Discus weight olympics
Discus throw olympics.
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Gabriele Reinsch Biography
Gabriele Reinsch is one of the most popular and richest Athletics Competitor who was born on September 23, 1963 in Cottbus, Brandenburg, Germany.
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Gabriele “Gabi” Reinsch (born 23 September 1963, in Cottbus) is a German track and field athlete. She represented East Germany in the 1988 Olympic Games in discus throw.
On 9 July 1988 at the East Germany – Italy tournament in Neubrandenburg she set a new world record with a throw of 76.80 metres (252.0 ft).
This was 2.24 metres (7 ft 4 in) further than the previous record, set by the Czechoslovakian Zdenka Šilhavá, and 2.72 metres (8 ft 11 in) further than the world record for men (men discus weight is 2 kilograms while women discus weight is 1 kilogram) set by Jürgen Schult (DDR) 6 June 1986.
Reinsch’s record still stands (the East German Martina Hellmann had in fact thrown 76.92 metres (252.4 ft) and 78.14 metres (256.4 ft), both on 6 September 1988, but these came in an unofficial eve