Christa Stubnick

Christa Stubnick (née Seliger, married Fischer, born December 12, 1933 Gardelegen, Altmark ) is a retired German sprinter who won two Olympic silver medals in 1956.

Life

The daughter of a nurse working athlete and trained as a shorthand typist. 1951 saw the track coach Max Schommler her talent and brought them out of Lok Stendal to Potsdam to Dynamo. In the sports club of the German People's Police Christa then had all the prerequisites to become a Weltklassesprinterin. Easter 1954 she married the GDR heavyweight champion boxing Erich Stubnick and lived until 1966 in Dresden. After her divorce in 1967 she went to Magdeburg, where the nunmehrige Christa Fischer Head of an intelligence unit of the People's Police District Office ( VPKA ), as was with the rank of Major.

Sports career

At the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956, she launched a joint German team for the GDR. In the 100 - meter race she won the silver medal in 11.7 s - between the two Australians Betty Cuthbert ( gold) and Marlene Mathews (bronze). In the 200 - meter race she finished second in 23.7 seconds also. With the 4 x 100 - meter relay, she came up to sixth place ( 47.2 s ).

The European Athletics Championships 1958, she was third in the 100 meters ( 11.8 s ) and Fifth over 200 meters ( 25.7 seconds). From 1953 she ran numerous records, including relay world records. Her first record was spectacular, the leveling of 19 years old 200-meter European cup record of Polish Stanisław Walasiewicz on August 7, 1954 in Budapest.

On 30 May 1955 she improved the German record for the 100 meters in Erfurt to 11.6 s, and on 30 June 1956 in Berlin again on the European record time of 11.5 s ( same time on September 30, 1956 in Dresden). About 200 meters they improved the German record on August 8, 1953, 23.9 s, and on 9 September 1956, the European record time of 23.5 s In 1956, she ran into the crew of the 4 x 100 - meter relay three world records, most recently at the Olympic lead 44.9 s on 1 December 1956 in Melbourne (along with Maria Sander, Gisela Köhler and Bärbel Mayer).

Christa Stubnick is 1,60 m tall and weighed in their active period 52 kg. 1953, she was selected under her birth name Christa Seliger for German Sportswoman of the Year. In 1971, she ended her sports career.