Marianne Werner
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Representing  West Germany |
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1952 Helsinki | Shot Put |
Representing  Germany |
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1956 Melbourne | Shot Put |
Marianne Werner, née Schulze Entrup, later Ader (born 4 January 1924),[1] is a retired West German athlete who competed mainly in the shot put events. She was born in Dülmen. Werner competed for West Germany at the 1952 Summer Olympics, held in Helsinki, Finland, in the Women's Shot Put, where she won the silver medal. Four years later she returned with the United Team of Germany to Melbourne for the 1956 Summer Olympics where she won the bronze medal one place behind Soviet Galina Zybina for the second Olympics and eventual winner, another Soviet Tamara Tyshkevich.
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| Preceded by | German Sportswoman of the Year 1958 |
Succeeded by Marika Kilius |
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- 1924 births
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- West German shot putters
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of West Germany
- Olympic athletes of the United Team of Germany
- Olympic silver medalists for West Germany
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United Team of Germany
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- German athletics Olympic medalist stubs
