- Martin Buß
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Medal record Competitor for Germany
Men’s athletics World Championships Gold 2001 Edmonton High jump Bronze 1999 Seville High jump Martin Buß (born 7 April 1976) is a German high jumper who won the gold medal at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is a five-time national champion for Germany in the men's high jump event.
Born in Berlin, Buß took up the sport at the age of 17 and competed in his first World Championships in 1997, finishing ninth. At the 1999 World Championships in Seville, Spain he won a surprising bronze medal behind Vyacheslav Voronin and Mark Boswell. His jump of 2.32 metres was 5 cm behind the winner.
However, Buß came back two years later and won the gold medal at Edmonton with a jump of 2.36 m, beating Yaroslav Rybakov and old rival Voronin. Among the field which Martin beat was the legendary Javier Sotomayor. It marked a fine comeback after he suffered an injury to his achilles the year before.
He later missed both the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics through injury, and retired in late 2006 because of the persistent injury problems.
Achievements
Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes Representing Germany
1997 European U23 Championships Turku, Finland 2nd High jump External links
- IAAF profile for Martin Buß
- Butcher, Michael (1 November 2006). "2001 World champion Buss, retires". IAAF. http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=2/newsId=36668.html. Retrieved 2006-11-03.
World Champions in Men's High Jump 1983: Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (URS) • 1987: Patrik Sjöberg (SWE) • 1991: Charles Austin (USA) • 1993: Javier Sotomayor (CUB) • 1995: Troy Kemp (BAH) • 1997: Javier Sotomayor (CUB) • 1999: Vyacheslav Voronin (RUS) • 2001: Martin Buß (GER) • 2003: Jacques Freitag (RSA) • 2005: Yuriy Krymarenko (UKR) • 2007: Donald Thomas (BAH) • 2009: Yaroslav Rybakov (RUS) • 2011: Jesse Williams (USA)
Categories:- 1976 births
- Living people
- German high jumpers
- People from Berlin
- German athletics biography stubs
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