Christa Wiese (born 25 December 1967) is a German former track and field athlete who competed for East Germany in the shot put. She was a world indoor medalist and had a best of 20.50 m (67 ft 3 in). Born in Templin, Bezirk Neubrandenburg, she became a member of the SC Neubrandenburg sports club. She had the peak of her career in 1989 at the age of twenty-two. At the East German Indoor Athletics Championships she finished runner-up to Heike Hartwig by a margin of one centimetre. Her throw of 20.50 m (67 ft 3 in) was a lifetime best and ranked her second in world indoors that year. This performance gained her selection for the 1989 IAAF World Indoor Championships. In the final of the event in Budapest she had a throw of 19.75 m (64 ft 9+1⁄2 in) in the final, which brought her the bronze med