Christine "Christa" Spielberg (born 21 December 1941) is a former German

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

athlete who competed in the women's

discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disk (mathematics), disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an classical antiqui ...

. She claimed the gold medal at the 1966 European Championships, and set the

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on 26 May 1968, reaching in

Regis-Breitingen Regis-Breitingen () is a town in the Leipzig district, in Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Pleiße The Pleiße is a river of Saxony and Thuringia, Germany. The Pleiße has its source southwest of Zwickau at Ebersbrunn, then flows ...

. She represented 1968 Summer Olympics and placed seventh in the final. She also placed second to compatriot Karin Illgen at the

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. She had the second-best throw of her career in the 1970 season, throwing 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 that year made her the seventh best thrower for the season and was the final time she ranked in the top ten globally.Christine Spielberg
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References

*Klaus Amrhein: ''Biographisches Handbuch zur Geschichte der Deutschen Leichtathletik 1898–2005''. 1941 births Living people People from Glauchau East German female discus throwers Olympic athletes of East Germany Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Saxony European Athletics Championships medalists World record setters in athletics (track and field) Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit {{Germany-discus-bio-stub