Marianne Buggenhagen

Marianne Buggenhagen
Medal record
Paralympic athletics
Representing  Germany
Paralympic Games
1992 Barcelona Pentathlon - PW3-4
1992 Barcelona Discus throw - THW5
1992 Barcelona Javelin throw - THW5
1992 Barcelona Shot put - THW5
1996 Atlanta Discus throw - F53-54
1996 Atlanta Shot put - F53-54
2000 Sydney Shot put - F55
2004 Athens Shot put - F54/55
2008 Beijing Discus throw - F54-56
2004 Athens Discus throw - F54/55
2016 Rio de Janeiro Discus throw - F55
1996 Atlanta Javelin throw - F53-54
2008 Beijing Shot put - F54-56
2012 London Shot put - F54-56
IPC World Championships
2015 Doha Discus throw F55
IPC European Championships
2014 Swansea Discus - F55
2016 Grosseto Discus - F55
2016 Grosseto Shot put - F55
2014 Swansea Shot put - F53/54/55

Marianne Buggenhagen (born 26 May 1953 in Ueckermünde, East Germany) is a Paralympian athlete from Germany competing mainly in throwing events.[1][2]

Career history

She first competed in the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona, Spain. There she won four gold medals in discus, javelin, shot putt and pentathlon. Then at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, United States she again won the shot and discus and won a bronze in the javelin. The following games in 2000 in Sydney, Australia she yet again won the shot putt. At her fourth games in 2004 she won her fourth consecutive shot putt title and won a silver in the discus throw. Marianne was one of the few athletes to have competed in Barcelona to also compete in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, there she failed to win a fifth shot putt managing only to win the bronze medal, but did manage to win the discus throw, her twelfth medal in all of which 9 had been gold.

Notes

  1. ↑ "BUGGENHAGEN Marianne". IPC. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
  2. ↑ "Athlete Profile: BUGGENHAGEN Marianne". paralympic.org. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
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