Cathleen Tschirch (born 23 July 1979, in

Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...

) is a German sprinter who specialises in the

200 metres The 200 metres, or 200-meter dash, is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400-metre racetrack, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques is needed to successfully run the race. A slight ...

.Athlete biography: Cathleen Tschirch
beijing2008.cn, ret: 30 August 2008 Her personal best time on the individual distance is 22.97 seconds, achieved in August 2007 in

Bochum Bochum (, ; ; ; ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. With a population of 372,348 (April 2023), it is the sixth-largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg) in North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous German federa ...

. She has a personal best of 11.42 seconds in the

100 metres The 100 metres, or 100-meter dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, the dash is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at ...

. At the 2007 World Championships she finished seventh in the

4 × 100 metres relay The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners must begin in the same stagger as for the indiv ...

, together with teammates Katja Wakan, Johanna Kedzierski and

Verena Sailer Verena Sailer (born 16 October 1985 in Illertissen) is a retired German sprinter, who specialised in the 100 metres. Her personal best time is 11.02 seconds, achieved in August 2013. She won the gold medal at the 2010 European Athletics Champions ...

. Tschirch represented

Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics Germany competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, People's Republic of China. A total of 439 athletes were nominated to participate in the Games. The German Olympic Sports Confederation (, ''DOSB'') nominated athletes on 29 May, 23 J ...

Beijing Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...

. She competed in the 4 × 100 metres relay together with Anne Möllinger,

and

Marion Wagner Marion Wagner (born 1 February 1978, in Mainz) is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres. Her personal best time is 11.24 seconds, which was achieved in July 2009 at the German Championships in Ulm. She represents the sport ...

. In their first round heat they placed third behind

Jamaica Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...

and

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and in front of

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

. Their time of 43.59 seconds was the eighth time overall out of sixteen participating nations. With this result they qualified for the final in which they sprinted to a time of 43.28 seconds, which was the fifth place. She competes for TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen.

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* 1979 births Living people Athletes from Dresden Athletes from Bezirk Dresden German female sprinters Olympic athletes for Germany Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics German national athletics champions World Athletics Championships medalists 20th-century German women Olympic female sprinters 21st-century German sportswomen {{Germany-sprint-bio-stub