Kathrin Neimke (18 July 1966 in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German track and field athlete. During the 1980s and 1990s, she was one of the world's best in the shot put. Until 1990 she represented East Germany. She won two Olympic medals, the first a silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, and the second a bronze at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
Neimke represented SC Magdeburg and trained with Klaus Schneider. She is 1.80 meters tall and during her active career she weighed 95 kilograms. She has a degree in sales and at the end of her sporting career she had a job as reproduction photographer at a daily newspaper. After that she went to the Saxony-Anhalt police.
International competitions Representing 1987UniversiadeZagreb, Yugoslavia2nd20.07 mWorld ChampionshipsRome, Italy2nd21.21 m1988European Indoor ChampionshipsBudapest, Hungary3rd20.20 mOlympic Games Seoul, South Korea 2nd21.07 m1990European ChampionshipsSplit, Yugoslavia3rd19.96 mRepresenting 1991World Indoor ChampionshipsSeville, Spain6th18.77 mWorld ChampionshipsTokyo, Japan8th18.83 m1992Olympic Games Barcelona, Spain 3rd19.78 mWorld CupHavana, Cuba3rd17.97 m1993World Indoor ChampionshipsToronto, Canada8th 18.50 mWorld ChampionshipsStuttgart, Germany3rd19.71 m1994European ChampionshipsHelsinki, Finland6th 18.94 m1995World Indoor ChampionshipsBarcelona, Spain1st19.40 mWorld ChampionshipsGothenburg, Sweden4th19.30 m1996Olympic GamesAtlanta, United States7th18.92 m
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