Linda Stahl

Linda Stahl, born on 2 October 1985, is a retired German track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. She won gold at the 2010 European Athletics Championships in Barcelona with a then personal best throw of 66.81 metres, finished third at the Europeans in 2012 and took the bronze medal at the Olympics in London with a season's best throw of 64.91 metres. In 2013 she was fourth at the World Championships in Moscow with 64.78 metres, and in 2014 she took bronze at the Europeans in Zürich after leading the competition until the fifth round, improving her personal best to 67.32 metres. She grew up in Blomberg, studied medicine at the University of Cologne and represented the sports club TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen, which she joined in 2003 from LG Lippe-Süd, training with Steffi Nerius under coach Helge Zöllkau.