Heike Tischler (born 4 February 1964 in

Saalfeld Saalfeld () is a town in Germany, capital of the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district of Thuringia. It is best known internationally as the ancestral seat of the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha branch of the Saxon House of Wettin. Geography The town is situated ...

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) is a retired

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. She won the silver medal for

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at the

1990 European Championships in Athletics The 15th European Athletics Championships were held from 26 August to 2 September 1990 in Split, Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia. The host stadium was Stadion Poljud. It was the last participation of East Germany (which was already scheduled to be mer ...

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with a personal best score of 6572 points. This ranks her eighth among German heptathletes, behind

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, Anke Behmer-Vater,

Heike Drechsler Heike Gabriela Drechsler (; ; born 16 December 1964) is a German former track and field athlete who represented East Germany and later Germany. One of the most successful long jumpers of all-time, she is a former world record holder and ranks ...

, Ines Schulz and Sibylle Thiele.German all-time lists
At that point, East Germany was already scheduled for

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with

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as modern

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and so this was this the last championship with separate East and West German teams. She entered the 1991 World Championships (competing for reunified Germany), but did not finish the competition. Her daughter

Sophie Weißenberg Sophie Weißenberg (born 24 September 1997) is a German track and field athlete who competes in international elite competitions. She is a World U20 silver medalist in long jump and a European U23 silver medalist in heptathlon A heptathlon i ...

also competes in the heptathlon.

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() ** Silver medal in heptathlon

References

* 1964 births Living people People from Saalfeld East German heptathletes European Athletics Championships medalists Athletes from Thuringia Friendship Games medalists in athletics Sportspeople from Bezirk Gera East German Athletics Championships winners {{Germany-heptathlon-bio-stub