Gerd Nagel is a retired West German

West Germany

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 high jump

High jump

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Career

He won the 1982 European Championships

1982 European Championships in Athletics

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 and finished fourteenth at the 1987 World Championships

1987 World Championships in Athletics

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. At the European Indoor Championships he won the silver in 1983

1983 European Indoor Championships in Athletics

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 and a bronze in 1990

1990 European Indoor Championships in Athletics

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, and finished fourth in 1982

1982 European Indoor Championships in Athletics

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 and thirteenth in 1988

1988 European Indoor Championships in Athletics

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He represented the sports team LG Frankfurt and became West German champion in 1979.

His personal best jump was 2.35 metres, achieved in August 1988 in Forbach

Forbach

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. This result ranks him fifth among German high jumpers, behind Carlo Thränhardt

Carlo Thränhardt

Carlo Thränhardt is a former German high jumper, who won the silver medal at the 1981 European Indoor Championships in Grenoble. He excelled at indoor competitions, setting the world indoor record on three occasions between 1984-88...

, Gerd Wessig

Gerd Wessig

Gerd Wessig was an East German high jumper who won a gold medal in the 1980 Summer Olympics....

, Dietmar Mögenburg

Dietmar Mögenburg

Dietmar Mögenburg is a former German high jumper who won gold medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and at the 1982 European Championships in Athletics in Athens.-Career:...

 and Martin Buß

Martin Buß

Martin Buß is a German high jumper who won the gold medal at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is a five-time national champion for Germany in the men's high jump event....

. He had a better indoor jump with 2.36 metres, achieved in March 1989 in Sulingen. The Internationales Hochsprung-Meeting Eberstadt

Internationales Hochsprung-Meeting Eberstadt

The Internationales Hochsprung-Meeting is an annual high jumping competition which takes place in Eberstadt, Germany. Established as a men's competition in 1979, it quickly became an important meeting in the high jump calendar, with Jacek Wszoła setting a world record in 1980, and Zhu Jianhua...

in June 1979, when Nagel, Thränhardt and Mögenburg improved the West German record from 2.26 m to 2.30 m, marked the first time three jumpers had cleared this height in the same competition.