Jens Knipphals

Jens Karl Willi Knipphals ( born May 19, 1958 in Faller life ) is a former German long jumper.

In the Indoor Athletics Championships 1978 in Milan he was eight and won bronze in 1983 in Budapest. In this competition experiment from the judges was measured deliberately corrupted in the last and the footprints in the sand zugeharkt immediately. A final explanation was lack of objection of the DLV, despite existing Video-/Fernsehaufzeichnungen not possible.

Overall, he stepped up to 13 times the national team and was part of the Olympic squad in 1980, which could not be taken because of the Olympic boycott.

1982 does not nominated the DLV him for the European Championships in Athens. This was in connection with the Olympic boycott of 1980, the reason for the withdrawal from competitive sport in 1983 with only 25 years.

1979 and 1980 he became German champion, four times finished in third place. In the hall he won in 1978, 1982 and 1983 and the national title in 1981 despite a performance better than the previously existing German record, only runners-up.

In 1979, he became a military world champion in Algiers and 1978 German junior champion.

Jens Knipphals launched for VfL Wolfsburg. His father Hans -Jürgen Knipphals was goalkeeper in handball, his son Sven Knipphals is nominated as Athlete for the 2012 Olympics.

Personal best

• Long jump: 8,14 m, May 28, 1980 Berlin Hall: 8,13 m, February 7, 1981 Sindelfingen 100m: 10.2 sec, 1978 in Cali, Colombia