Birgit Pohl

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Birgit Pohl (22 April 1954 – 21 June 2022) was a German Paralympian athlete competing mainly in throwing events.

Career

She competed in her first Paralympics in 1996 in Atlanta, United States, where she won a gold medal in the F32–33 shot put. She returned to the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Australia where she won a gold in the F33–34 discus throw.

After an unsuccessful 2004 games in Athens, Greece, failing to win a medal in any of her three events, discus, shot or javelin, she competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. There she won a silver medal in the women's F32–34/52–53 shot put event and a bronze in the T33/34/52/53 javelin throw.

Pohl announced her retirement from sports in 2012.{{cite news |last=Rabel |first=Andreas |date=18 January 2012 |title=Paralympicssiegerin Birgit Pohl hört auf |url=https://www.otz.de/regionen/gera/paralympicssiegerin-birgit-pohl-hoert-auf-id217999123.html |work=Ostthüringer Zeitung |language=German |access-date=22 June 2022}} She died on 21 June 2022 at the age of 68.{{cite news |date=22 June 2022 |title=Paralympic-Sportlerin Birgit Pohl verstorben |url=https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/thueringen/ost-thueringen/gera/paralympic-birgit-pohl-tod-100.html |work=Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk |language=German |access-date=22 June 2022}}