Christel Frese

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Christel Frese (born August 3, 1944 in Lennep ) is a former German sprinter who - starting for the Federal Republic - was successful in the 400-meter run in the late 1960s and early 1970s .

She is 1.65 m tall and weighed 50 kg during her active time.

Christel Frese was able to win a silver and a bronze medal each at the European championships with the German team in the 4 x 400 meter relay . Her greatest successes as a single runner over 400 meters - one gold and two silver - she achieved in the hall.

From 1975 to 1977 she was active as a midfielder for SSG 09 Bergisch Gladbach and won the German championship in 1977 with her . In the first leg against NSG Oberst Schiel held on June 18 in the district town stadium of Bergisch Gladbach , she was substituted in for Gaby Dlugi in a goalless tie in the 52nd minute .

Career

Christel Frese grew up in Meggen and was initially a member of TV Meggen , where she trained under Gerd Manke . In 1964 she came to Cologne to study sports and joined the ASV there . Her trainer was Fredy Wehrmann , who looked after her at 49 German championships.

Frese began her sporting career as a sprinter over 100 and 200 meters. She had her first medal success in 1966 when she came in second at the German championships in the 4 x 100 meter relay with the ASV behind the representative of Hamburger SV . Then she switched to the 400-meter course.

She fought her first international match in 1968 in Buxtehude .

Her successful years were 1969 and 1970.

  • In 1969 she won her first German championship over 400 meters and a bronze medal at the European championships in Athens as the final runner in the 4 x 400 meter relay.
  • In 1970 she improved the German record over 400 meters three times and won the silver medal at the European Cup in Budapest on August 22, 1970. She also became vice European champion in the hall. She secured another second place behind Marilyn Neufville at the open British championships in London.

Christel Frese was denied an individual medal at the open-air European championships twice: in 1969 in Athens the German team did not take part in the individual competitions due to Jürgen May's refusal to start , in 1971 in Helsinki they only made it to the semi-finals due to an injury-related training deficit.

In 1971 she won the ISTAF in Berlin (53.6 s).

She took part in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, after having improved the German record again shortly before, but injured herself in the 400-meter intermediate run and was therefore unable to compete for the relay.

In the course of her career, Christel Frese won nine German and six European championship titles and set 15 German, four European and three world records. She won a total of 26 international fights.

Your personal best times:

  • 100 m : 11.84 s, October 7, 1973, Bonn
  • 200 m : 24.13 s, October 7, 1973, Bonn
  • 400 m: 52.2 s, May 20, 1972, Bonn (electronically stopped: 52.72 s, August 8, 1970, Berlin )
    • Halle: 53.1 s, March 14, 1970, Vienna

In 1975 Christel Frese ended her career as a track and field athlete and became a soccer player. She played for the following clubs one after the other:

She also worked as a trainer for VfL. Later she went to TuS Halberbracht , a village club in Lennestadt , where she initially directed the goalkeeper training and later the training for the girls' soccer team.

Private

From 1968 to 2007 Christel Frese worked as a teacher for sports, mathematics and biology at the Marienschule Euskirchen . One of her students was Silke Rottenberg .

She is a member of the breed association for Hovawarthunde eV under the name Christel Frese-Gerber

Christel Frese is widowed. Their marriage was childless.

successes

Records

  • World records
    • Christel Frese stepped into the public spotlight with a world record, which she ran on September 19, 1969 at the European Athletics Championships in Athens with the 4 x 400 meter relay (team: Christa Czekay , Antje Gleichfeld , Inge Eckhoff and as Final runner Christel Frese). The achieved time of 3: 33.9 minutes was however already undercut the next day by the British and French relay teams.
    • Christel Frese set another world record on March 14, 1970 at the European Indoor Championships in Vienna, when she set the previous unofficial indoor best time of 55.29 s, run in 1968 by Natalja Pechonkina from the Soviet Union, to 53.7 s improved. However, this world record was even shorter than that of Athens: Just one and a half hours later, Marilyn Neufville , who started for Great Britain, won the final in a world record time of 53.0 seconds ahead of Christel Frese in 53.1 seconds.
  • German records
    • Christel Frese ran her first German record on June 15, 1969 in Copenhagen as a member of the 4 x 400 meter relay (cast: Eckhoff, Gleichfeld, Dannenberg and Frese) in 3: 48.4 minutes
    • In 1970 Christel Frese improved the German record over 400 meters that had been held by Helga Henning three times :
      52.7 s, achieved on July 16 in the international match between Germany and the USA in Stuttgart,
      52.6 s, achieved on August 8 in Berlin,
      52.4 s, scored on October 11th. With this performance she was in third place on the world's best list of the year.
    • In 1972 Christel Frese set another record:
      52.2 s, achieved on May 20 in Bonn. However, this record no longer appears in the DLV lists , since the GDR athlete Helga Seidler had already run the 400 meters in 52.2 s a year earlier and the record lists of the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR were merged.

Olympic games

  • Olympic Games 1972 in Munich
    • At first everything went according to plan. Christel Frese won her preliminary run in 52.89 s and was able to throw the Olympic champion of Mexico, Colette Besson , out of the race as fourth of the intermediate run in 53.01 s . But then she had bad luck with injuries in the semifinals. In order to qualify for the final, however, she would have had to run under 52 seconds, as fourth-placed, later bronze medalist Kathy Hammond , scored 51.92 seconds.

European championships

  • 400 m open air
    • 1969 Athens: Not started (boycott of the German team because Jürgen May refused to start )
    • 1971 Helsinki: first run (54.4 s), intermediate run 6. (54.1 s)
  • 400 m hall
  • 4 × 400 m
    • 1969 Athens bronze (3: 32.7 min), team: Czekay, Gleichfeld, Eckhoff, Frese. The world record set on September 19, 1969 with 3: 33.9 minutes only lasted until the next day.
    • 1971 Helsinki Silver (3: 33.04 min), Team: Rückes, Frese, Falck, Bödding (Eckhoff)
  • 4 × 2 round hall
    • 1972 Grenoble Gold (3: 10.4 min), team: Wilden, Weinstein, Frese, Bödding

European Cup

  • 1970, semi-final in Berlin: Winner (53.5 s)
  • 1970, final in Budapest:
    Silver 400 m (53.5 s) behind Helga Fischer (GDR) (53.2 s) and in front of Wera Popkowa (USSR) (54.0 s)
    Silver 4 × 400 m (3: 37.2 min) behind the GDR (3: 37.0 min) and ahead of Great Britain (3: 37.8 min)

German championships

  • 400 m
    • 1969 champion (54.3 s)
    • 1970 champion (52.6 s)
    • 1971 Second behind Inge Bödding and ahead of Anette Rückes
    • 1972 second behind Rita Wilden and ahead of Anette Rückes
    • 1973 third behind Rita Wilden and Erika Weinstein
  • 400 m hall
    • 1969 champion (56.4 s)
    • 1970 champion (55.2 s)
    • 1972 champion (54.0 s)
    • 1973 Champion (53.7 s)
  • Cross, short distance team (ASV Köln)
    • 1970 Champion (Team: Merten, Frese, Theißen)
    • 1971 Champion (Team: Frese, Theißen, Windbrake)
    • 1974 Champion (Team: Frese, Theißen, Windbrake)
  • 3 × 800 m relay (ASV Cologne)
    • 1970 Champion (Team: Windbrake, Frese, Theißen)
  • 4 × 400 m relay (TuS 04 Leverkusen)
    • 1975 Champion (Team: Frese, Weinstein, Wellmann, Wilden)
    German championships over 4 × 400 m women were held for the first time in 1975.

AAA championships

literature

  • Uli Selter: Christel Frese from Meggen. In: Kreisheimatbund Olpe eV (Hrsg.): Südsauerland. Voices from the Olpe district. Issue 2/2008, pp. 193-196.
  • Bernd Hamer: Bergisches Olympiabuch. Part 1: Solingen and Remscheid: The participants of the Olympic Games, Paralympics and Deaflympics. Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2008, p. 31 f.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ TuS Halberbracht: Girls' Football ( Memento from March 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Frese, Christel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerber, Christel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sprinter
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Lennep