Christina Heinich

Starting for the GDR - - Christina Heinich, married Schiffner ( born July 8, 1949 in Leipzig ) is a German track and field athlete who is at the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 won the silver medal in the 4 x 100 - meter relay (42, 95 s, together Evelyn Kaufer, Bärbel Struppert and Renate Stecher ). In these Olympics, they also launched the 200-meter individual race and finished fifth ( 22.89 s ).

Again with the 4 x 100 - meter relay in the GDR in 1974 she won the European Championships ( 42.51 s, together with Bärbel Eckert, Doris and Renate Stecher Maletzki ).

At the European Championships in 1966 and 1971, she had no medals: In 1966 she retired in the 200 - meter race in the intermediate run and finished fifth with the 4 x 100 - meter relay ( 45.3 sec); In 1971 she was in the 200 -meter run eighth.

Christina Heinich launched for SC Leipzig and trained with Karl -Heinz Balzer, inter alia, Karin Balzer and Regina Höfer. In her playing days, she was 1.76 m tall and weighed 66 kg. After her athletic career she became an engineer - economist and worked in a builders supply company. She married cyclists and Peace driver Michael Schiffner.

Awards

  • Athlete (DDR )
  • European Champion ( athletics)
  • Olympian (DDR )
  • DDR Champion ( athletics)
  • Sprinter
  • Support of the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
  • German
  • GDR citizens
  • Born in 1949
  • Woman
East Germany 4 × 100 metres relay 1974 European Athletics Championships Doris Maletzki 1966 European Athletics Championships 1971 European Athletics Championships
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