Christine Wachtel (born 6 January 1965), is a 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 eve ...

athlete who won the silver medal for

East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In t ...

at the 1988 Olympic summer games in Seoul in the

800 metres The 800 metres, or meters ( US spelling), is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event. The 800 metres is run over two laps of an outdoor (400-metre) track and has been an Olympic event since th ...

run. Her time of 1:56.64 put her second to her training partner

Sigrun Wodars Sigrun Grau (née Ludwigs, then Wodars, born 7 November 1965) is an East German former middle distance athlete who was born Sigrun Ludwigs in Neu Kaliß, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. She started out as a 400 m hurdler in Schwerin ...

. Wachtel was born in

Altentreptow Altentreptow () is a town in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated on the river Tollense in Western Pomerania, 15 km north of Neubrandenburg. Until 1939 the city's name was '' ...

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV; ; nds, Mäkelborg-Vörpommern), also known by its anglicized name Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, is a state in the north-east of Germany. Of the country's sixteen states, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ranks 14th in po ...

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.

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* 1965 births Living people People from Altentreptow People from Bezirk Neubrandenburg East German female middle-distance runners Sportspeople from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Olympic athletes of East Germany Olympic athletes of Germany World Athletics Championships athletes for East Germany World Athletics Championships athletes for Germany Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships medalists European Athletics Championships medalists Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for East Germany Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field) Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver World Athletics Indoor Championships winners {{Germany-athletics-Olympic-medalist-stub