(1995-04-16) 16 April 1995 (age 29) Almaty, Kazakhstan
Height
1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Sport
Sport
Athletics
Event
Pole vault
Club
ASV Landau
Coached by
Jochen Wetter Andrei Tivontchik
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing Germany
European Championships
2024 Rome
Pole vault
Oleg Zernikel (born 16 April 1995 in Almaty, Kazakhstan) is a German athlete specialising in the pole vault.[1] He represented his country at the 2021 European Indoor Championships finishing fourth. Earlier he won a bronze medal at the 2014 World Junior Championships.
His personal bests in the event are 5.80 metres outdoors (Braunschweig 2021) and 5.81 metres indoors (Berlin 2022).
At the age of eleven, Zernikel came with his family from Kazakhstan to Landau in the Palatinate.[2] His father was a long and high jumper.[3]
^Oleg Zernikel at World Athletics
^"Oleg Zernikel und der harte Weg vom Talent zum gereiften Athleten". www.leichtathletik.de (in German). 12 February 2021. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
^Riegger, Nadja (12 February 2021). "Hohe Ziele – nicht nur im Studium". www.leichtathletik.de (in German). Retrieved 6 May 2020.
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