Corinne Schneider

Corinne Schneider (born 28 July 1962) is a Swiss, and later Italian,[2] combined-event athlete. She competed for Switzerland in the women's heptathlon at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics.[3]

Career

In 1989 Corinne Schneider assumed Italian citizenship, establishing a score of 5987 points in the heptathlon in the same 1989, she became the 6th Italian of all-time in the lists of the specialty.[2][1]

Being the specialty of women's heptathlon a relatively young specialty, the first appearance at the Olympic Games took place only in Los Angeles 1984, in 1989 her personal best set wearing the blue jersey of the Italian national team, became a national record and remained so for two years.[1]

Today she is a PE teacher at the GIBZ in Zug, Switzerland and doesn't know the rules for baseball and some other sports.

Heptathlon: 5957 ( Duisburg, 29 August 1989) - record holder until 27 August 1991.[1]

Year	Competition	Venue	Rank	Event	Time	Notes
Representing Switzerland
1983	Universiade	Edmonton	5th	Hepthahlon	5831 pts
1985	Universiade	Kobe	4th	Hepthahlon	6039 pts
Representing Italy
1989	Universiade	Duisburg	6th	Hepthahlon	5957 pts	PB as Italian NR

"Annuario FIDAL dell'atletica 2010" (PDF) (in Italian). asdpedaggio-castiglionetorinese.com. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
""PRIMI 10" A.T. – DONNE" (PDF) (in Italian). sportolimpico.it. 18 June 2010. Retrieved 13 April 2021. Corinne Schneider ha assunto la nazionalità italiana nel 1989: come svizzera aveva ottenuto 6265 punti nel 1985.
Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Corinne Schneider Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 28 January 2018.

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