Dietmar Mögenburg

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Medal record
Men’s Athletics
Competitor for  West Germany
Olympic Games
Gold	1984 Los Angeles	High Jump
European Championships
Gold	1982 Athens	High Jump

Dietmar Mögenburg (born August 15, 1961 in Leverkusen) is a former (West) German high jumper who won gold medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and at the 1982 European Championships in Athletics in Athens.

On May 26, 1980, at the age of 18, Mögenburg jumped 2.35m which tied the world outdoor record set by Jacek Wszoła of Poland. At the time, this mark also established a new world outdoor junior record. He would later establish a new world indoor mark of 2.39m on February 24, 1985, in Cologne, Germany.

[edit] References

• IAAF profile for Dietmar Mögenburg

Records
Preceded by Jacek Wszola	Men's High Jump World Record Holder equalled the 2.35 mark by Jacek Wszola (POL) 1980-05-26 – 1980-08-01	Succeeded by Gerd Wessig
Sporting positions
Preceded by Vladimir Yashchenko	Men's High Jump Best Year Performance 1979	Succeeded by Gerd Wessig

v • d • e Olympic Champions in Men's High Jump 1896: Ellery Clark · 1900: Irving Baxter · 1904: Samuel Jones · 1906: Cornelius Leahy · 1908: Harry Porter · 1912: Alma Richards · 1920: Richmond Landon · 1924: Harold Osborn · 1928: Robert Wade King · 1932: Duncan McNaughton · 1936: Cornelius Johnson · 1948: John Winter · 1952: Buddy Davis · 1956: Charles Dumas · 1960: Robert Shavlakadze · 1964: Valeriy Brumel · 1968: Dick Fosbury · 1972: Jüri Tarmak · 1976: Jacek Wszoła · 1980: Gerd Wessig · 1984: Dietmar Mögenburg · 1988: Gennadiy Avdeyenko · 1992: Javier Sotomayor · 1996: Charles Austin · 2000: Sergey Klyugin · 2004: Stefan Holm · 2008: Andrey Silnov

v • d • e European Champions in men's High Jump 1934: Kalevi Kotkas (FIN) • 1938: Kurt Lundqvist (SWE) • 1946: Anton Bolinder (SWE) • 1950: Alan Paterson (GBR) • 1954: Bengt Nilsson (SWE) • 1958: Richard Dahl (SWE) • 1962: Valeriy Brumel (URS) • 1966: Jacques Madubost (FRA) • 1969: Valentin Gavrilov (URS) • 1971: Kęstutis Šapka (URS) • 1974: Jesper Tørring (DEN) • 1978: Vladimir Yashchenko (URS) • 1982: Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG) • 1986: Igor Paklin (URS) • 1990: Dragutin Topić (YUG) • 1994: Steinar Hoen (NOR) • 1998: Artur Partyka (POL) • 2002: Yaroslav Rybakov (RUS) • 2006: Andrey Silnov (RUS)

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