Ilke Wyludda

Olympic athlete

1969 –

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Who is Ilke Wyludda?

Ilke Wyludda is a former discus thrower from Germany.

She set eleven junior records at discus throw, and became junior world champion. Between 1989 and 1991 she recorded 41 successive wins until beaten by Tsvetanka Khristova at the 1991 World Championships. Wyludda never won the world championships, but she became Olympic champion in 1996.

In early January 2011 Wyludda revealed in Bild that she had to have her right leg amputated because of Sepsis.

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Born
Mar 28, 1969
Leipzig
Nationality
  • Germany
Lived in
  • Leipzig

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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