Christine Laser

Christine Laser, nee Bodner ( born March 19, 1951 in Mattstedt ) is a former German athlete who had - starting for the GDR - at the Olympic Games in 1976 won the silver medal in the pentathlon.

Life

It was in 1968 at the Junior European games Sixth. In Munich in 1972, it reached number four ( 4671 points) in the Olympics. Another success was winning the European Cup in the all around 1975 with the East German team. There she was in the individual standings behind Burglinde Pollak second.

At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal Laser won the silver medal. You scoring with 4745 points the same end result as their team and club mate Sigrun Siegl, but had the worse single placements and was therefore set to the second place according to IAAF rules. Your individual performances in this competition: 13,55 s - 14.29 m - 1.78 m - 6.27 m - 23.48 s for winning the silver medal she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. In the next Olympic Games in Moscow, she gave in the second discipline, the shot put on.

Laser competed for the SC Turbine Erfurt and coached at Siegfried Meissner. In her competition time, she was 1.79 m tall and weighed 67 kg. In the becoming public knowledge after the fall of documents to the state doping in the GDR was found in the doped athletes also the name of lasers.

She married in 1973 the 400-meter hurdler Jürgen laser ( Best time: 50.0 s ). After her athletic career, she was a physical education teacher at the Academy of Music Franz Liszt in Weimar. She lives in her native Mattstedt.