Margitta Gummel
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| Olympic medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Women’s track and field | |||
| Gold | 1968 Mexico City | Shot Put | |
| Silver | 1972 Munich | Shot Put | |
Margitta Gummel (born June 29, 1941 in Leipzig) is a former athlete from East Germany, who won the gold medal in the shot put event at the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City, Mexico.
She returned four years later in Munich for the 1972 Summer Olympics to defend her title but narrowly failed losing out to Nadezha Chizhova and winning the silver.
| Olympic champions in women's shot put |
|---|
| 1948: Micheline Ostermeyer | 1952: Galina Zybina | 1956: Tamara Tyshkevich | 1960: Tamara Press | 1964: Tamara Press | 1968: Margitta Gummel | 1972: Nadezha Chizhova | 1976: Ivanka Hristova | 1980: Ilona Slupianek | 1984: Claudia Losch | 1988: Natalya Lisovskaya | 1992: Svetlana Krivelyova | 1996: Astrid Kumbernuss | 2000: Yanina Korolchik | 2004: Yumileidi Cumba |
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