Wyludda was born in Leipzig in the former East Germany in 1969 already as a 20-year-old she threw the personal record 74.56 which gives her a shared second place all time.
She ended her career in 2000. After a bacterial infection, she had her right leg amputated and returned as an active athlete to the Paralympics in London in 2012 and went to the final in the wheelchair discus. It was a bronze in the Para WC in 2015 before she retired from that career in 2017.
“With Ilke Wyludda, a figurehead in German athletics has unfortunately left us far too soon at the age of 55. The athletics family mourns the loss of a truly great athlete who battled injury and illness throughout his life and yet remained committed to his sport for decades,” says the president of the German Athletics Federation Idriss Gonschinska to Worlds Athletics.
Between 1989 and 1991, she won 41 races in a row.
Wyludda passed away on Sunday.