Christa jewelry

Christa jewelry
nation	BR Germany
birthday	January 26, 1944
place of birth	Salt mountain
size	165 cm
Weight	65 kg
Career
discipline	Single seater
society	RC Berchtesgaden
status	resigned
End of career	1972
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 1 × EM medals 1 × 0 × 1 × DM medals 4 × ? × ? ×
winter Olympics silver 1968 Grenoble Single seater  Luge World Championships bronze 1969 Königssee Single seater silver 1970 Königssee Single seater  European Luge Championships gold 1967 Königssee Single seater bronze 1970 Hammarstrand Single seater German championships gold 1966 Königssee Single seater gold 1968 Hahnenklee Single seater gold 1969 Königssee Single seater gold 1970 Hahnenklee Single seater
last change: January 14, 2012

Christa Schmuck (born January 26, 1944 in Salzberg ) is a former German luge athlete who started for RC Berchtesgaden .

The four-time German luge champion (1966, 1968, 1969, 1970) Christa Schmuck celebrated her greatest success by winning the European Championship in 1967 in Königssee . She benefited from the absence of the GDR athletes around Ortrun Enderlein and Petra Tierlich , who were unable to take part in the race due to the Hallstein doctrine and had dominated the world championships in Hammarstrand a few days earlier . Schmuck finished fifth in the 1967 World Cup, almost 2 seconds behind world champion Ortrun Enderlein.

At the 1968 Olympic Games in Grenoble , she profited from the controversial disqualification of the tobogganers Ortrun Enderlein (1st place), Anna-Maria Müller (2) and Angela Knösel (4) from the GDR, who were subject to unauthorized heating of their runners (" Kufenskandal ") was accused. Behind Erika Lechner from Italy, she finished second after three races. She had her medal auctioned in 2010.

For winning the silver medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics, she was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on November 27, 1968.

Other top positions in international championships were third place at the 1969 World Championships and second place at the 1970 World Championships in Königssee. At the World Championships in 1971 in Olang she reached eighth place, at the 1972 Olympic Games in Sapporo, at the end of her career, she finished 10th.

Web links

• Christa Schmuck in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sports report of the federal government of September 29, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 7/1040 - page 56.