Geology of Germany clearly set apart from the Alpine foreland, the Northern Limestone Alps form high mountains ("German: ") of well over 2,000 metres above sea level. Of the high mountains of Germany, the highest is Zugspitze, with a height of 2,962 metres, more than a thousand metres higher than Feldberg in the Black Forest, Germany's highest mountain outside the Alps. The Northern Limestone Alps represent a depositional environment that was probably located several hundred kilometres to the south, relative to the current position of the rocks. This is reflected in facies as well as in the fossil record: While in the Eastern
Germany at the World Championships in Athletics Franka Dietzsch each have won three gold medals in throwing events, sprinter Grit Breuer has the highest total at six medals, while another sprinter Katrin Krabbe has two golds and two bronze medals (all won in 1991). As of the 2017 World Championships in Athletics, no German athlete has been disqualified from the competition for doping. Germany at the World Championships in Athletics Germany has competed at every edition of the IAAF World Championships in Athletics since 1991. Prior to 1991, separate West Germany and East Germany teams competed at the global athletics competition. Germany has won the fourth highest