Claudia Steger (athlete)

Claudia Steger-Richter , born Steger , (* 24. April 1959 in Augsburg ) is a former German athlete who had to sprint specialized.

As a teenager and junior she was multiple German champion. In 1975 she won the bronze medal with the German 4 x 100 meter relay at the Junior European Championships in Athens . Two years later in Donetsk, the relay won the silver medal. Even more successful was the 4 x 400-meter relay (Friederike Vombohr, Claudia Steger, Ina Wallenburg , Gaby Bußmann ), with the junior world record of 3: 32.8 min Junior European champion was.

In the adult sector, Steger took part in the 1976 Olympic Games . In Montreal she was fifth with the German 4 x 400 meter relay. In 1978 Steger became German champion for the first time, she won the indoor 200-meter run . At the European Championships in the same year she reached sixth place with the 4 x 100 meter relay in Prague, over 200 meters she was eliminated in the intermediate run.

In 1981 Steger won a total of four German championship titles, indoors with the 4-by-200-meter relay and outdoors over 200 meters, as well as with the 4-by-100 and 4-by-400-meter relay. In these three disciplines she also represented the DLV in the same year at the European Cup in Zagreb and came fourth in each case.

In 1982 she took part in the European Indoor Championships in Milan over 200 meters. In the open-air season, Steger was German champion with the 4 x 400 meter relay. At the European Championships in Athens, she started in the 400-meter run , but was eliminated in the preliminary run. She won her last German championships in the hall in 1983 with the 4 x 200 meter relay and in 1984 with the 4 x 100 meter relay.

Steger started for TSV Göggingen and LG Bayer Leverkusen . In 1989 she married the hurdler Wolfgang Richter .

Personal bests

• 100 meters: 11.63 s (1982)
• 200 meters: 22.95 s (1981)
• 400 meters: 52.48 s (1981)

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.

Web links

• Claudia Steger in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )