Background
Richter is also the sister of Jürgen Richter, a springboard diver who competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, and granddaughter of Liesl Perkaus, a multiple-time Austrian track and field champion, and a discus thrower who competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.
Career
At age nineteen, Richter made her official debut for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where she placed eleventh in the women"s platform, with a score of 408.45. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Richter, however, fell short in her bid for a twelve-woman final, when she finished fifteenth in the women"s platform by six points behind Germany"s Annett Gamm, with a total score of 472.44. Twelve years after competing in her first Olympics, Richter qualified for her fourth Austrian team, as a 30-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
She placed twenty-second out of twenty-nine divers in the preliminary round of the women"s platform event, by two points behind France"s Audrey Labeau, with a total score of 287.70.
Shortly after the Olympics, Richter announced her retirement from diving career to work as a lecturer and officer for the Ministry of National Defense and Sport.