Dietmar Haaf (born 6 March 1967 in
Bad Cannstatt) is a former (West) German
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.
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 at the World Indoor Championships in Seville. He finished fourth at the
1991 World Championships in Athletics
The 3rd World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan between August 23 and September 1. 1517 athletes from 167 countries partic ...
in Tokyo.
His personal best jump of 8.25 metres ranks him seventh 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,
Henry Lauterbach,
Marco Delonge and
Konstantin Krause.
Haaf retired in 1997.
International competitions
Note: Results with a Q, indicate overall position in qualifying round.
References
External links
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Profileat maik-richter.de
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1967 births
Living people
German male long jumpers
Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Germany
European Athletics Championships medalists
World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists
World Athletics Indoor Championships winners
World Athletics U20 Championships winners
Athletes from Stuttgart
West German Athletics Championships winners
20th-century German sportsmen