5 minutes with Franka Dietzsch (GER)

If you could spend five minutes with your favourite sports star what would you ask? How many hours do they train? What do they eat? Or how about their worst habit, their guiltiest pleasure and their favourite body part!!
This weekend’s 5-minute interviewee is a true veteran of athletics. You cannot fail to be impressed by the incredible stats of this 39-year-old throwing legend. However there is a lot more to this Discus diva than her impressive gold medal collection!

Her glittering athletics career was almost stopped before it started, and this real family girl may have pursued her dreams of becoming a physiotherapist, but lucky for us she decided to battle on at her sport and she just keeps on battling.

This lady is perhaps best summed up by her favourite quote,

“One who goes into battle might lose; one who does not go into battle always loses”

Yes ladies and gentlemen it is the weekend, so put down your left over Turkey sandwich and prepare to spend the next 5-minutes with one of the cornerstones of German athletics, the hard working, honest, family woman, who just happens to hold four World Championship gold medals!

The incredible… Franka Dietzsch.

Source/Courtesy
European Athletics (EAA)
EAA