Christine Spielberg
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| Nationality | East German | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 December 1941 Niederlungwitz, Glauchau, Sachsen, Germany | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 187 cm (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 83 kg (183 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | discus throw | ||||||||||||||
| Club | SC Karl-Marx-Stadt | ||||||||||||||
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Christine Spielberg also known as Christa Spielberg (born 21 December 1941) is a former German track and field athlete who competed in the women's discus throw[1] and comepeted at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Biography
[edit | edit source]She claimed the gold medal at the 1966 European Championships in the discus throw event.[2]
Speilberg set the world record on 26 May 1968, reaching 61.64 m (202 ft 2+3⁄4 in) in Regis-Breitingen[3] and on 20 July finished second behind Karin Illgen at the British 1968 WAAA Championships.[4][5][6]
She represented East Germany at the 1968 Olympic Games and placed seventh in the final.[7] She had the second-best throw of her career in the 1970 season, throwing 61.46 m (201 ft 7+1⁄2 in) which ranked her fifth in the world that year. In the last major outing, she finished eighth at the 1971 European Athletics Championships. Her season's best of 60.72 m (199 ft 2+1⁄2 in) that year made her the seventh best thrower for the season and was the final time she ranked in the top ten globally.[8]
References
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- ^ Christine Spielberg. Sports-reference. Retrieved on 28 October 2014.
- ^ Christine Spielberg. Track and Field Brinkster. Retrieved on 28 October 2014.
- Klaus Amrhein: Biographisches Handbuch zur Geschichte der Deutschen Leichtathletik 1898–2005.
European Athletics Championships champions in women's discus throw | |
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- 1941 births
- Living people
- People from Glauchau
- East German women discus throwers
- Olympic athletes for East Germany
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- World record setters in the sport of athletics
- Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit
- Athletes from Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt
- German athletics biography stubs