Gerd Nagel

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Gerd Nagel
Personal information
NationalityGerman
Born22 October 1957 (1957-10-22) (age 68)
Sulingen, Lower Saxony, West Germany
Height1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight74 kg (163 lb)
Sport
CountryFlag of Germany.svg  West Germany
SportAthletics
Event
High jump
ClubLG Frankfurt
Achievements and titles
Personal best2.36 m (1989)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany
Universiade
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1979 Mexico City high jump
European Athletics Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1982 Athens High jump
European Athletics Indoor Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1983 Budapest High Jump
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1990 Glasgow High Jump

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

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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 teams LG Frankfurt and Eintracht Frankfurt and became West German champion in 1979. He also took silver medals in 1980, 1982, 1988 and 1989—every time behind Dietmar Mögenburg—and bronze medals in 1981 and 1987. [4] At the West German indoor championships, Nagel won in 1982 and 1983, took silver in 1986 and 1988, ad bronze in 1987. [5]

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. [6] 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.

International competitions

YearCompetitionVenuePositionNotes
Representing Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany
1979 European Indoor Championships Vienna, Austria 4th 2.24 m
Universiade Mexico City, Mexico1st 2.28 m
1980 European Indoor Championships Sindelfingen, West Germany 13th 2.19 m
1981 Universiade Bucharest, Romania 3rd 2.25 m
World Cup Rome, Italy2nd 2.26 m 1
1982 European Indoor Championships Milan, Italy4th 2.28 m
European Championships Athens, Greece3rd 2.24 m
1983 European Indoor Championships Budapest, Hungary 2nd 2.30 m
Universiade Edmonton, Canada 18th 2.15 m
1984 Olympic Games Los Angeles, United States 18th (q) 2.18 m
1985 World Indoor Games Paris, France8th 2.21 m
Universiade Kobe, Japan 3rd 2.21 m
1986 European Indoor Championships Madrid, Spain12th 2.26 m
1987 World Championships Rome, Italy14th 2.20 m
1988 European Indoor Championships Budapest, Hungary 13th 2.15 m
1990 European Indoor Championships Glasgow, United Kingdom 3rd 2.30 m

1Representing Europe

References

  1. ↑ European Indoor Championships (Men) - GBR Athletics
  2. ↑ 1982 European Indoor Championships - men's high jump - Die Leichtatletik Statistik-Seite
  3. ↑ 1988 European Indoor Championships - men's high jump - Die Leichtatletik Statistik-Seite
  4. ↑ "Deutsche Hallen - Leichtathletik - Meisterschaften (Hochsprung - Herren)". Sport-Komplett. Retrieved 22 November 2025.
  5. ↑ "Leichtathletik - Deutsche Meisterschaften (Hochsprung - Herren)". Sport-Komplett. Retrieved 22 November 2025.
  6. ↑ "„Ewige" Bestenliste der deutschen Leichtathletik" ["Eternal" list of the best in German athletics](PDF). leichtathletik.de (in German). Deutscher Leichtathletik-Verband. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 July 2007.


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