Christian Thomas (born 31 March 1965) is a retired
West German
West Germany was the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until its reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. It is sometimes known as the Bonn Republic after its capital c ...
long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...
er.
Thomas represented the sports club
TV Heppenheim. His personal best jump was 8.21 metres, achieved in July 1994 in
Germering
Germering (; Central Bavarian: ''Geamaring'') is a Town#Germany, town of approximately 40,500 within the Fürstenfeldbruck (district), district of Fürstenfeldbruck, in Bavaria, Germany. It is directly adjacent to the city of Munich and borders it ...
. This ranks him tenth among German long jumpers, behind
Lutz Dombrowski
Lutz Dombrowski (born 25 June 1959) is a former German people, German track and field athlete and Olympic champion.
Early life
Dombrowski was born in 1959 in Zwickau. Wilhelm Pieck, who at the time of Dombrowski's birth was Leadership of ...
,
Frank Paschek,
Josef Schwarz
Josef "Sepp" Schwarz (born 20 May 1941 in Strabowitz, Sudetenland, 9.Germany; today Třebovice, Czech Republic) is a retired German long jumper. He represented West Germany at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Schwarz set the world's best year p ...
,
Henry Lauterbach
Henry Lauterbach (born 22 October 1957 in Buttstädt, Bezirk Erfurt) is a retired East German high jumper and long jumper.
In the high jump he finished fourth at the 1978 European Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia and sixth at the 1979 ...
,
Marco Delonge,
Konstantin Krause
Konstantin Krause (born 8 October 1967, in Bad Langensalza) is a retired German long jumper.
He won the silver medal at the 1992 European Indoor Championships. He represented the sports clubs TV Wattenscheid, TV Heppenheim and LG Ohra/Hörsel, ...
,
Dietmar Haaf
Dietmar Haaf (born 6 March 1967 in Bad Cannstatt) is a former (West) German long jumper.
Career
He won the gold medal at the 1990 European Championships in Split in a personal best jump of 8.25 metres. The following year he won the gold medal ...
,
Ron Beer
Ron Beer (born 29 August 1965) is a retired East German long jumper.
He won the gold medal at the 1983 European Junior Championships and finished seventh at the 1987 European Indoor Championships. He represented the sports club SC Dynamo Berlin ...
and
Uwe Lange, and equal to
Georg Ackermann and
Nils Winter.
Achievements
References
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1965 births
Living people
West German male long jumpers
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