Curly Brown (discus thrower)
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| Nationality | German | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 January 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Discus throw | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | Discus: 58.99m (2025) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Curly Brown (born 18 January 2006) is a German discus thrower. She won gold medals at the 2022 European Athletics U18 Championships and the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships.[1]
Biography
She is from Frankfurt and competes as a member of Eintracht Frankfurt. Brown initially started competing in the shot put before switching to compete in the discus throw as well, competing for the first time in 2018. She was still competing in both events in 2021, when as a 15 year-old she was competing above her age-group at the under-18 level.[2][3][4]
She won the gold medal in the discus throw at the 2022 European Athletics U18 Championships in Jerusalem, Israel, with a personal best throw of 50.64 metres.[5] She won gold medal in the discus throw the following year at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships, again in Jerusalem, and again with a personal best; this time with 53.93 metres, and still at the age of 17 years-old. She was part of a German clean sweep of the medals in the discus at the championships, alongside Milina Wepiwé und Lea Bork.[6][7]
Competing at the German Throwing Cup in Brandenburg in May 2024, she improved her personal best from 54.62 metres to 57.11 metres with her first throw, before increasing it again to 57.66m.[8] She placed fourth in the final of the discus at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru with a best throw of 54.29m.[9]
In February 2025, she won the discus throw at the German U20 Winter Throwing Championships in Halle.[10] In May 2025, she set a personal best of 58.99 metres in the U20 discus.[11] The throw put her into a European U20 lead going into the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships.[12]
References
- ^ "Curly Brown". World Athletics. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "Curly Brown – Liebe auf den ersten Wurf". leichtathletik.de. 27 June 2023. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "Curly Brown shines with Hesse record in discus throwing - international standards for Marius Karges (World Championships U20) and Charleen Zoschke (European Championships U23)". hlv.de. 13 May 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ "Curly Brown looks after her karma account for LA's Olympic dream". hessenschau.de. 22 August 2024. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "European U18 Championship bests for Germany's Graber and Weigel in Jerusalem". World Athletics. 8 July 2022. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Brown and Karges in top form". leichtathletik. 23 May 2024. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ "Women's Discus Throw Results - World Athletics Junior U20 Championships 2024". Watch Athletics. 28 August 2024. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
- ^ "German U20 Winter Throwing Championships". World Athletics. 15 Feb 2025. Retrieved 8 July 2025.
- ^ "Wurfmeeting des SC Magdeburg e.V." World Athletics. 17 May 2025. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ "Tampere 2025 - Women's field preview". European Athletics. 3 August 2025. Retrieved 8 August 2025.