In spite of her regularly placing second in domestic competition, she frequently led the world on performance and was the number one ranked shot putter from 1932 to 1933 and again from 1935 to 1939. German women led the event during this period, with Heublein and Mauermayer being the ones to disrupt her reign. In her sole major international outing she edged Mauermayer to the gold medal at the 1938 European Athletics Championships by two centimetres to become the first ever European women's champion in the event. She ranked within the world top ten in 1940 and 1941, but upon entering her thirties her career came to a close during World War II.