Katharina Bauer

Katharina Bauer

Bauer in 2015
Personal information
Born	(1990-06-12) 12 June 1990 (age 36) Wiesbaden, West Germany
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	64 kg (141 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	Pole vault
Club	TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Coached by	Leszek Klima

Katharina Bauer (born 12 June 1990 in Wiesbaden) is a German athlete specialising in the pole vault. She represented her country at the 2019 World Championships in Doha without qualifying for the final. In addition, she twice reached the final at the European Indoor Championships.

Her personal bests in the event are 4.65 metres outdoors (Beckum (GER) and 4.60 metres indoors (Leverkusen 2015).

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing  Germany
2007	World Youth Championships	Ostrava, Czech Republic	6th	3.95 m
2011	European U23 Championships	Ostrava, Czech Republic	12th (q)	4.10 m1
2013	European Indoor Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	8th	4.22 m
	Universiade	Kazan, Russia	5th	4.30 m
2014	European Championships	Zürich, Switzerland	17th (q)	4.25 m
2015	European Indoor Championships	Prague, Czech Republic	6th (q)	4.60 m1
2019	European Indoor Championships	Glasgow, United Kingdom	14th (q)	4.40 m
	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	–	NM

¹No mark in the final

Personal life

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Having problems with abnormally fast heartbeat since her youth, she competes with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) in her chest.

Before the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, which Bauer ultimately missed due to a hand injury, she posed together with swimmer Isabelle Härle, cyclist Nadja Pries, table tennis player Petrissa Solja and rower Julia Lier for the German edition of Playboy.

References

External links

• Katharina Bauer at Diamond League
• Katharina Bauer at European Athletics
• Katharina Bauer at Team Deutschland (in German)

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