Charles Hoff
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Charles Teilman Hoff (born May 9, 1902 in Fredrikstad – died 1985) was a Norwegian athlete who competed in pole vault, long jump and triple jump.
Hoff set a new world record in the pole vault on 22nd July 1922 in Copenhagen with 4.12m. He increased this record many times, and in 1925 he jumped 4.25 at an athletics event in Turku. In 1923 Hoff was the Norwegian record holder over 400 metres with a time of 49/2, 800 metres, with a time of 1:55.9, and in long jump with a distance of 7.32. During a tournament in the USA in 1923, after he had an amateur record, he became professional. On 27 September 1931, he jumped 4.32 in Hønefoss, but the record was not ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
After he returned to Norway, he worked as a journalist for the newspaper Idrætsliv and as the editor of Sportsmanden until 1935. He became group leader for the Nazi athletics department in autumn 1940. In the legal purge in Norway after World War II in 1947 he was sentenced to nine years labour.
