Michael Stolle (born 17 December 1974 in

Buxtehude Buxtehude (), officially the Hanseatic City of Buxtehude (german: Hansestadt Buxtehude, nds, Hansestadt Buxthu ()), is a town on the Este River in Northern Germany, belonging to the district of Stade in Lower Saxony. It is part of the Hamburg ...

) 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 was 5.95 metres, achieved in August 2000 in

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. This ranks him third among German pole vaulters, only behind Tim Lobinger and

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 ...

Competition record

References

* 1974 births Living people German male pole vaulters Olympic athletes of Germany Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics People from Buxtehude Sportspeople from Lower Saxony {{Germany-polevault-bio-stub