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Martina Hellmann

1960 - Today

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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 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2024). Martina Hellmann is the 1,493rd most popular athlete (down from 756th in 2024), the 5,150th 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 1,493 out of 6,025. Before her are Jutta Heine, Finn Haunstoft, Jiří Lanský, Sylvi Saimo, Károly Takács, and Tatyana Prorochenko. After her are Miklós Ambrus, Josef Kloimstein, Takashi Ishimoto, Siegfried Brietzke, Alberto Winkler, and János Urányi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Martina Hellmann ranks 352. Before 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 5,153 out of 7,253. Before 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).

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Among ATHLETES In Germany

Among athletes born in Germany, Martina Hellmann ranks 133. Before 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).

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