Medal record
Christine Wachtel
Women's Athletics
Competitor for  East Germany
Olympic Games
Silver	1988 Seoul	800 m
World Championships
Silver	1987 Rome	800 m
Bronze	1991 Tokyo	4x400 m relay

Christine Wachtel (born January 6, 1965 in Altentreptow, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), is a German track and field athlete who won the silver medal for East Germany at the 1988 Olympic summer games in Seoul in the 800 metres run. Her time of 1:56.64 put her second to her training partner Sigrun Wodars.

Other success in the 800 meter run:

• 1983: Second at the Junior European championship (2:00.42 Min.)
• 1987: Second at the World championship (1:55.32 Min.)
• 1990: Second at the European championship (1:56.11 Min.)

Other success in the 4x400 meter relay:

• 1991: Third at the world championship with the German 4x400 meter relay (3:21.25 Min.).

She also participated in the 1992 Olympic summer games in Barcelona, where she was, however, eliminated in the 800 meter preliminaries.

Wachtel trained at the Neubrandenburg sport club under trainer Walter Gladrow. During her career she was 1.66 meters tall and weighed 66 kilograms. After her sport career she operates a pizza-bakery in Neubrandenburg.

[edit] External links

• IAAF profile for Christine Wachtel

v • d • e IAAF World/Continental Cup Champions in Women's 800 m  1977: Totka Petrova (URS)  •  1979: Nikolina Shtereva (BUL)  •  1981: Lyudmila Veselkova (URS)  •  1985: Christine Wachtel (GDR)  •  1989: Ana Fidelia Quirot (CUB)  •  1992 – 2002: Maria Mutola (MOZ)  •  2006: Zulia Calatayud (CUB)

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.