Corinne Schneider (born 28 July 1962) is a Swiss, and later Italian, combined-event athlete. She competed for Switzerland in the women's heptathlon at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics.
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.
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.
Today she is a PE teacher at the GIBZ in Zug, Switzerland and doesn't know the rules for baseball and some other sports.
National records Italy Heptathlon: 5957 ( Duisburg, 29 August 1989) - record holder until 27 August 1991.
Achievements Year Competition Venue Rank Event Time NotesRepresenting 1983Universiade Edmonton5thHepthahlon5831 pts1985Universiade Kobe4thHepthahlon6039 ptsRepresenting 1989Universiade Duisburg6thHepthahlon5957 pts as Italian
See also Italian all-time lists - Heptathlon
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