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Katrin Schreiter

German sprinter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ879772 ↗
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Katrin Schreiter (born 24 February 1969 in Arnstadt) is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.

At the 1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Seville Schreiter helped win the gold medal in an indoor world record time of 3:27.22 minutes. The teammates were Sandra Seuser, Annett Hesselbarth and Grit Breuer. At the 1991 World Championships in Athletics Schreiter ran in the heats for the German team who later finished third in the final.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1969, 1991—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1969-02-24. For this dossier, Katrin, Schreiter and German is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Katrin Schreiter” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.