Milina Wepiwé
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| Nationality | German | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 September 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Discus throw | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | Discus: 59.75 m (2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Milina Wepiwé (born 4 September 2005) is a German discus thrower. She was a silver medalist at the 2023 European U20 Championships and a bronze medalist at the 2025 European U23 Championships.[1]
Career
From Wehrheim in Hesse, Wepiwé competed as a youngster as a member of TSG Wehrheim.[2] Wepiwé represented Germany in the discus throw at the 2022 European Athletics U18 Championships in Jerusalem, Israel.[3][4]
Wepiwé won the silver medal in the discus throw at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships in Jerusalem, Israel, behind compatriot Curly Brown, as part of a German clean sweep of the medals in the discus at the championships, with Brown and Lea Bork.[5][6][7]
In 2024, in her first year as a student at Harvard University in the United States, she became the 2024 Ivy League women's discus champion, and then reached the final of the 2024 NCAA Outdoor Championships in the women's discus in Eugene, Oregon, placing seventh overall in the discus with a personal best throw of 59.23 metres.[8] The folllwing year, she improved her personal best to 59.75 metres whilst competing at the Penn Relays.[9]
She won the bronze medal in the discus throw at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, Norway, with a throw of 56.82 metres.[10]
Personal life
Her sister Nadjela Wepiwé is also a discus thrower, and won the gold medal at the 2024 European Athletics U18 Championships.[11]
References
- ^ "Milina Wepiwé". World Athletics. Retrieved 28 July 2025.
- ^ "Milina Wepiwe in the Federal Junior Squad". usinger-anzeiger.de. January 13, 2022. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
- ^ "DLV reist mit 51 Talenten zur U18-EM nach Jerusalem". Leichtathletik.de. 23 June 2022. Retrieved 28 July 2025.
- ^ "DLV reist mit 51 Talenten zur U18-EM nach Jerusalem". Leichtathletik.de. 23 June 2022. Retrieved 1 Nov 2025.
- ^ Henderson, Jason (Aug 11, 2023). "At the double – Laros and Caune impress in Jerusalem". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "Curly Brown führt historischen Dreifach-Triumph im Diskuswurf an". leichtathletik.de. 10 August 2023. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ "European Athletics U20 Championships". World Athletics. 7 August 2023. Retrieved 28 July 2025.
- ^ "Ramsden Wins 1,500m National Title at NCAA Outdoor Championships". gocrimson. 9 June 2024. Retrieved 1 Nov 2025.
- ^ "Penn and Harvard Claim Outdoor Track & Field Weekly Awards". Ivyleague.com. 29 April 2025. Retrieved 1 Nov 2025.
- ^ Broadbent, Chris (20 Jul 2025). "Iosif Kesidis wins hammer gold for Cyprus and Lopez wins discus for Spain". European Athletics. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ^ "Milina Wepiwé pulls off the bronze throw at the right moment". Leichtathletik.de. 20 July 2025. Retrieved 1 Nov 2025.