Georg Ackermann (born 13 July 1972 in

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) is a retired

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. He won a bronze medal at the 1991 European Junior Championships, finished fourth at the 1995 World Championships and won a silver medal at the

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with a personal best of 8.21 metres. Furthermore, he was a member of the German Olympic Team in Atlanta 1996. He represented the sports clubs LG Karlsruhe and

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, and became German champion in 1993 and 1995. His personal best jump of 8.21 metres ranks him tenth among German long jumpers, behind

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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 Nils Winter and Christian Thomas.

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* 1972 births Living people People from Gernsbach Sportspeople from Karlsruhe (region) German male long jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Germany Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Universiade silver medalists for Germany Medalists at the 1995 Summer Universiade {{Germany-longjump-bio-stub