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Margitta Gummel

1941 - 2021

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Margitta Gummel (née Helmbold, 29 June 1941 – 26 January 2021) was a German Olympic gold medal-winning shot putter. She competed for the Unified German team in the 1964 Summer Olympics, East Germany in the 1968 Summer Olympics, and East Germany again at the 1972 Summer Olympics. She had a long rivalry with Nadezhda Chizhova of the Soviet Union. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Margitta Gummel is the 923rd most popular athlete (down from 190th in 2019), the 4,700th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,227th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular German Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Margitta Gummel ranks 923 out of 6,025. Before her are Eugène Grisot, Vanderlei de Lima, Renzo Minoli, Amelia Piccinini, Ahmet Ayık, and Marcel Hansenne. After her are Waldemar Baszanowski, Ruhi Sarıalp, Willie Steele, Rafael Chimishkyan, Ann-Britt Leyman, and Tommaso Lequio di Assaba.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Margitta Gummel ranks 434. Before her are Rafael Albrecht, Ileana Silai, Jacques Simon, Fernando Serena, Willi Fuggerer, and Christine Delphy. After her are Göran Therborn, José Antonio Zaldúa, Valeri Zolotukhin, Joseph Bessala, Mária Gulácsy, and Kurt Axelsson. Among people deceased in 2021, Margitta Gummel ranks 422. Before her are Rafael Albrecht, Issake Dabore, Tamara Rylova, Indira Nath, Barry Harris, and Dietmar Lorenz. After her are Uta Ranke-Heinemann, Revaz Gabriadze, Orlando Martínez, Antoninho, Darlene Hard, and Vladimir Korenev.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Margitta Gummel ranks 4,703 out of 7,253. Before her are Jörg Michael (1963), E. O. Plauen (1903), Walter Sedlmayr (1926), Willi Fuggerer (1941), Ludwig Abeille (1761), and Adolf Brand (1874). After her are Jacob Volhard (1834), Uta Ranke-Heinemann (1927), Georg Gehring (1903), Paula Mollenhauer (1908), Andreas Kunz (1946), and Oliver of Paderborn (1170).

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Among ATHLETES In Germany

Among athletes born in Germany, Margitta Gummel ranks 63. Before her are Ingrid Auerswald (1957), Dagmar Käsling (1947), Bernd Cullmann (1939), Inge Helten (1950), Maria Sander (1924), and Ludwig Stubbendorf (1906). After her are Paula Mollenhauer (1908), Andreas Kunz (1946), Ellen Streidt (1952), Gerd Wessig (1959), Frank Forberger (1943), and Manfred Kokot (1948).

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