Katharina Bauer

Katharina Bauer (born 12 June 1990 in Wiesbaden) is a German athlete specialising in the pole vault. She represented her country at the 2019 World Championships in Doha without qualifying for the final. In addition, she twice reached the final at the European Indoor Championships.

Her personal bests in the event are 4.65 metres outdoors (Beckum (GER) and 4.60 metres indoors (Leverkusen 2015).

International competitions 1No mark in the final

Personal life

Having problems with abnormally fast heartbeat since her youth, she competes with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) in her chest.

Before the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, which Bauer ultimately missed due to a hand injury, she posed together with swimmer Isabelle Härle, cyclist Nadja Pries, table tennis player Petrissa Solja and rower Julia Lier for the German edition of Playboy.