Wolfgang Killing

Wolfgang Killing was one of the best West German high jumpers in the 1970s, placing third at the European Indoors in 1978. Nevertheless he was eliminated in the qualification round of the 1976 Montréal Olympic Games. He later became a sport and social scientist, and in 1987 became German national coach for high jumping, publishing two scientific training books: Gekonnt nach oben in 1995 and Leistungsreserve Springen: Handbuch des Sprungkrafttrainings für alle Sportarten in 2008. Killing is also the organizer of the indoor high jump meeting at Wuppertal, which now also includes pole vaulters, and which attracts some of the world’s best in the events.

Personal Best: HJ – 2.23 (1977), 2.28i (1978).