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East German sprinter
Christina Lathan (née Brehmer ; born 28 February 1958) is a retired
East German
sprinter who specialised in the
400 metres .
Born in
Altdöbern , Brehmer started training in 1969 at the sports club
SG Dynamo Senftenberg , and was transferred to
SC Dynamo Berlin in 1973. At the
1975 European Junior Championships she won three
gold medals , in 400 m,
4 × 100 metres relay and
4 × 400 metres relay .
In 1976 she set world record 49.77 seconds, first electronic time under 50 seconds. The record was broken by
Poland 's
Irena Szewińska a month later. At the
1976 Summer Olympics in
Montreal she won the
silver medal in the 400 m behind Irena Szewinska, as well as a gold medal in the 4 x 400 m relay with her teammates
Brigitte Rohde , 400 m
bronze medalist
Ellen Streidt and
Doris Maletzki .
The next year Lathan won another relay gold medal at the
IAAF World Cup 1977 . At the
1978 European Championships she won a silver medal in the individual event and another gold medal in 4 x 400 m relay, together with teammates
Christiane Marquardt ,
Barbara Krug and
Marita Koch . She then duplicated her World Cup success at the
1979 IAAF World Cup .
She returned to the
1980 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the 400 m behind Marita Koch and
Jarmila Kratochvílová . In the 4 x 400 m relay she was the sole survivor of the 1976 winning team and could only win the silver medal with her teammates
Gabriele Löwe , Barbara Krug and Marita Koch.
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References
1972 :
Dagmar Käsling ,
Rita Kühne ,
Helga Seidler ,
Monika Zehrt (
GDR )
1976 :
Doris Maletzki ,
Brigitte Rohde ,
Ellen Streidt ,
Christina Brehmer (
GDR )
1980 :
Tatyana Prorochenko ,
Tatyana Goyshchik ,
Nina Zyuskova ,
Irina Nazarova (
URS )
1984 :
Lillie Leatherwood ,
Sherri Howard ,
Valerie Brisco-Hooks ,
Chandra Cheeseborough ,
Diane Dixon ,
Denean Howard (
USA )
1988 :
Tatyana Ledovskaya ,
Olga Nazarova ,
Mariya Pinigina ,
Olha Bryzhina ,
Lyudmyla Dzhyhalova (
URS )
1992 :
Yelena Ruzina ,
Lyudmyla Dzhyhalova ,
Olga Nazarova ,
Olha Bryzhina ,
Liliya Nurutdinova ,
Marina Shmonina (
EUN )
1996 :
Rochelle Stevens ,
Maicel Malone-Wallace ,
Kim Graham ,
Jearl Miles ,
Linetta Wilson (
USA )
2000 :
Jearl Miles Clark ,
Monique Hennagan ,
LaTasha Colander ,
Andrea Anderson (
USA )
2004 :
DeeDee Trotter ,
Monique Henderson ,
Sanya Richards ,
Monique Hennagan ,
Moushaumi Robinson (
USA )
2008 :
Mary Wineberg ,
Allyson Felix ,
Monique Henderson ,
Sanya Richards ,
Natasha Hastings (
USA )
2012 :
DeeDee Trotter ,
Allyson Felix ,
Francena McCorory ,
Sanya Richards-Ross ,
Keshia Baker ,
Diamond Dixon (
USA )
2016 :
Allyson Felix ,
Phyllis Francis ,
Natasha Hastings ,
Courtney Okolo ,
Taylor Ellis-Watson ,
Francena McCorory (
USA )
2020 :
Sydney McLaughlin ,
Allyson Felix ,
Dalilah Muhammad ,
Athing Mu ,
Kaylin Whitney ,
Wadeline Jonathas ,
Kendall Ellis ,
Lynna Irby (
USA )
1969 :
Great Britain (
Stirling ,
Lowe ,
Simpson ,
Board )
1971 :
East Germany (
Kühne ,
Lohse ,
Seidler ,
Zehrt )
1974 :
East Germany (
Rohde ,
Dietsch ,
Handt ,
Streidt )
1978 :
East Germany (
Marquardt ,
Krug ,
Brehmer ,
Koch )
1982 :
East Germany (
Siemon ,
Busch ,
Rübsam ,
Koch )
1986 :
East Germany (
Siemon ,
Busch ,
Müller ,
Koch )
1990 :
East Germany (
Derr ,
Hesselbarth ,
Müller ,
Breuer )
1994 :
France (
Landre ,
Elien ,
Dorsile ,
Pérec )
1998 :
Germany (
Feller ,
Rohländer ,
Rieger ,
Breuer )
2002 :
Germany (
Ekpo-Umoh ,
Rockmeier ,
Marx ,
Breuer )
2006 :
Russia (
Pospelova ,
Ivanova ,
Zaytseva ,
Veshkurova )
2010 :
Germany (
Lindenberg ,
Cremer ,
Kohlmann ,
Hoffmann )
2012 :
Ukraine (
Olishevska ,
Zemlyak ,
Pyhyda ,
Lohvynenko )
2014 :
France (
Gayot ,
Hurtis ,
Raharolahy ,
Gueï )
2016 :
Great Britain (
Diamond ,
Onuora ,
Doyle ,
Bundy-Davies )
2018 :
Poland (
Hołub-Kowalik ,
Baumgart-Witan ,
Wyciszkiewicz ,
Święty-Ersetic )
2022 :
Netherlands (
Saalberg ,
Klaver ,
Bol ,
de Witte )
2024 :
Netherlands (
Klaver ,
Peeters ,
de Witte ,
Bol )
1977: East Germany (
Popp ,
Krug ,
Brehmer ,
Koch )
1979: East Germany (
Kotte ,
Brehmer ,
Köhn ,
Koch )
1981: East Germany (
Rübsam ,
Steuk ,
Wöckel ,
Koch )
1985: East Germany (
Emmelmann ,
Busch ,
Neubauer ,
Koch )
1989: Americas (
Crooks ,
Davis ,
Jackson ,
Quirot )
1992: Americas (
Edeh ,
Crooks ,
Carabali ,
Restrepo )
1994: Great Btitain (
Smith ,
Keough ,
Neef ,
Gunnell )
1998: Germany (
Feller ,
Rohländer ,
Urbansky ,
Breuer )
2002: Americas (
Richards ,
Pernía ,
Amertil ,
Guevara )
2006: Americas (
S. Williams ,
Darling ,
Amertil ,
N. Williams )
2010: Americas (
Williams ,
Dunn ,
Wilson ,
Amertil )
2014: Americas (
Day ,
McCorory ,
McPherson ,
Williams-Mills )