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 Representing 2007World Youth ChampionshipsOstrava, Czech Republic6th3.95 m2011European U23 ChampionshipsOstrava, Czech Republic12th (q)4.10 m12013European Indoor ChampionshipsGothenburg, Sweden8th4.22 mUniversiadeKazan, Russia5th4.30 m2014European ChampionshipsZürich, Switzerland17th (q)4.25 m2015European Indoor ChampionshipsPrague, Czech Republic6th (q)4.60 m12019European Indoor ChampionshipsGlasgow, United Kingdom14th (q)4.40 mWorld ChampionshipsDoha, Qatar –NM 1No mark in the final
Personal life
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.Diese deutschen Olympia-Stars ziehen sich für den "Playboy" aus
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