Floé Kühnert (born 6 March 1984) is a former

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pole vault Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a #bar, bar. Pole jumping was already practiced by the ...

er. She was successful at a junior level, winning a silver medal at the 1999 World Youth Championships, the gold medal at the 2002 World Junior Championships, and silver at the 2003 European Junior Championships. She competed at the

2004 Olympic Games The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...

, but did not reach the final. Her personal best was 4.41 metres, achieved in June 2002 in

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. As of September 2006, this placed her tenth on the German all-time list in pole vault, behind

Annika Becker Annika Becker (born 12 November 1981) is a retired German pole vaulter. Becker was born in Rotenburg an der Fulda. Her personal best is 4.77 metres, achieved in July 2002 in Wattenscheid Wattenscheid () is a of the city of Bochum. Until 19 ...

, Yvonne Buschbaum,

Carolin Hingst Carolin Tamara Hingst (born 18 September 1980 in Donauwörth) is a German pole vaulter. She finished 10th at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, fourth at the 2005 European Indoor Athletics Championships in Madrid and 10th at the 2005 Wo ...

Anastasija Reiberger Anastasija Steinbeck, née Ryzhikh (born 19 September 1977 in Omsk) is a Russian-born German pole vaulter. She is the older sister of fellow pole vaulter Lisa Ryzih. Her greatest success was the gold medal in the 1999 World Indoor Championship ...

, Silke Spiegelburg, Julia Hütter, Nicole Humbert, Martina Strutz and Christine Adams. She ended her career in 2007 and commenced medical studies in

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Floé Kühnert at Leverkusen - Who's Who
1984 births Living people German female pole vaulters Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Germany 21st-century German sportswomen {{Germany-polevault-bio-stub