Christiane Pilz

Christiane Pilz is a German triathlete born on 3 August 1975. She spent thirteen years as a sailor and swimmer before turning to triathlon at the age of twenty, and from 1997 she raced for PSV Rostock, collecting several national titles in triathlon and duathlon. Internationally she placed twelfth at the 1999 European Championships in Funchal and won her first medal at the 2000 World University Triathlon Championships in Tiszaújváros. Her first major title came at the 2002 European Cup in Hamburg. An elbow injury from a cycling accident ended her 2004 Olympic place, but a seventh-place finish at the Madrid World Cup earned her the last German berth for Beijing 2008, where she finished twenty-sixth of 55 in 2:03:46. She is a member of SC Neubrandenburg and works as a police official in Rostock.