Bo Kanda Lita Baehre (born 29 April 1999 in

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in th ...

) is a German athlete specialising in the

pole vault Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the Myc ...

. He won a silver medal at the 2017 European U20 Championships. His personal bests in the event are 5.90 metres outdoors (Berlin 2022) and 5.81 metres indoors (Düsseldorf 2022).

Personal life

Born in Germany, he is of DR Congolese descent through his father. He is a cousin of a British footballer,

Leroy Lita Leroy Halirou Bohari Lita (born 28 December 1984) is an English footballer who plays for Nuneaton Borough. Lita was a product of the Chelsea youth system but never made a first-team appearance for the club; in 2002, he moved to Bristol City and ...

International competitions

¹No mark in the final

References

1999 births Living people Athletes from Düsseldorf German male pole vaulters World Athletics Championships athletes for Germany German national athletics champions German sportspeople of Democratic Republic of the Congo descent LG Bayer Leverkusen athletes Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Germany European Athletics Championships medalists {{Germany-polevault-bio-stub