[1] She won the silver medal in Javelin throw at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne with a distance of 50.38 metres.

She participated in the Javelin throw, winning the silver medal with a distance of 50.38 metres.

Ahrens was forced to retire after having a dispute with the Chilean newspaper Clarín, and she was banned from competing in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

[4] After athletics she began to play tennis and in 1967, won the Chilean national tournament in mixed doubles with Omar Pabst.

On the night of June 17, 2020, Ahrens died of heart failure in Santiago de Chile at the age of 86.