Astrid Kumbernuss

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Olympic medal record
Women's Athletics
Gold	1996 Atlanta	Shot put
Bronze	2000 Sydney	Shot put

Astrid Kumbernuss (born February 5, 1970 in Grevesmühlen) is a former German female shot putter and discus thrower.

Her career started at the SC Neubrandenburg sports club. Her greatest successes were gold medals at the 1995, 1997 and 1999 World Championships in Athletics, and the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. In 1997, she was awarded Athlete of the Year. In 1998, she gave birth to her son Philip, and retired from her sports career in 2005.

[edit] Achievements

Year	Tournament	Venue	Result	Event
1990	European Championships	Split, Yugoslavia	1st	Shot put
1992	European Indoor Championships	Genoa, Italy	3rd	Shot put
1993	World Championships	Stuttgart, Germany	6th	Shot put
1993	IAAF / Mobil Grand Prix Final	London, England	2nd	Shot put
1994	European Championships	Helsinki, Finland	2nd	Shot put
1994	European Indoor Championships	Paris, France	1st	Shot put
1994	IAAF World Cup	London, England	3rd	Shot put
1995	IAAF / Mobil Grand Prix Final	Monaco	1st	Shot put
1996	European Indoor Championships	Stockholm, Sweden	1st	Shot put
1996	Olympic Games	Atlanta, Georgia	1st	Shot put
1997	World Indoor Championships	Paris, France	2nd	Shot put
1997	World Championships	Athens, Greece	1st	Shot put
1997	IAAF Grand Prix Final	Fukuoka, Japan	1st	Shot put
1999	World Championships	Sevilla, Spain	1st	Shot put
1999	IAAF Grand Prix Final	München, Germany	2nd	Shot put
2000	European Indoor Championships	Ghent, Belgium	3rd	Shot put
2000	Olympic Games	Sydney, Australia	3rd	Shot put
2001	World Championships	Edmonton, Alberta	6th	Shot put
2001	IAAF Grand Prix Final	Melbourne, Australia	1st	Shot put
2002	European Championships	Munchen, Germany	4th	Shot put
2003	IAAF World Cup in Athletics	Madrid, Spain	3rd	Shot put
2003	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, England	3rd	Shot put
2003	SPAR European Cup	Firenze	1st	Shot put
2003	IAAF World Athletics Final	Monaco	4th	Shot put

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: Nadezhda Chizhova | 1976: Ivanka Hristova | 1980: Ilona Slupianek | 1984: Claudia Losch | 1988: Natalya Lisovskaya | 1992: Svetlana Krivelyova | 1996: Astrid Kumbernuss | 2000: Yanina Korolchik | 2004: Yumileidi Cumbá

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Preceded by Svetlana Masterkova

Women's European Athlete of the Year 1997

Succeeded by Christine Arron