| Roles | Competed in Olympic Games |
|---|---|
| Sex | Female |
| Full name | Betty•Heidler |
| Used name | Betty•Heidler |
| Born | 14 October 1983 in Ost-Berlin (East Berlin), Berlin (GER) |
| Measurements | 175 cm / 85 kg |
| Affiliations | LG Eintracht Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main (GER) |
| NOC |  Germany |
| Medals | OG |
| Gold | 0 |
| Silver | 1 |
| Bronze | 0 |
| Total | 1 |
German hammer thrower Betty Heidler was a four-time Olympian. She won the bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics but was promoted to the silver medal place four years after the Games following the subsequent disqualification of Russia’s Tatyana Lysenko following a positive doping test and failed re-tests of the 2012 samples. In 2004 at Athens and 2016 at Rio de Janeiro, Heidler was placed an unfortunate fourth, and at Beijing in 2008 finished seventh.
Heidler crowned her career as the best-ever female German hammer thrower by winning the gold medal at the 2007 World Championships and added two silver medals in 2009 and 2011. In 2010, she also won the Europeans and added a silver medal in 2016. From 2005-12 she won eight consecutive German titles.
Heidler studied law and became a policewoman with the Federal Police. For her sporting successes she was awarded the Silver Bay Leaf in 2012 and the Rudolf-Harbig-Gedächtnispreis (Memorial Award) in 2014. She was a second cousin of Cornelia Oschkenat.
Personal Best: HT – 79.42 (2011).
| Games | Discipline (Sport) / Event | NOC / Team | Pos | Medal | As | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 Summer Olympics | Athletics | GER |
Betty Heidler | |||
| Hammer Throw, Women (Olympic) | 4 | |||||
| 2008 Summer Olympics | Athletics | GER |
Betty Heidler | |||
| Hammer Throw, Women (Olympic) | 7 | |||||
| 2012 Summer Olympics | Athletics | GER |
Betty Heidler | |||
| Hammer Throw, Women (Olympic) | 2 | Silver | ||||
| 2016 Summer Olympics | Athletics | GER |
Betty Heidler | |||
| Hammer Throw, Women (Olympic) | 4 |
