Mateusz Przybylko (born 9 March 1992) is a German

high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

er of Polish descent. He won the gold medal at the

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Career

A member of Germany's track and field squad at the

2015 IAAF World Championships The 2015 IAAF World Championships ( zh, 第十五届世界田径锦标赛), the fifteenth edition of the IAAF World Championships, were held from 22 to 30 August at the National Stadium in Beijing, China. Forty-three nations won medals, 144 of ...

and the

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, Przybylko cleared a personal best of 2.35 m. Przybylko currently trains for the track and field squad at TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen under the tutelage of his coach Hans-Jörg Thomaskamp. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in

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, Przybylko competed for Germany, along with his fellow countryman

Eike Onnen Eike Onnen (born 3 August 1982 in Hannover) is a German high jumper. He comes from a sporting family with sister Imke also being a high jumper while mother Astrid Fredebold-Onnen a former heptathlete. He finished seventh at the 2007 World Ch ...

, in the men's high jump. Leading up to his maiden Games, Przybylko jumped a height of 2.30 metres to surpass the IAAF Olympic entry standard (2.29) by a single centimetre at the 2015 Kurpfalz Gala in

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. During the qualifying phase, Przybylko elected to pass 2.17 at his second attempt and remained clean at 2.22, before he could not reach the 2.26-metre barrier with all three misses, ending his Olympic campaign in twenty-eighth place. Przybylko also came from a sporting family of Polish origin. Mateusz's father Mariusz previously played for one of his native country's regional football clubs, while his mother Violetta ran for the Polish track and field team in her youth. Mateusz's younger brothers and twins Kacper and Jakub inherited their father's sporting talent to compete internationally for Poland in football.

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* * * * Living people 1992 births Sportspeople from Bielefeld Athletes from Detmold (region) German male high jumpers Olympic male high jumpers Olympic athletes for Germany Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Germany European Athletics Championships winners German national athletics champions German people of Polish descent 21st-century German sportsmen {{Germany-highjump-bio-stub