Lars Börgeling (born 16 April 1979, in
Neuss
Neuss (; spelled ''Neuß'' until 1968; li, Nüss ; la, Novaesium) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the west bank of the Rhine opposite Düsseldorf. Neuss is the largest city within the Rhein-Kreis Neuss district. It ...
) is a German
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 ...
er.
His personal best is 5.85 metres, achieved in July 2002 in
Leverkusen
Leverkusen () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the eastern bank of the Rhine. To the south, Leverkusen borders the city of Cologne, and to the north the state capital, Düsseldorf.
With about 161,000 inhabitants, Leverkusen is on ...
.
This ranks him ninth among German pole vaulters, behind
Tim Lobinger
Tim Lobinger (3 September 1972 – 16 February 2023) was a German pole vaulter.
Career
Lobinger's discipline was pole vault and he was an elite competitor from the 1990s. His best results came in 1997 and 1999 when he jumped over 6.00 meters. ...
,
Andrei Tivontchik
Andrei Tivontchik ( be, Андрэй Цівончык; born 13 July 1970, in Gorkiy) is a former German pole vaulter. He was Olympic bronze medalist at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
Tivontchik grew up in the Soviet Union and became a Bela ...
,
Michael Stolle
Michael Stolle (born 17 December 1974 in Buxtehude) is a German pole vaulter.
His personal best was 5.95 metres, achieved in August 2000 in Monaco. This ranks him third among German pole vaulters, only behind Tim Lobinger and Andrei Tivontchik
...
,
Danny Ecker
Daniel "Danny" Ecker (born 21 July 1977 in Leverkusen) is a former German athlete competing in the pole vault.
Biography
His current personal best is 5.93 metres, but through his indoor best performance of 6.00 metres he has a place in the ...
,
Richard Spiegelburg,
Malte Mohr,
Björn Otto
Björn Otto (born 16 October 1977) is a retired German pole vaulter.
On 30 January 2013 in Cottbus, Germany, with the mark of 5.90 m, he set the masters world record M35.
Biography
His personal best is a jump of 6.01 metres, achieved on 5 Sept ...
and
Raphael Holzdeppe
Raphael Marcel Holzdeppe (born 28 September 1989) is a German pole vaulter, who was world champion at his event. He lives in Zweibrücken in Germany and represents the sports club LAZ Zweibrücken.
Biography
Holzdeppe, who is of African origin, w ...
Achievements
See also
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Athletics in Germany#Pole vault, Germany all-time top lists - Pole vault
References
External links
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Sporting Heroes
1979 births
Living people
German male pole vaulters
German national athletics champions
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Germany
European Athletics Championships medalists
Sportspeople from Neuss
21st-century German people
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