Ilke Wyludda

Ilke Wyludda was a German discus thrower, born on 28 March 1969, who died in Halle on 1 December 2024 at the age of 55. She set eleven junior records in the discus and two in the shot put, and became junior world champion. Between 1989 and 1991 she recorded 41 successive wins, until she was beaten by Tsvetanka Khristova at the 1991 World Championships. She never won a world title, but she became Olympic champion in 1996. Her discus personal best was 74.56 metres, set in 1989. In early 2011 she had to have her right leg amputated because of sepsis, then returned to athletics and entered para-sport competitions. In 2012 she represented Germany at the London Paralympics, becoming the first German athlete to have represented her country at both Olympic and Paralympic Games, and in 2014 she won bronze in the F57 discus and silver in the shot put at the IPC European Championships in Swansea.