Ellen Kiessling

Ellen Kiessling
Ellen Kießling (left) with Yvonne Mai and Sigrun Wodars (1989)
nation	German Democratic Republic of Germany
birthday	17th February 1968 (age 52)
place of birth	Freital
size	165 cm
Weight	52 kg
Career
discipline	Middle distance run
Best performance	800 m: 1: 59.41 min 1500 m: 4: 04.44 min
society	SC unit Dresden Dresdner SC ASV Cologne
status	resigned
Medal table
Indoor world championships 0 × 0 × 1 × European championships 0 × 1 × 0 × European Indoor Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × U19 European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Indoor world championships bronze Budapest 1989 800 m  European championships silver Split 1990 1500 m  European Indoor Championships silver The Hague 1989 800 m  Junior European Championships bronze Cottbus 1985 800 m

Ellen Kießling , divorced Buchleitner (born February 17, 1968 in Freital ) is a former German athlete and Olympic participant (1992) who was a successful middle-distance runner in the late 1980s and early 1990s .

Career

Her greatest success - starting for the GDR - was second place in the 1500 meter run at the 1990 European Championships in Split .

Ellen Kießling started for the SC Einheit Dresden . In her active days she was 1.65 m tall and weighed 52 kg. She began her athletics career in Pirna with coach Klaus Müller. She started for the GDR team until 1990 and was trained by Katja Hermann.

After the reunification she moved to the Dresdner Sportclub in 1898 and later started for ASV Köln . In 1991 she was fifth over the 1500 m with 4: 04.75 min at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.

In October 1994 she married the Austrian athlete Michael Buchleitner (* 1969), her daughter was born in 1999 and her son in 2008. The two are divorced today.

Ellen Kießling, winner of the 33rd Willi Sänger memorial run in 1988

Sporting successes (selection)

• 1985, European Junior Championships : 3rd place in the 800 meter run (2: 04.85 min)
• 1989, European Indoor Championships : 2nd place in the 800 meter run (2: 01.24 min)
• 1989, World Indoor Championships : 3rd place in the 800 meter run (1: 59.68 min)
• 1990, European Championships : 2nd place in the 1,500 meter run (4: 08.67 min)
• 1991, European Cup final : 3rd place in the 1500 meter run (4: 05.13 min)
• 1991, World Championships 1991 : 5th place in the 1,500 meter run (4: 04.75 min)
• 1992, Olympic Games : Eliminated in the 1500 meter heat

Web links

Commons : Ellen Kießling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ellen Kiessling in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Ellen Kießling in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Ellen Kießling in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DSC - DEPARTMENT • CHRONICLE
2. ↑ World Championships Tokyo 1991 - athletics, 1500 m, women