Marlene Ahrens

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Marlene Ahrens
Medal record
Women's Athletics
Competitor for  Chile
Olympic Games
Silver 1956 Melbourne Javelin throw
Pan American Games
Gold 1959 Chicago Javelin throw
Gold 1963 São Paulo Javelin throw

Marlene Ahrens Ostertag (born in Concepción, July 27, 1933) is a female Chilean athlete.[1] She won the silver medal in Javelin throw at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne with a distance of 50.38 metres. She remains the only Chilean woman to have won an Olympic medal.[2] She is the mother of the journalist Karin Ebensperger.

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