Raphael Holzdeppe

Raphael Marcel Holzdeppe (born 28 September 1989) is a German pole vaulter, who was world champion at his event.

He received the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, behind countryman Björn Otto and Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie.

[2] A previous personal best was 5.80 metres, achieved in June 2008, setting the world junior record.

[3] He holds the world junior indoor record with 5.68 metres, achieved in March 2008 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt.

As a result of this feat, he won the 2008 European Athletics Rising Star of the Year Award.

Raphael Holzdeppe at the 2020 Bauhaus Galan meeting in Stockholm