71.88 m

Ilke Wyludda

Ilke Wyludda (born March 28, 1969 in Leipzig) is a former discus thrower from Germany.

She set eleven junior records at discus throw and even two at shot put, and became junior world champion. Between 1989 and 1991 she recorded 41 successive wins, only to be beaten by Tzvetanka Khristova at the 1991 World Championships. Wyludda never won the world championships, but she became Olympic champion in 1996.
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

Information
Set eleven junior records at discus and two at shot put. At discus won EC 1990 and 1994, EJ 1985 and 1987, GWG 1990, GP 1990, 1992, 1994 and 1996, ECp 1989, 1991, 1994 and 1996. At shot put won EJ 1987 (2nd in 1985). She was unbeaten from 1989 to World Championships 1991, after 41 successive wins.

statics
Full name: Ilke Wyludda
Gender: Female
Height: 6'0" (183 cm)
Weight: 201 lbs (91 kg)
Born: May 28, 1969 in Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany
Affiliations: SV Halle, Halle an der Saale (GER) / LAC Chemnitz, Chemnitz (GER)
Country: GER Germany

Achievements
Year / Competition / Venue /Position /Notes
1987 / World Championships / Rome, Italy /4th / 68.20 m
1989 / IAAF World Cup / Barcelona, Spain / 1st /
1990 / European Championships / Split, Yugoslavia / 1st /
1991 / World Championships / Tokyo, Japan / 2nd/
1994 / European Championships / Helsinki, Finland / 1st /
1994 / IAAF World Cup London,/ Great Britain / 1st /
1995 / World Championships / Gothenburg, Sweden / 2nd /
1996 / Summer Olympics /Atlanta, United States /1st /
1996 / IAAF Grand Prix Final /Milan, Italy /1st / 64.74 m
2000 / Olympic Games S/ydney, Australia /7th /63.16 m

Zdeňka Šilhavá

Zdeňka Bartoňová-Šilhavá is a retired female track and field athlete from the Czech Republic, who set the world record in the women's discus throw on 26 August 1984 with a distance of 74.56 metres. That mark still is the national record.

Šilhavá represented Czechoslovakia at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, finishing in sixth place (67.84 metres) in the women's discus, and in eleventh place in the women's shot put event (18.86 metres).

statics
Full name: Zdeňka Bartoňová-Šilhavá (-Kusá)
Gender: Female
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
Weight: 187 lbs (85 kg)
Born: June 15, 1954 in Krnov, Moravskoslezský, Czech Republic
Affiliations: RH Praha
Country: TCH Czechoslovakia, CZE Czech Republic
Sport: Athletics

Achievements
Year / Competition / Venue / Position / Notes
1983 / World Championships / Helsinki, Finland / 6th / 64.32 m
1987 / World Championships / Rome, Italy / 6th / 64.82 m
1996 / Olympic Games / Atlanta, United States / 19th / 59.24 m

Gabriele Reinsch

Gabriele Reinsch (September 23, 1963 in Cottbus) is a German track and field athlete. She represented East Germany in the Olympic games in the discus throw.

On July 9, 1988 at the East Germany - Italy tournament in Neubrandenburg she set a new world record with a throw of 76.80 meters. This was 2.24 meters further than the previous record, set by the Czechoslovakian Zdenka Šilhavá, and 2.72 meters further than the world record for men (who throw a discus weighing twice as much) set by Jürgen Schult (DDR) 6 June 1986. Reinsch's record still stands (as of the 2008 season) (the East German Martina Hellmann had in fact thrown 76.92 meters and 78.14 meters, both on September 6, 1988 but these came in an unofficial event and could not be counted as the world record.)

Reinsch began competing at the age of 14 and tried at first the high jump and shot put, even placing second in the shot put at the 1981 junior European championships. In 1982 she switched to the discus.

During the course of her world record setting season, she bettered her personal best by 9.62 meters, from 67.18 meters, (her personal best in 1987) to the record setting 76.80 meters , This was 2.72 meters further than the world record for men (who throw a discus weighing twice as much).

statics
Sex : W
Weight :88.00
Height :1.88
Date of Birth :23/09/1963
Place of birth : Cott


International highlights

* 1981, Junior European championship: 2nd place in shot put (16.70 - 15.90 - 15.31 - 16.53 - 17.03 - 16.37)
* 1987, Universiade: 2nd place (64.12 m)
* 1988, Summer Olympics: 7th place in the discus (67.26 - 66.50 - 63.30 - 65.88 - 66.40 - DQ)
* 1990, European championship: 4th place in the discus (DQ - 63.46 - 64.30 - DQ - 66.08 - 65.06)

Reinsch belonged to the Cottbus sport club until 1985 and then from 1986 to the ASK Potsdam. She trained with Lothar Hillebrand. During her competitive years she was 1.84 meters tall and weighed 88 kilograms.

Natalya Lisovskaya

Natalya Lisovskaya (Russian: Наталья Лисовская; born 16 July 1962 in Alegazy, Bashkir ASSR) is a former Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the shot put. Lisovskaya trained at Spartak in Moscow.

She competed for the USSR in the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea where she won the gold medal. Lisovskaya holds the world record in the women's shot put with a throw of 22.63 meters, which she achieved on June 7, 1987 in Moscow, Russia. She also has the four farthest throws of all time by a female shot putter.

Lisovskaya is married to men's hammer world record holder Yuriy Sedykh and has one daughter, Alexia. They live in Paris, France.

Statics
Sex : Woman
Weight : 105.00
Height : 1.86
Date of Birth : 16/07/1962
Place of birth : Alegazy; Bashkir ASSR

Medal record
Women's Athletics Competitor for the Soviet Union

Olympic Games
Gold 1988 Seoul Shot put

World Championships
Gold 1987 Rome Shot put
Silver 1991 Tokyo Shot put

World Indoor Championships
Gold 1985 Paris Shot put
Gold 1987 Indianapolis Shot put

European Championships
Silver 1990 Split Shot put

IAAF World Cup
Gold 1985 Canberra Shot put

Personal Best - Outdoor
Shot Put 22.63
Discus Throw 62.28