Marianne Adam Explained

Birth Date:	19 September 1951
Birth Place:	Luckenwalde, Brandenburg, East Germany
Height:	1.83 m
Weight:	85 kg
Headercolor:	lightsteelbLue
Sport:	athletics
Event:	Shot put
Club:	SC Dynamo Berlin
Pb:	21.86 m (1979)
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Marianne Adam (born 19 September 1951 in Luckenwalde, Brandenburg) is a retired shot putter who competed for East Germany in the 1970s. She was born in Luckenwalde. She was a member of SC Dynamo Berlin. She won the bronze medal at the 1974 European Athletics Championships, and at the European Indoor Championships she won one gold medal (1975), one silver medal (1979) and two bronze medals (1972, 1974).

Her personal best throw was 21.86 metres, which puts her sixth in the all-time performers list. She held the shot put world record from 6 August 1975 to 3 July 1976.^[1]

Career highlights

• 1971, European Indoor Championships: fourth place (17,49 metres - 17,48 - 17,26 - 16,54 - 17,10 - 17,40)
• 1972, European Indoor Championships: bronze medal (18,30 - 17,95 - 17,81 - 17,75 - x - 17,87)
• 1972, Olympic Games: fifth place (18,75 - x - 18,58 - 18,94 - 18,91 - 18,71)
• 1974, European Indoor Championships: bronze medal (19,35 - 18,68 - 19,04 - 18,66 - 19,70 - 19,37)
• 1974, European Championships: silver medal (20,43 - 20,18 - 19,86 - x - 20,09 - 20,42)
• 1975, European Indoor Championships: gold medal (18,86 - 20,05 - 19,30 - 19,19 - 19,55 - 19,94)
• 1976, Olympic Games: fourth place (20,55 - x - x - x - 18,15 - 19,50)
• 1979, European Indoor Championships: silver medal (19,86 - 19,99 - 20,14 - 19,47 - 19,69 - 20,11)

Notes and References

1. Web site: 12th IAAF World Championships In Athletics: IAAF Statistics Handbook. Berlin 2009. . IAAF Media & Public Relations Department . Monte Carlo . Pages 546, 646–7 . 2009 . 5 August 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110629134819/http://www.iaaf.org/mm/document/competitions/competition/05/15/63/20090706014834_httppostedfile_p345-688_11303.pdf . 29 June 2011 .