Christel Frese (born 3 August 1944, in Lennep[1]) is a German former athlete who was successful as a 400-meter runner in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
[1] She won one silver and one bronze medal at European Championships with the 4x400-meter relay of the Federal Republic of Germany.
In 1970, for three times she affirmed the German record over 400 meters and on 22 August 1970 won at the European Cup in Budapest, the silver medal.
Christel Frese failed twice with her single medal at open air European Championships: In 1969 , the West German team proclaimed the refusal to start for Jürgen May in the individual competitions and in 1971, in Helsinki Frese came only to the semifinals due to an injury-related training backlog.
She took part in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, after she had recently improved the German record, but injured in the 400-meter interlude and thus could not compete for the season.
However, this record no longer appears in the lists of the German Athletics Association, as the GDR athlete Helga Seidler had already run 400 meters in 52.2 s the previous year and the record lists of the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR were merged.