Christian Thomas (long jumper) explained

Christian Thomas (born 31 March 1965) is a retired West German long jumper.

Thomas represented the sports club TV Heppenheim. His personal best jump was 8.21 metres, achieved in July 1994 in Germering.^[1] This ranks him tenth among German long jumpers, behind Lutz Dombrowski, Frank Paschek, Josef Schwarz, Henry Lauterbach, Marco Delonge, Konstantin Krause, Dietmar Haaf, Ron Beer and Uwe Lange, and equal to Georg Ackermann and Nils Winter.^[2]

Achievements

Representing
1987		Indianapolis, United States	15th	7.48 m
		Liévin, France	3rd	8.12 m
1989		The Hague, Netherlands	9th	7.75 m ^[3]
1990		Glasgow, Scotland	4th	7.88 m
		Split, Yugoslavia	12th	7.74 m (wind: 0.0 m/s)
Representing
1994	European Championships	Helsinki, Finland	20th (q)	7.66 m (wind: +0.5 m/s)

References

1. http://hem.bredband.net/athletics/atb-m27.htm World men's all-time best long jump (last updated 2001)
2. Web site: Archived copy . 2009-01-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081031090009/http://www.leichtathletik.de/dokumente/ergebnisse/images/ewige_dlv_bestenliste.pdf . 2008-10-31 .
3. http://www.maik-richter.de/results/indoor/europe/1989/m89_21.html 1989 European Indoor Championships results, men's long jump final