Christiane Pielke

Christiane Staffeldt
Personal information
Surname:	Christiane Staffeldt
Nation:	Germany
Swimming style (s) :	Freestyle
Society:	SGS Hanover
Birthday:	May 12, 1963
Place of birth:	Hanover
Size:	1.78 m
Weight:	62 kg
Medal table

Christiane Staffeldt (born May 12, 1963 in Hanover ), née Pielke , is a former German swimmer who competed for the Federal Republic of Germany . She won an Olympic medal in 1984.

Christiane Pielke began competitive sport in 1973 and was one of the top West German swimmers for ten years from 1979. She started for SGS Hannover . In 1981 she took part in the European Championships for the first time. As third in the German Championships in 1984 over 100 meters freestyle, she qualified for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. There she finished fifth on the 200-meter medley course in 2:17:82 minutes after setting an Olympic record in 2: 19.17 minutes in the first heat, which Nancy Hogshead , however, almost lost in the third heat three seconds improved. With the 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay consisting of Iris Zscherpe , Susanne Schuster , Christiane Pielke and Karin Seick , she won the bronze medal behind the relay from the United States and the Netherlands.

At the European Championships in Sofia in 1985, the relay team won the silver medal in the same line-up behind the relay from the GDR, which was missing in 1984 because of the Olympic boycott, and before the relay from the Netherlands. In 1987 Christiane Pielke won her first individual title at the German Championships over 50 meters freestyle. At the European Championships in 1987 in Strasbourg, she finished third behind the Romanian Tamara Costache and Katrin Meissner from the GDR over this distance , thus winning her first international individual medal. Together with Stephanie Bofinger , Svenja Schlicht and Karin Seick, Pielke swam another bronze medal with the freestyle relay. In 1988 Staffeldt was not only able to defend her German championship title over 50 meters freestyle, but also won over 100 meters. At the Olympic Games in 1988 she started on both routes, but only reached the B final over 50 meters, in which she was second, i.e. tenth overall. With the season she finished seventh.

literature

• National Olympic Committee for Germany: Seoul 1988. The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany. Frankfurt am Main 1988

Web links

• Christiane Pielke in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• European Championships 50 meters freestyle
• European Freestyle Relay Championships