Christel Frese

Christel Frese ( born August 3, 1944 in Lennep ) is a retired German sprinter who - starting for the Federal Republic - the late 1960s and was successful in the 400 - meter race in the early 1970s.

She is 1.65 m tall and weighed in their active time 50 kg.

Christel Frese could ever win a silver and a bronze medal at the European Championships with the West German team in the 4 x 400 - meter relay. Her achievements as a single runner over 400 meters - the one gold and two silver medals - she scored in the hall.

In the years 1975 - 1977 she played in the women's game for the SSG 09 Bergisch Gladbach and celebrated with this, the German women's football championship 1977.

Career

Christel Frese grew up in Meggen and worked as a Member of TV Meggen, where she trained under Gerd Manke. In 1964 she came to sports studies to Cologne and joined the local ASV. Their coach was Fredy Wehrmann, who looked after at 49 German championships.

Frese began her athletic career as a sprinter in the 100 and 200 meters. Your first medal success came in 1966 when she came at the German Championships in the 4 x 100 meters relay with the ASV behind the representation of Hamburger SV in second place. Then they switched to the 400 - meter track.

Your first international match they played in 1968 in Buxtehude.

Your success were the years 1969 and 1970.

• In 1969 they won their first German Cup over 400 meters and a bronze medal at the European Championships in Athens on the anchor leg of the 4 x 400 - meter relay.
• In 1970, they improved three times the German record over 400 meters and won on August 22, 1970 at the European Cup in Budapest the silver medal. She was also Vice - European Champion in the hall. Another second place behind Marilyn Neufville it secured in the open British Championships in London.

A single medal at outdoor European Championships remained Christel Frese same failed twice: in 1969 in Athens not joined the West German team in protest because of the launch denial of Jürgen May in the individual competitions in 1971 in Helsinki, she came as a result of injury-related training residue only to the semifinals.

In 1971 she won the ISTAF in Berlin ( 53.6 s ).

She participated in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich in part, after they had just improved the German record again, but injured himself in the 400 -meter intermediate fraction and could therefore no longer be standing for the season.

In the course of her career won Christel Frese nine German and six European titles and ran 15 German, four European and three world records. She won a total of 26 international matches.

Your personal best times:

In 1975, Christel Frese finished her career as a track and field athlete and was football player. She played successively for the following clubs:

• SSG 09 Bergisch Gladbach (until 1977 ) and in the same year German women's football champion
• SC 07 Bad Neuenahr
• VfL Euskirchen

For VfL she also worked as a trainer. Later she went to TuS Halberbracht, a village club in Lenne city where they first ran the goalie training. She currently heads up the training of the girls soccer team.

Private

From 1968 to 2007 Christel Frese worked as a teacher for sports, mathematics and biology at St. Mary's School Euskirchen. Among her pupils, among others belonged Silke Rottenberg.

It is under the name Christel Frese -Gerber member of the breed breed club for Hovawarthunde eV

Christel Frese is widowed. Their marriage remained childless.

Achievements

Records

• World Records Into the public spotlight Christel Frese joined with a world record, which she ran on September 19, 1969 with the European Athletics Championships in Athens with the 4 x 400 - meter relay team (Team: Christa Czekay, Antje dc field, Inge Eckhoff and as final leg Christel Frese ). The scoring time of 3:33,9 min was, however, undercut the very next day by the British and the French squadron.
• Another world record was Christel Frese on March 14 in 1970 at the European Indoor Championships in Vienna, as they advance in the 400m the previous unofficial indoor personal best of 55.29 s, run in 1968 by Natalja Petschonkina from the Soviet Union, at 53, 7 s improved. However, this world record had an even shorter duration than that of Athens: As early as one and a half hours later, starting for the UK Marilyn Neufville won the final race in a world record time of 53.0 s before Christel Frese in 53.1 s

• Your first German record ran Christel Frese on 15 June 1969 in Copenhagen as a member of the 4 x 400 - meter relay ( Instrumentation: Eckhoff, dc field, Dannenberg and Frese ) in 3:48,4 min
• In 1970, Christel Frese improved three times the hitherto held by Helga Henning German record over 400 meters: 52.7 s, achieved on July 16 at the international match Germany - USA in Stuttgart, 52.6 s, achieved on August 8th in Berlin, 52.4 s, achieved on October 11. With this performance, she was third in the annual global leaderboard.
• In 1972, Christel Frese managed a recent Best time: 52.2 s, made ​​in Bonn on May 20. However, this record no longer appears in the lists of the DLV, as the GDR athlete Helga Seidler a year before the 400 meters in 52.2 s was already run and the record lists the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR were contracted.

Olympic games

• Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 First of all go according to plan. Christel Frese won her lead in 52.89 seconds and was then as fourth in the intermediate run in 53.01 s, throw the Olympic champion from Mexico, Colette Besson out of the race. But then she suffered the injury problems in the semifinals. In order to qualify for the final, they would have been necessary to run under 52 seconds since the fourth place, the later bronze medalist Kathy Hammond, 51,92 s achieved.

European Championships

• 400 m free air 1969 Athens: Not Started ( boycott of the German team due to launch denial of Jürgen May )
• 1971 Helsinki: Forward 1 ( 54.4 s ), intermediate fraction 6 ( 54.1 s )

European Cup

German Championships

• 400 m 1969 champion ( 54.3 s )
• 1970 champion ( 52.6 s )
• 1971 Second behind Inge Bödding and before Anette Rückes
• 1972 Second behind Rita Wilden and before Anette Rückes
• 1973 Third behind Rita Wilden and Erika Weinstein

AAA Championships