Gerd Nagel (athlete)

Gerd Nagel (born October 22, 1957 in Sulingen , Diepholz district ) is a former German athlete and Olympic participant who - starting for Germany - won the bronze medal in the high jump at the 1982 European Championships (2.24 m).

Nagel did his Abitur at the Rhenanus School Bad Sooden-Allendorf while he was living in the sports boarding school Bad Sooden-Allendorf .

At the Olympic Games 1984 he was injured in the qualifying battle (2.18 m), at the World Athletics Championships in 1987 he finished 14th (2.20 m).

On June 9, 1979, at the international high jump meeting in Eberstadt , Nagel, together with Carlo Thränhardt and Dietmar Mögenburg, improved the German record of the Federal Republic from 2.26 m to 2.30 m. For the first time in the world, three competitors jumped 2.3m in a competition. In 1979 he became German champion (2.30 m) in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Nagel started for the LG Frankfurt . In his playing days he was 1.88 m tall and weighed 74 kg.

Gerd Nagel runs a fitness studio in his hometown Sulingen.

For his services to sport in Lower Saxony , he was included in the Lower Saxony Sports Honor Gallery of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History.

Gerd Nagel is the grandson of the politician Rudolf Eickhoff .

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics. 1898-2005. Volume 2: Lehnertz - Zylka. 3rd edition, 12. – 21. Hundred. German Athletics Promotion and Project Society, Darmstadt 2005.
• TuS Sulingen: 25 more years - supplementary chronicle on the occasion of the 125th anniversary Contribution by Wilhelm Köster under the title: 'Gerd Nagel - hoch, hoch, hoch!', 2005, pages 228-233.
• City of Sulingen: Sulingen history and people , 2012, page 214/5.