Christine Spielberg

Christine Spielberg also known as Christa Spielberg is a former German track and field athlete who competed in the women's discus throw and comepeted at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Biography

She claimed the gold medal at the 1966 European Championships in the discus throw event.
Speilberg set the world record on 26 May 1968, reaching in Regis-Breitingen and on 20 July finished second behind Karin Illgen at the British 1968 WAAA Championships.
She represented East Germany at the 1968 Olympic Games and placed seventh in the final. She had the second-best throw of her career in the 1970 season, throwing which ranked her fifth in the world that year. In the last major outing, she finished eighth at the 1971 European Athletics Championships. Her season's best of that year made her the seventh best thrower for the season and was the final time she ranked in the top ten globally.