BERLIN: Germany’s 2013 pole vault world champion Raphael Holzdeppe is out of this month’s world indoor championships with an ankle injury, it was announced on Tuesday. The 26-year-old suffered the injury in the German indoor championships in Leipzig on Sunday and a scan on Monday has ruled him out for the next few weeks, including the world indoors in Portland, USA, from March 17-20. He would have been going head-to-head with France’s world record holder Renaud Lavillenie, who cleared 6.16m in 2014, and reigning world outdoors champion Shawnacy Barber of Canada. “It’s not possible for Raphael Holzdeppe to take part in the world championships,” said Germany’s head coach Idriss Gonschinska. “He will be out for several weeks, which we greatly regret.” Holzdeppe, who took bronze at the 2012 London Olympic Games, won the world championships in Moscow in 2013 with a leap of 5.89m, then took silver in Beijing last year.