Christine Wachtel (born 6 January 1965) is a German track and field athlete who won the silver medal for East Germany at the 1988 Olympic summer games in Seoul in the 800 metres run. Her time of 1:56.64 put her second to her training partner Sigrun Wodars.
Wachtel was born in Altentreptow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Her earlier successes in the 800 meter run included:
1983: Second at the Junior European championship (2:00.42 Min.)
1987: Second at the World championship (1:55.32 Min.)
In 1990, she was second at the European championships. (1:56.11 Min.)
Other success in the 4 × 400 meter relay:
1991: Third at the world championship with the German 4 × 400 meter relay (3:21.25 Min.).
She also participated in the 1992 Olympic summer games in Barcelona, where she was, however, eliminated in the 800 meter preliminaries.
Wachtel trained at the Neubrandenburg sport club under trainer Walter Gladrow. During her career she was 1.66 meters tall and weighed 66 kilograms. After her sport career she operates a pizza-bakery in Neubrandenburg.
ChristineWachtel (born 6 January 1965) is a German track and field athlete who won the silver medal for East Germany at the 1988 Olympic summer games...
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rivals and the Olympic Gold and silver medalists Sigrun Wodars and ChristineWachtel, and favored to win a medal in the 400 metres. However, the Cuban...
of 1:57.57, behind the East German athletes Sigrun Wodars (gold), ChristineWachtel (silver) and Liliya Nurutdinova (bronze) from the Soviet Union. During...
800m at the IAAF Grand Prix Final in Monaco, behind Ana Quirot and ChristineWachtel. She was ranked number seven on the 1989 Track & Field News world...
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places her eighth on the German all-time list, behind Sigrun Wodars, ChristineWachtel, Elfi Zinn, Anita Weiß, Martina Kämpfert, Ulrike Klapezynski and Hildegard...
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