Medal record
Richard Spiegelburg, 2007
Men's Athletics
Competitor for  Germany
Universiade
Gold	1999 Palma de Mallorca	Pole Vault

Richard Spiegelburg (born 12 August 1977 in Georgsmarienhütte) is a German pole vaulter. He is the older brother of Silke Spiegelburg.

He won the 1999 Summer Universiade and finished fourth at the 2000 European Indoor Athletics Championships. He then finished sixth at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton and eighth at the 2002 European Indoor Athletics Championships in Vienna.

After failing to progress from the qualifying round at the 2002 European Championships he fell out of the international spotlight for some years, but returned in 2005 with a fourth place at the Universiade. In 2006 he finished thirteenth at the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg.

His personal best jump is 5.85 metres, achieved in June 2001 in Stuttgart. This ranks him fifth among German pole vaulters, behind Tim Lobinger, Andrei Tivontchik, Michael Stolle and Danny Ecker. [1]

[edit] External links

• IAAF profile for Richard Spiegelburg

v • d • e Summer Universiade Champions in Men's Pole Vault  1959: Noriaki Yasuda (JPN) •  1961: Dimitar Khlebarov (BUL) •  1963: Gennadiy Bliznetsov (URS) •  1965: John Pennel (USA) •  1967: Heinfried Engel (FRG) •  1970: Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR) •  1973 – 1975: François Tracanelli (FRA) •  1977 – 1979: Władysław Kozakiewicz (POL) •  1981 – 1983: Konstantin Volkov (URS) •  1985: Radion Gataullin (URS) •  1987: Viktor Spasov (URS) •  1989: Bernhard Zintl (FRG) •  1991 – 1995: István Bagyula (HUN) •  1997: Khalid Lachheb (FRA) •  1999: Richard Spiegelburg (GER) •  2001: Aleksandr Averbukh (ISR) •  2003: Oleksandr Korchmid (UKR) •  2005: Björn Otto (GER) •  2007: Alexander Straub (GER) •  2009: Alexander Gripich (RUS)

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