Claudia Losch

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Claudia Losch
Claudia Losch
Women's Athletics
Competitor for Flag of West Germany West Germany
Olympic Games
Gold Los Angeles 1984 Shot Put

Claudia Losch (born January 10, 1960 in Wanne-Eickel) is a German track and field athlete.

Losch won the German indoor championship in the shot put in 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988, and 1989. She won the German championship from 1982 through 1990, nine times in a row.

At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles she won the gold medal ahead of Romanian Mihaela Loghin, who won the silver, and Gael Martin from Australia who won the bronze.

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Olympic Champions in the 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 Karolchyk • 2004: Yumileidi Cumbá
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