Carlo Thränhardt

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Carlo Thränhardt (born 5 July 1957 in Bad Lauchstädt) is a former German high jumper.

He won the silver medal at the 1981 European Indoor Championships in Grenoble.

He achieved his personal best performance in outdoor competitions with 2.37 m on 2 September 1984 in Rieti. This result is also the German outdoor record.^[1]

On 26 February 1988 he set an indoor world record of 2.42 m in the in the Schöneberger sports hall, which was also as a special case recognised as the outdoor world record. In 1991 it was removed from the outdoor Wo rld Record lists, but it remained in the indoor world record lists (having been beaten by Javier Sotomayor in 1989 with a jump of 2.43 m).

Carlo Thränhardt was firstly a member of ASV Köln, later moving to LG Bayer Leverkusen. He had a match weight of 86 kg and was 1.99 m tall.

In 2004 he participated in the RTL version of I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!.

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• This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.