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Martina Hellmann

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Martina Helga Hellmann (née Opitz; born 12 December 1960) is a retired German track and field athlete who represented East Germany. She was the Olympic champion in the discus throw at the 1988 Summer Olympics. She also won the World Championship in that event in 1983 and again in 1987. Born in Leipzig, Saxony, Hellmann was sixteen years old when she began participating in the event. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Martina Hellmann is the 1,518th most popular athlete (down from 778th in 2019), the 5,147th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,744th in 2019) and the 133rd most popular German Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Martina Hellmann ranks 1,518 out of 6,025Before her are Jutta Heine, Finn Haunstoft, Jiří Lanský, Sylvi Saimo, Károly Takács, and Tatyana Prorochenko. After her are Miklós Ambrus, Josef Kloimstein, Takashi Ishimoto, Judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's 66 kg, Siegfried Brietzke, and Alberto Winkler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Martina Hellmann ranks 352Before her are Vladimir Salnikov, Moshe Kahlon, Elsa Cayat, Romas Ubartas, John Billingsley, and Robert J. Sawyer. After her are Arnaud Desplechin, Hans Pflügler, Valentin Yordanov, Michel Gill, Craig Sheffer, and Rob Bowman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Martina Hellmann ranks 5,150 out of 7,253Before her are Theo Helfrich (1913), Nick Menza (1964), Arthur Schnabel (1947), Arno Bieberstein (1886), Jutta Heine (1940), and Klaus Wunder (1950). After her are Lothar Späth (1937), Bernd Mayländer (1971), Manfred Manglitz (1940), Siegfried Brietzke (1952), Curt Backeberg (1894), and Katerina Tikhonova (1986).

Among ATHLETES In Germany

Among athletes born in Germany, Martina Hellmann ranks 133Before her are Rolf Danneberg (1953), Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck (1936), Herbert Schade (1922), Arthur Schnabel (1947), Arno Bieberstein (1886), and Jutta Heine (1940). After her are Siegfried Brietzke (1952), Ernst Krebs (1906), Martha Genenger (1911), Ilona Gusenbauer (1947), Heinz Fütterer (1931), and Hans Liesche (1891).