Christiane Pielke

Christiane Staffeldt ( born May 12, 1963 in Hannover), born Pielke, is a former German swimmer who competed for the Federal Republic of Germany. She won an Olympic medal in 1984.

Christiane Pielke began in 1973 with the competitive sports and belonged from 1979 for ten years to the West German top swimmers. She started for the SGS Hanover. In 1981, she first participated at the European Championship. As a third in the German Championship in 1984 in the 100 meters freestyle, she qualified for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. There, she took on the 200 - meter individual medley track in 2:17:82 minutes to fifth place after they had set up in the first heat in 2:19,17 minutes an Olympic record, however, the Nancy Hogshead the third lead to almost three seconds improved. With the 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay in the cast Iris Zscherpe, Susanne Schuster, Christiane Pielke and Karin Seick she won the bronze medal behind the seasons from the United States and from the Netherlands.

At the European Championships in 1985 in Sofia, the squadron swam in the same occupation, the silver medal behind the Squadron from the GDR, which had been missing in 1984 because of the Olympic boycott, and before the season from the Netherlands. 1987 won Christiane Pielke at the German Championship over 50 meters freestyle her first single title. At the European Championships in 1987 in Strasbourg, she took over this distance behind the Romanian Tamara Costache and Katrin Meissner from East Germany to third place and thus won her first international single medal. Along with Stephanie Bofinger, Svenja Plain and Karin Seick Pielke swam with freestyle relay another bronze medal. 1988 Staffeldt could not only defend their national title over 50 -meter freestyle, but also won the 100 meters. At the Olympic Games in 1988, she launched over both distances, but only reached about 50 meters, the B- final, where she finished second, for a total of ten. With the season they finished in seventh place.