Christina Rost

Christina Rost (born August 14, 1952 in Chemnitz ; born Christina Mäbert ) is a German handball player .

Christina Rost played for SC Leipzig from 1968 to 1985 as a circle runner. With this she won six GDR championships from 1972 and in 1974 the European Cup , the highest competition for handball club teams in Europe. From 1974 to 1980 Rost played for the GDR women's national handball team and scored a total of 161 goals in 170 international appearances. Her greatest successes in the GDR selection team were winning the world championships in 1975 and 1978 , the 1976 Olympic silver medal in Montréal and four years later the bronze medal in Moscow. For her sporting success she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze in 1976 and 1979 and in 1984 in silver.

She is married to Olympic handball champion Peter Rost . Their son Frank was a soccer goalkeeper and is now a sports official.

literature

• Volker Kluge :  Rost, Christina . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dirk Steinbach: Handball: No life without a ball. In: mz-web.de. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , August 9, 2002, accessed on January 11, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Volker Kluge: Biographical Databases - Rost, Christina. In: bundesstiftung-aufverarbeitung.de. Federal foundation for coming to terms with the SED dictatorship , accessed on January 12, 2019 . 
3. ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required). 
4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , March 2, 1979, p. 4
5. ^ New Germany, 1./2. September 1984, p. 4

Web links

• Christina Rost in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Christina Rost in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )