Christina Obergföll

About Christina Obergföll

Christina Obergföll is a German athlete, competing in the javelin throw.

Career Highlights:

• At the 2005 World Championships in Athletics Obergföll won the silver medal with a European record (70.03m) by finishing second behind Osleidys Menéndez, who set a new world record at the same event.
  
• Obergföll finished 4th at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg.
  
• With 70.20m, she improved her own European record at the European Cup Super League meeting in Munich on 23 June 2007.
  
• At the 2008 Summer Olympics she won the bronze medal, but lost the European record to Mariya Abakumova and Barbora Špotáková.
  
• At the 2012 Olympics in London she had her greatest success, when she won a silver medal.
  
• At the 2013 World Championships in Athletics, which was held in Moscow, Russia, Obergföll got the gold with a mark of 69.05 meters, reaching the success that she was always fighting for.
  

Christina Obergföll Achievements

Medal Records:

Olympic Games

• Silver medal –  2012 Summer Olympics Javelin throw
  
• Bronze medal –  2008 Summer Olympics Javelin throw
  

World Championships

• Gold medal –  2013 World Championships in Athletics Javelin throw
  
• Silver medal –  2005 World Championships in Athletics Javelin throw
  
• Silver medal –  2007 World Championships in Athletics Javelin throw
  

European Championships

• Silver medal –  2010 European Athletics Championships Javelin throw
  
• Silver medal –  2012 European Athletics Championships Javelin throw