Micheline Ostermeyer biography
Micheline Ostermeyer, (born December 23, 1922, Berck-sur-Mer, France—died October 17, 2001, close to Rouen), French athlete who received gold medals within the shot put and the discus throw on the 1948 Olympic Games in London. She was additionally an achieved live performance pianist.
Ostermeyer’s past love was music, and at age 14 she enrolled on the Paris Conservatory of Music. After World War II broke out, she returned to her household house in Tunisia. There she competed in native and worldwide athletic occasions by way of the French Athletic Association. Her worldwide athletics debut, on the 1946 European championships, was notable for her second-place end within the shot put. After the struggle, Ostermeyer re-entered the conservatory and targeted once more on her music schooling. In the months earlier than the London Games, Ostermeyer was approached by the French Olympic staff and requested to compete within the discus occasion. She accepted. Leading as much as the Games, she break up her time between her two passions, working towards the piano 5 to 6 hours through the day, adopted by 5 to 6 hours of observe observe within the evenings. Ostermeyer graduated with excessive honours from the conservatory simply three months earlier than the Olympics.
The 1948 Olympics in London had been the primary Games through which the ladies’s shot put was a medal occasion. With groups from Russia and East Germany not in attendance although they had been on the time preeminent in throwing occasions, Ostermeyer’s shot put of 45 ft 11/2 inches (13.75 metres) simply received the gold medal. Her discus throw of 137 ft 6 inches (41.92 metres) additionally received a gold medal. She earned a bronze medal within the excessive bounce, her closing occasion on the 1948 Games.
After the Olympics Ostermeyer turned her consideration again to music. She loved a protracted and profitable profession as a soloist and trainer. Some critics dismissed her musical expertise due to her athletic prowess, and for years she wouldn't play music by Franz Liszt as a result of she felt his work was “too sportif.”