Claudia Losch (born January 10, 1960 in Wanne-Eickel) is a German track and field athlete. January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Athletics, also known as track and field or track and field athletics, is a collection of sport events. ...

Losch won the German indoor championship in the shot put in 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988, and 1989. She won the German championship from 1982 through 1990, 9 times in a row. Shot put The shot put is an athletics (track and field) event involving putting (throwing in a pushing motion) a heavy metal ball, also called the shot, as far as possible. ...

At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles she won the gold medal ahead of Romanian Mihaela Loghin who won the silver and Gael Martin from Australia who won the bronze. The Games of the XXIII Olympiad were held in 1984 in Los Angeles, California, United States. ...