Nicole Humbert, née Rieger (born 5 February 1972 in

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) is a retired

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er. Her personal best is 4.51 metres, achieved in July 2001 in

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. This ranks her seventh among German pole vaulters, behind

Annika Becker Annika Becker (born 12 November 1981) is a retired German pole vaulter. Becker was born in Rotenburg an der Fulda. Her personal best is 4.77 metres, achieved in July 2002 in Wattenscheid Wattenscheid () is a Stadtbezirk of the city of Boc ...

Yvonne Buschbaum Balian Buschbaum (born 14 July 1980 in Ulm) is a former German pole vaulter. Life and career Buschbaum competed in women's pole vaulting before his gender transition, winning the title of German Youth Champion multiple times. In 1999 Buschbau ...

Carolin Hingst Carolin Tamara Hingst (born 18 September 1980 in Donauwörth) is a German pole vaulter. She finished 10th at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, fourth at the 2005 European Indoor Athletics Championships The 2005 European Athletics Indoor ...

Anastasija Reiberger Anastasija Reiberger, née Ryzhikh (born 19 September 1977 in Omsk) is a Russian-born German pole vaulter. She is the older sister of fellow pole vaulter Lisa Ryzih. Her greatest success was the gold medal in the 1999 World Indoor Championship ...

Silke Spiegelburg Silke Spiegelburg (born 17 March 1986 in Georgsmarienhütte, Lower Saxony) is a German pole vaulter. She is the younger sister of Richard Spiegelburg. She represented Germany at the Summer Olympics in 2004, 2008 and 2012, as well as having compe ...

and

Julia Hütter Julia Hütter (born 26 July 1983) is a female pole vaulter from Germany. She set her personal best (4.57 metres) on 10 August 2007 at a meet in Leverkusen Leverkusen () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the eastern bank of the R ...

. However, with 4.56 metres Humbert has a better personal best indoor.

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* 1972 births Living people German female pole vaulters Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Germany European Athletics Championships medalists People from Landau Sportspeople from Rhineland-Palatinate {{Germany-polevault-bio-stub