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Wolfgang Nordwig (born 27 August 1943) is a former East German pole vaulter who won the gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics with a clearance of . He was born in Chemnitz, Saxony. ==Athletic career== Nordwig won a bronze in the pole vault at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. He was a member of the East German team, the first time East and West Germany had sent separate teams to the Olympics. In the contest, Nordwig, the American Bob Seagren and the West-German Claus Schiprowski all cleared at 5.40 m, Seagren and Schiprowski on their second attempts and Nordwig on his third. All missed at 5.45 m. Seagren was the gold medal winner because he had had fewer misses at lower heights than Schiprowski.〔http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1968/ATH/mens-pole-vault.html "Athletics at the 1968 Ciudad de México Summer Games: Men's Pole Vault", sports-reference.com.〕 Nordwig was Olympic champion at the pole vault at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Nordwig's keenest rivals for the title the Americans Bob Seagren, Steve Smith and Jan Johnson and the Swede Kjell Isaksson were amongst those vaulters banned by the world governing body the IAAF from competing with the lighter poles they had been using all season. An initial ban in July had been reversed on 27 August, but on the eve of the competition, 30 August, the IAAF reimposed their ban claiming the poles were new equipment and therefore invalid. Seagren, the defending champion, finished second; Johnson third; and Smith and Isaksson did not even qualify for the final.〔http://www.sanclementetimes.com/blog/2012/08/02/not-your-typical-olympic-story/ "Not Your Typical Olympic Story", Steve Breazeale, San Clemente Times, 2 August 2012.〕〔http://trackandfield.about.com/od/polevault/a/controvpolevaul.htm "Americans Pole-Axed: Olympic Pole Vault Controversy", Mike Rosenbaum, trackandfield.about.com. Retrieved 13 March 2013.〕 Nordwig had never preferred the new pole so was unaffected.〔http://www.olympic.org/news/wolfgang-nordwig-athletics/178219 "Wolfgang Nordwig - Athletics", olympic.org. Retrieved 28 March 2013.〕 In the competition itself, Johnson was eliminated at 5.40 m with Nordwig clearing on his second attempt and Seagren on his third. Nordwig then cleared 5.45 m with Seagren unable to match him. Nordwig then underlined his triumph by clearing 5.50 m for a new Olympic record and his personal best.〔 He was also European champion three times: in 1966, 1969 and 1971. In addition, he was twice European indoor champion in 1971 and 1972. Nordwig twice broke the pole vault world record.〔Progression of IAAF World Records 2011 Edition, Editor Imre Matrahazi, IAAF Athletics, p 163.〕 The first occasion was on 17 June 1970 in Berlin, Germany when he achieved a height of . The second was on 3 September 1970 in Turin, Italy when he broke his own world record with a height of . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wolfgang Nordwig」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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