Malte Mohr (born 24 July 1986) is a German

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er. At the

2009 World Athletics Championships The 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics () were held in Berlin, Germany from 15–23 August 2009. The majority of events took place in the Olympiastadion, while the marathon and racewalking events started and finished at the Brandenburg ...

, Mohr finished in 14th place with a vault of 5.50 metres. At the

2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships The 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics was held between 12 and 14 March at the Aspire Dome in Doha, Qatar. The championships was the first of six IAAF World Athletics Series events to take place in 2010. Bidding and organisation Th ...

, Mohr was runner-up behind

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with a vault of 5.70 metres.

Career

He was eliminated in the qualifying round of the

2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships The 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held in Turin, Italy, from Friday, 6 March to Sunday, 8 March 2009. The championships took place at the Oval Lingotto indoor arena

, but two years later he reached the podium at the 2011 European Indoors with a clearance of 5.71 m for the bronze medal. He reached 5.85 m at the

2011 World Championships in Athletics The 13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics () was an international athletics competition that was held in Daegu, South Korea. It started on 27 August 2011 and finished on 4 September 2011. The United States topped the medal standings in th ...

, which brought him fifth place. He placed one position higher than that at the

2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships The 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics was the 14th edition of the global-level indoor track and field competition and was held between March 9–11, 2012 at the Ataköy Athletics Arena in Istanbul, Turkey. It was the first of four ...

.Mohr Malte
IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-06-24. After winning at the

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, he improved his personal best to 5.91 m at a meeting in

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in June 2012. Mohr was nominated to participate in the men's pole vault at the

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, where he finished in 9th place with a vault of 5.50 m.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mohr, Malte 1986 births Living people German male pole vaulters German national athletics champions Sportspeople from Bochum Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Germany

Career

Competition record

Personal bests

See also

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