Konstantin Krause is a retired German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

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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 take off point...

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He won the silver medal at the 1992 European Indoor Championships

1992 European Indoor Championships in Athletics

The 22nd European Athletics Indoor Championships were held in Genoa, a city in Italy, in 1992. This was the first indoor championship which was the start of the new two year cycle for the games.-Track:-Field:-Medal table:-External links:...

. He represented the sports clubs TV Wattenscheid, TV Heppenheim and LG Ohra/Hörsel, and became German champion in 1998 and 1999.

His personal best jump is 8.27 metres, achieved in June 1997 in Bad Langensalza

Bad Langensalza

Bad Langensalza is a city in the County of Unstrut-Hainich, Thuringia, Germany, with a population of c. 18,500 .-History:...

. This ranks him fifth among German long jumpers, behind Lutz Dombrowski

Lutz Dombrowski

Lutz Dombrowski is a former German track and field athlete and Olympic champion.Dombrowski was the best ever long jumper from the former East Germany. After winning at the European cup in 1979 he won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympic games in Moscow. In 1982, he was European champion. He...

, Frank Paschek

Frank Paschek

Frank Paschek is a retired East German long jumper.He won the silver medal for East Germany at the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Soviet Union....

, Josef Schwarz

Josef Schwarz

Josef Schwarz is a retired German long jumper. He represented West Germany at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Schwarz set the world's best year performance in the men's long jump in the year 1970: 8.35 metres ; this also was the world record at low altitude, until 1975...

 and Henry Lauterbach

Henry Lauterbach

Henry Lauterbach is a retired East German high jumper and long jumper.In the high jump he finished fourth at the 1978 European Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia and sixth at the 1979 European Indoor Championships in Vienna, Austria. He competed at the 1976 Olympic Games, but did not reach...

 and equal to Marco Delonge

Marco Delonge

Marco Delonge is a retired East German long jumper.He won the silver medal at the 1985 European Junior Championships. He represented the sports club SC Dynamo Berlin, and became East German champion in 1987 and 1989....

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