Christa Wiese Explained

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 .

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 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 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, 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]

Notes and 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. http://www.gbrathletics.com/nc/gdri.htm East German Indoor Championships
  3. http://www.gbrathletics.com/tp/worwi.htm WORLD TOP PERFORMERS 1980-2006: WOMEN (INDOOR)
  4. http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/wi.htm IAAF World Indoor Championships
  5. http://trackfield.brinkster.net/Profile.asp?ID=3020&Gender=W Christa Wiese
  6. http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/l/leichtathletik/hst/236.html Leichtathletik - DDR - Meisterschaften (Kugelstoßen - Damen)
  7. http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/l/leichtathletik/hst/274.html Leichtathletik - DDR - Hallen - Meisterschaften (Kugelstoßen - Damen)