Irina Meszynski
German discus thrower
イリーナ・メスジンスキー
- Born
- 24 March 1962, East Berlin
- Citizenship
- Germany, East Germany
- Sport
- athletics
- Discipline
- discus throw
- Occupation
- athletics competitor, judoka
- Height
- 176 cm (5 ft 9 in)
- Weight
- 98 kg (216 lb)
Irina Meszynski (born 24 March 1962) is a retired East German discus thrower.
On 17 August 1984 Meszynski set a world record in women's discus throw at boycott inspired Friendship Games of 73.36 meters. Her record lasted barely a week before it was bested by Zdeňka Šilhavá with a mark that puts Šilhavá as equal to the number 2 thrower in history. Today, Meszynski's result is enough to occupy the sixth place on the world all-time list and a fourth place on the German all-time list behind Gabriele Reinsch, Ilke Wyludda and Diana Gansky-Sachse.
Her career highlights include a gold medal with 60.30 m at the 1979 European Junior Championships, an eighth place with 63.78 m at the 1982 European Championships in Athletics and a fourth place with 65.20 m at the 1986 European Championships in Athletics. She represented the sports team TSC Berlin and became East German champion in 1982.
She weighed 97 kg, and stood 1.76 m tall.
Awards and honours
- Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver
External links
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Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.