Martina Willing

Martina Monika Willing ( born October 3, 1959) is a German track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw, discus throw and shot put. It is both blind and a paraplegic and therefore starts in disabled sports in the classification group F56, the F for the English name field ( en.: field) stands.

Life

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Willing since birth suffered already at a visual disturbance. At the age of 21, she became blind completely. At the 1994 Winter Paralympics in Lillehammer, Norway, she fell in the final cross-country single race and had to undergo treatment for a knee operation. A triggered by the anesthetic blood flow in the spinal cord led thereby to paraplegia.

Martina Willing has worked as a biologist, but is now retired.

Sports career

In 1981, she found dabbling in disability sport - at that time still in the rankings C4 and F11 - and won seven years later in Seoul, her first Paralympic medal. In Barcelona in 1992 they secured the title in the javelin and placed it to one today (September 2012) current world record. She needed almost a year to cope with their mental accident and the additional disability from 1994. However, she managed to continue their sporting achievements. So they could win in Atlanta again the gold medal in the javelin already at the next Paralympic Summer Games 1996 - in their new classification group she was in the competition, the only blind athlete. It was followed by numerous medals, including a renewed title in the javelin in Beijing in 2008, for another four sweeps of the Summer Paralympics and also at the World Athletics Championships disabled Willing heard regularly since 1998 to be the best in its three disciplines.

In addition, she returned in the winter sports and is riding Ski vehicle with companions.

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