Kerstin Walther

Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  East Germany
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1983 Helsinki 4×400 m relay

Kerstin Walther (born 15 April 1961 in Altenburg, Thuringia) is a retired East German sprinter.

She won both the 100 metres, the 200 metres and the 4×100 metres relay at the 1979 European Athletics Junior Championships.[1] At the 1983 World Championships she won a gold medal in the 4×400 metres relay.

Walther represented the sports club SC DHfK Leipzig, and won a silver medal at the East German championships in 1983 (400 metres).[2] Her personal best times were 11.34 in the 100 metres, achieved in May 1982 in Jena,[3] 22.34 in the 200 metres, achieved in June 1984 in Erfurt[4] and 51.12 in the 400 metres, achieved in May 1983 in Jena.[5]

Walther is 1.75 metres tall; during her active career she weighed 65 kg.

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