Christina Obergföll

Christina Obergföll is a German javelin thrower, born on 22 August 1981 in Lahr in the Black Forest, who represented the club LG Offenburg. She competed at four Olympic Games. She was eliminated in the qualifying round at Athens in 2004, won the silver medal at Beijing in 2008 and again at London in 2012, and placed eighth at Rio de Janeiro in 2016. At the World Championships she took silver in 2005 and 2007, bronze in 2011 and gold in 2013, and she added two European silver medals in 2010 and 2012. She won four German national titles and was named German track and field athlete of the year in 2013, and in 2012 she received the Silver Bay Leaf, the highest sports award in Germany. Her listed personal best is 70.20 metres, thrown in 2007. She is married to her teammate and coach Boris Henry.