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Gerd Nagel

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Gerd Nagel
Personal information
NationalityGerman
Born22 October 1957
Sulingen, Lower Saxony, West Germany
Height1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight74 kg (163 lb)
Sport
Country West Germany
SportAthletics
EventHigh jump
ClubLG Frankfurt
Achievements and titles
Personal best2.36 m (1989)
Medal record
Men's Athletics
Representing  West Germany
Universiade
Gold medal – first place 1979 Mexico City high jump
European Athletics Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1982 Athens High jump
European Athletics Indoor Championships
Silver medal – second place 1983 Budapest High Jump
Bronze medal – third place 1990 Glasgow High Jump

Gerd Nagel (born 22 October 1957 in Sulingen, Lower Saxony) is a retired West German high jumper.

Biography

He won the 1979 University Games and finished fourteenth at the 1987 World Championships. At the European Indoor Championships he won the silver in 1983 and a bronze in 1990,[1] and finished fourth in 1982[2] and thirteenth in 1988.[3]

He represented the sports team LG Frankfurt and became West German champion in 1979.[4]

His personal best jump was 2.35 metres, achieved in August 1988 in Forbach. This result ranks him fifth among German high jumpers, behind Carlo Thränhardt, Gerd Wessig, Dietmar Mögenburg and Martin Buß. He had a better indoor jump with 2.36 metres, achieved in March 1989 in Sulingen.[5] The Internationales Hochsprung-Meeting Eberstadt in June 1979, when Nagel, Thränhardt and Mögenburg improved the West German record from 2.26 m to 2.30 m, marked the first time three jumpers had cleared this height in the same competition.

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