Martina Willing

Martina Willing is a German Paralympic athlete who competes in field events and has taken part in eight Paralympic Games. She was born in 1959 and is both blind and paraplegic. Until 1994 she competed in the F11 classification for vision impaired athletes. Complications during knee surgery after a fall at the Lillehammer Paralympics led to her paralysis, and she then returned to competition as a seated thrower. She has competed and medalled at all seven summer Games from Barcelona in 1992 to Rio in 2016 as well as at the 1994 winter Games in Lillehammer. As of May 2017 she held world records in the F11 and F56 javelin and in the P11 pentathlon. She received the Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award in 2000 and worked as a biologist before retiring.