Michael Stolle (born 17 December 1974 in

Buxtehude Buxtehude (; , ), officially the Hanseatic City of Buxtehude (), is a town on the Este River in Northern Germany, belonging to the district of Stade in Lower Saxony. It is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region and attached to the city's S-Ba ...

) is a German

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er. His personal best was 5.95 metres, achieved in August 2000 in

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. This ranks him third among German pole vaulters, only behind Tim Lobinger and

Andrei Tivontchik Andrei Tivontchik (; born 13 July 1970, in Gorkiy) is a former German pole vaulter. He was Olympic bronze medalist at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Tivontchik grew up in the Soviet Union and became a Belarusian citizen after the Soviet di ...

Competition record

References

* 1974 births Living people German male pole vaulters Olympic athletes for Germany Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics People from Buxtehude Athletes from Lower Saxony 20th-century German sportsmen {{Germany-polevault-bio-stub