Marianne Buggenhagen

Marianne Buggenhagen
Medal record
Paralympic athletics
Representing  Germany
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place1992 BarcelonaPentathlon - PW3-4
Gold medal – first place1992 BarcelonaDiscus throw - THW5
Gold medal – first place1992 BarcelonaJavelin throw - THW5
Gold medal – first place1992 BarcelonaShot put - THW5
Gold medal – first place1996 AtlantaDiscus throw - F53-54
Gold medal – first place1996 AtlantaShot put - F53-54
Gold medal – first place2000 SydneyShot put - F55
Gold medal – first place2004 AthensShot put - F54/55
Gold medal – first place2008 BeijingDiscus throw - F54-56
Silver medal – second place2004 AthensDiscus throw - F54/55
Silver medal – second place2016 Rio de JaneiroDiscus throw - F55
Bronze medal – third place1996 AtlantaJavelin throw - F53-54
Bronze medal – third place2008 BeijingShot put - F54-56
Bronze medal – third place2012 LondonShot put - F54-56
IPC World Championships
Gold medal – first place2015 DohaDiscus throw F55
IPC European Championships
Gold medal – first place2014 SwanseaDiscus - F55
Gold medal – first place2016 GrossetoDiscus - F55
Silver medal – second place2016 GrossetoShot put - F55
Bronze medal – third place2014 SwanseaShot 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 put 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 put. At her fourth games in 2004 she won her fourth consecutive shot put 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 put 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.

Honours

There are two schools with her name. One in Buch, the other one in Darlingerode, near "Haus Oehrenfeld".

Notes

  1. ↑ "BUGGENHAGEN Marianne". IPC. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
  2. ↑ "Athlete Profile: BUGGENHAGEN Marianne". paralympic.org. Retrieved 28 October 2015.


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