Christa Wiese
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  East Germany
World Indoor Championships
Bronze medal – third place1989 BudapestShot put

Christa Wiese (born 25 December 1967) is a German former track and field athlete who competed for East Germany in the shot put. She was a world indoor medalist and had a best of 20.50 m (67 ft 3 in).

Born in Templin, Bezirk Neubrandenburg, she became a member of the SC Neubrandenburg sports club.[1] She had the peak of her career in 1989 at the age of twenty-two. At the East German Indoor Athletics Championships she finished runner-up to Heike Hartwig by a margin of one centimetre. Her throw of 20.50 m (67 ft 3 in) was a lifetime best and ranked her second in world indoors that year.[2][3] This performance gained her selection for the 1989 IAAF World Indoor Championships. In the final of the event in Budapest she had a throw of 19.75 m (64 ft 9+1⁄2 in) in the final, which brought her the bronze medal behind West Germany's Claudia Losch and Huang Zhihong of China.[4] This was her first and only major senior medal.

In the outdoor 1989 season she cleared twenty metres exactly at a meet in Schwerin – a mark which placed her in the top ten outdoors that year. Although she did not appear in major international competition in 1990 she ranked eleventh globally with a season's best of 19.97 m (65 ft 6 in), such was the East German women's strength in depth in shot put.[5] She placed third nationally in the shot put both indoors and outdoors that year, which was her last at a high level.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ Klaus Amrhein: Biographisches Handbuch zur Geschichte der Deutschen Leichtathletik 1898–2005. 2 Bände. Darmstadt 2005 publiziert über Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft
  2. ↑ East German Indoor Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-11-02.
  3. ↑ WORLD TOP PERFORMERS 1980-2006: WOMEN (INDOOR). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-11-02.
  4. ↑ IAAF World Indoor Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-11-02.
  5. ↑ Christa Wiese. Track and Field Brinkster. Retrieved on 2015-11-02.
  6. ↑ Leichtathletik - DDR - Meisterschaften (Kugelstoßen - Damen). Sport Komplett. Retrieved on 2015-11-02.
  7. ↑ Leichtathletik - DDR - Hallen - Meisterschaften (Kugelstoßen - Damen). Sport Komplett. Retrieved on 2015-11-02.
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