Kjersti Plätzer

Kjersti Seater ( born Tysse; born January 18, 1972 in Os, Hordaland ) is a Norwegian race walker. The three -time Olympian was successful not only in the 20 - kilometer walk, but also on shorter routes.

At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000, she won the silver medal behind Wang Liping (CHN ) and before María Vasco (ESP).

Kjersti Plätzer won at 45 Norwegian Championships. The Norwegian record held by it on Track Walk on the lines 3000 m, 5000 m and 10,000 m and 3000 m in the hall and in the street walking on the paths 3 km, 5 km, 10 km, 15 km and 20 km. World records in track Go put it on more than 1500 meters and a mile.

In the Junior European Championships 1985, she was ranked 11, 1986 5th place was at the Junior World Championships At the European Championships in 1986 she became the fourteen- year-old already Eleventh, twelve years later at the European Championships 1998, she finished ninth after a disqualification at the European Championships 2002 them in 2006 in Gothenburg fourth. At the World Championships she reached 9th place in 1999 in Seville and 2007 in Osaka 4th place

Plätzer won in Beijing at the 2008 Olympics, the silver medal.

Kjersti seaters has a contest weight of 54 kg at a height of 1.74 m. She is married since 1995 with the German middle distance runner Stephan Plätzer who is their coach, and has two children. Her brother Erik Tysse is also an internationally successful touring.