Diana Gansky

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Medal record
Women’s Athletics
Competitor for Flag of the German Democratic Republic East Germany
Olympic Games
Silver 1988 Seoul Discus
World Championships
Silver 1987 Rome Discus

Diana Gansky, née Sachse (born December 14, 1963 in Bergen auf Rügen, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), is a German track and field athlete. She won an Olympic medal and belonged the world's best discus throwers in the world. 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.

[edit] Results

  • 1981, Junior-European championship: 1st place
  • 1986, European championship: 1st place (59.84 - 68.34 - 67.60 - 67.00 - 70.54 - 71.36)
  • 1987, World championship: 2nd place (66.64 - 67.50 - 70.12 - 68.78 - 65.42 - DQ)
  • 1988, Summer Olympics: 2nd place (65.58 - 66.14 - DQ - 65.82 - 71.88 - 68.08)
  • 2002, Senior European championship in Potsdam: 1st place in the 35 and over class (42.21 - 41.28 - 40.74 - 41.14 - 42.43 - 44.24)

Personal best: 74.08 on June 20, 1987 in Karl-Marx-Stadt (East German record until July 9, 1988)

Sporting positions
Preceded by
Flag of the Soviet Union Galina Savinkova		 Women's Discus Best Year Performance
1986 – 1987		 Succeeded by
Flag of the German Democratic Republic Gabriele Reinsch


This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.