Near a cemetery
Freezing cold murder! High jump world champion Freitag dead
Sad end to a South African who became an athletics hero at a young age: former world high jump champion Jacques Freitag is dead, apparently the victim of a murder in his home country!
According to media reports from the southern tip of the African continent, the 42-year-old Freitag had been missing for two weeks before he was found dead near the Zandfontein cemetery in the west of the capital Pretoria at the beginning of the week.
Gunshot wounds on the blood-soaked body
Among other things, the gunshot wounds on the blood-soaked body apparently lead the police to assume a murder case ...
The last sign of Freitag's life is said to have been on the night of June 17-18, when he left his mother's house and drove off with an unknown man. The man is said to have promised the former athletics hero a job.
World champion at adult level in Paris in 2003
Freitag had won gold as a high jumper at both the 1999 U18 World Championships in Bydgoszcz (2.16 meters) and the 2000 U20 World Championships in Santiago de Chile (2.24 meters). He also won gold at adult level in 2003 in Paris (2.35).
In 2005, he also secured the South African record that still stands today with a height of 2.38 meters.
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