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Medal record
Claudia Losch
Women's Athletics
Competitor for West Germany
Olympic Games
Gold	1984 Los Angeles	Shot Put
World Indoor Championships
Gold	1989 Budapest	Shot Put

Claudia Losch (born January 10, 1960 in Wanne-Eickel) is a German track and field athlete.

Losch won the German indoor championship in the shot put in 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988, and 1989. She won the German championship from 1982 through 1990, nine times in a row.

At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles she won the gold medal ahead of Romanian Mihaela Loghin, who won the silver, and Gael Martin from Australia who won the bronze.

Olympic Champions in the Women's Shot Put

1948: Micheline Ostermeyer • 1952: Galina Zybina • 1956: Tamara Tyshkevich • 1960: Tamara Press • 1964: Tamara Press • 1968: Margitta Gummel • 1972: Nadezhda Chizhova • 1976: Ivanka Hristova • 1980: Ilona Slupianek • 1984: Claudia Losch • 1988: Natalya Lisovskaya • 1992: Svetlana Krivelyova • 1996: Astrid Kumbernuss • 2000: Yanina Karolchyk • 2004: Yumileidi Cumbá • 2008: Valerie Vili

v • d • e World Indoor Champions in Women's Shot Put

1985 – 1987: Natalya Lisovskaya (URS) • 1989: Claudia Losch (FRG) • 1991: Sui Xinmei (CHN) • 1993: Svetlana Krivelyova (RUS) • 1995: Kathrin Neimke (GER) • 1997: Vita Pavlysh (UKR) • 1999: Svetlana Krivelyova (RUS) • 2001: Larisa Peleshenko (RUS) • 2003: Irina Korzhanenko (RUS) • 2004: Vita Pavlysh (UKR) • 2006: Natalya Khoroneko (BLR) • 2008: Valerie Vili (NZL)

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