Christiane Brinkmann
Christiane Brinkmann is a retired athlete who represented West Germany. She specialized in the 400 metres sprint and ran for the club LG Bayer Leverkusen.
On 30 January 1981 in Dortmund she ran a new world [records in athletics|world record] of 3:34,38 minutes in 4 x [400 metres relay] with the West German national team. The team consisted of Heidi-Elke Gaugel, Christina Sussiek, Christiane Brinkmann and Gaby Bußmann.
At the 1982 [European Championships in Athletics] she finished fourth in 4 × 400 m relay with teammates Ute Finger, Heike Schmidt and Gaby Bußmann.