Christa Wiese

Christa Wiese (born 25 December 1967) is a German former track and field athlete who competed for East Germany in the shot put. She was a world indoor medalist and had a best of 20.50 m (67 ft 3 in).

Christa Wiese

Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  East Germany
World Indoor Championships
	1989 Budapest	Shot put

Born in Templin, Bezirk Neubrandenburg, she became a member of the SC Neubrandenburg sports club.[1] She had the peak of her career in 1989 at the age of twenty-two. At the East German Indoor Athletics Championships she finished runner-up to Heike Hartwig by a margin of one centimetre. Her throw of 20.50 m (67 ft 3 in) was a lifetime best and ranked her second in world indoors that year.[2][3] This performance gained her selection for the 1989 IAAF World Indoor Championships. In the final of the event in Budapest she had a throw of 19.75 m (64 ft 9 ¹⁄₂ in) in the final, which brought her the bronze medal behind West Germany's Claudia Losch and Huang Zhihong of China.[4] This was her first and only major senior medal.

In the outdoor 1989 season she cleared twenty metres exactly at a meet in Schwerin – a mark which placed her in the top ten outdoors that year. Although she did not appear in major international competition in 1990 she ranked eleventh globally with a season's best of 19.97 m (65 ft 6 in), such was the East German women's strength in depth in shot put.[5] She placed third nationally in the shot put both indoors and outdoors that year, which was her last at a high level.[6][7]