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Cornelia Oschkenat, (née Riefstahl; born 29 October 1961) is a German former
European Championships
/ref> She won perhaps her biggest individual title in 1987, at the World Indoor Championships in Indianapolis, when she won the 60 m hurdles, finishing ahead of her two chief career rivals, the Bulgarian pair of Donkova and
track and field
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athlete who represented East Germany
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. She competed at the 1988 Olympic Games
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*The 1988 Winter Olympics, which were held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
*The 1988 Summer Olympics
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in Seoul
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. At the 1987 World Championships
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in Rome, she won a bronze medal in the 100 metres hurdles
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with a time of 12.46s as well as silver medal as a member of the East German 4 × 100 metres relay
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team.
She also won the 1987 World Indoor 60 m hurdles title, two World Cup
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100 m hurdles titles and three European Indoor 60 m hurdles
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titles. Her world indoor record for the 50 metres hurdles
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of 6.58 secs in 1988, still stands (as of 2019).
Oschkenat won eleven East German individual national titles, taking five titles in the 100 m hurdles between 1984 and 1989 at the East German Athletics Championships, as well as six consecutive titles in the 60 m hurdles at the East German Indoor Athletics Championships over that period.
Career
Oschkenat was born Cornelia Riefstahl inNeubrandenburg
Neubrandenburg (lit. ''New Brandenburg'', ) is a city in the southeast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is located on the shore of a lake called Tollensesee and forms the urban centre of the Mecklenburg Lakeland.
The city is famous for its ...
, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
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, East Germany. She began her international career in 1982 and reached the World Championship final in 1983. She was unable to participate in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles because of her country's boycott of the games. In 1985, she won the World Cup title in Canberra. In 1986 she won a silver medal behind Yordanka Donkova
Yordanka Donkova ( bg, Йорданка Донкова) (born 28 September 1961) is a Bulgarian former hurdling athlete, notable for winning an Olympic gold medal and bronze medal as well as nine medals at European indoor and outdoor c ...
at the European Championships in Stuttgart./ref> She won perhaps her biggest individual title in 1987, at the World Indoor Championships in Indianapolis, when she won the 60 m hurdles, finishing ahead of her two chief career rivals, the Bulgarian pair of Donkova and
Ginka Zagorcheva
Ginka Zagorcheva-Boycheva, bg, Гинка Загорчева-Бойчева (born 12 April 1958) is a former hurdling athlete from Bulgaria. She was born in Plovdiv, and is most notable for winning the 100 metres hurdles at the 1987 World Champio ...
. Later that year at the World Championships in Rome, she won bronze in the 100 m hurdles behind Zagorcheva and East German teammate Gloria Siebert
Gloria Siebert ( Kovarik, born 13 January 1964 in Ortrand, Bezirk Cottbus) is a former East German hurdler.
She won the silver medal in the 100 metres hurdles at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. She also won silver medals at the 1981 ...
, but ahead of Donkova, who was fourth.
A medal favourite for the 1988 Seoul Olympics, she pulled a muscle midway through the final and limped over the line in eight place. After finishing third at the 1989 World Indoor Championships, she went on to have one of her best ever outdoor seasons. Her victories included both the European and World cup events. She ended the outdoor season unbeaten. Having been ranked second in the ''Track and Field News
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'' world merit rankings for three consecutive years, 1985–87, she was the clear number one in 1989. In 1990, she finished fourth at the European Championships in Split in what would be her eighth consecutive (and final) year ranked in the world top ten (on time and merit). She represented a united Germany at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo but was eliminated in the heats and retired at the end of that season.
Oschkenat represented the Dynamo Berlin sport club. During her career she was 1.76 meters tall and weighed 65 kilograms. She married fellow hurdler, Andreas Oschkenat in 1984.
International competitions
(h) Indicates overall position in qualifying heats.National titles
* East German Athletics Championships **100 m hurdles: 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989 * East German Indoor Athletics Championships **60 m hurdles: 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989References
*External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Oschkenat, Cornelia 1961 births Living people People from Neubrandenburg People from Bezirk Neubrandenburg East German female hurdlers East German female sprinters German female sprinters German female hurdlers Sportspeople from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Olympic athletes of East Germany Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for East Germany World Athletics Championships athletes for Germany World Athletics Championships medalists European Athletics Championships medalists Goodwill Games medalists in athletics World Athletics indoor record holders Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver World Athletics Indoor Championships winners World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists Competitors at the 1986 Goodwill Games