Gisela Mauermayer was born on November 24, 1913 in Munich, Germany. Mauermayer first began participating in track and field competitions at age thirteen and started competing at the international level in 1930. Gisela won the gold medals in the both women's shot put and women's pentathlon as well as a silver medal in the women's discus throw at the Women's World Games in 1934. After establishing herself as a leading discus thrower in 1935 (she set eight successive world records in the women's discus throw from 1935 to 1936), Mauermayer won the gold medal in the women's discus throw at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Gisela went on to win a gold medal in the women's discus throw and a silver medal in the women's shot put at the 1938 European Championships. Moreover, Mauermayer from 1933 to 1942 won twenty German titles altogether in various athletic disciplines.A member of the Nazi party since 1932, Gisela was released from her teaching job in 1945. Mauermayer subsequently studied to be a biologist and later became chief librarian at the Zoological State Library in Munchen, Germany from 1954 to 1975. In addition, Gisela served as the supervisor of the women's Olympic team at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Finland and, beginning in 1967, was a long term member of the German National Olympic Committee. Her sister Trude Hermine was also a shot putter. Mauermayer died at age 81 on January 9, 1995 in Munich, Germany. Show less «