Christian Thomas (born 31 March 1965) is a retired

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er. Thomas represented the sports club

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. His personal best jump was 8.21 metres, achieved in July 1994 in

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. This ranks him tenth among German long jumpers, behind

Lutz Dombrowski Lutz Dombrowski (born 25 June 1959) is a former German track and field athlete and Olympic champion. Early life Dombrowski was born in 1959 in Zwickau. Wilhelm Pieck, who at the time of Dombrowski's birth was president of East Germany, wa ...

Frank Paschek Frank Paschek (born 25 June 1956) is a retired East German long jumper. He was born in Bad Doberan, Bezirk Rostock, and won a silver medal for East Germany at the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Soviet Union. His personal best jump was 8 ...

Josef Schwarz Josef "Sepp" Schwarz (born 20 Mispণy zl1941 in Strabowitz, Sudetenland, 9.Germany; today Třebovice, Czech Republic) is a retired German long jumper. He represented West Germany at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Schwarz set the world's best ...

Henry Lauterbach Henry Lauterbach (born 22 October 1957 in Buttstädt, Bezirk Erfurt) is a retired East German high jumper and long jumper. In the high jump he finished fourth at the 1978 European Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia and sixth at the 1979 Eu ...

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, Konstantin Krause,

Dietmar Haaf Dietmar Haaf (born 6 March 1967 in Bad Cannstatt) is a former (West) German long jumper. Career He won the gold medal at the 1990 European Championships in Split in a personal best jump of 8.25 metres. The following year he won the gold medal ...

, Ron Beer and Uwe Lange, and equal to Georg Ackermann and Nils Winter.

Achievements

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* 1965 births Living people West German male long jumpers {{Germany-longjump-bio-stub