Michał Pietrzak
Personal information | |
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Full name | Michał Waldemar Pietrzak |
Born | Łęczyca, Poland | 3 April 1989
Education | Jerzy Kukuczka Academy of Physical Education[1] |
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[2] |
Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) |
Sport | |
Club | AZS-AWF Katowice[3] |
Coached by | Janusz Iskra |
Medal record |
Michał Pietrzak (Polish pronunciation: [ˈmixaw ˈpjɛtʂak]; born 3 April 1989) is a retired Polish athlete who specialised in the 400 metres and 400 metres hurdles.[4] He won two medals in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the European Athletics Championships.
Personal life[]
Pietrzak was born on 3 April 1989 in Łęczyca.[5] His parents, Waldemar and Jolanta, are both physical education teachers. He attended the Jerzy Kukuczka Academy of Physical Education in Katowice.[6] In 2016, he completed his MA thesis in physical education.
Career[]
Pietrzak competed in the 4 × 400 m relay event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. At the 2013 Indoor European Championships in Gothenburg, his team lost the relay bronze medal due to disqualification; it was judged that one of his teammates had pushed British athlete Richard Buck.[7][8]
Competing in the 4 × 400 m relay, Pietrzak placed fourth at the 2014 World Indoor Championships in Sopot[3] and took the bronze medal at the 2014 European Championships in Zürich. They won silver at the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam. In 2016 Pietrzak ran the 400 m in 45.96.[9]
He and his teammates qualified to the 4 × 400 metres relay final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, finishing in 7th place.[10][5]
Competition record[]
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing Poland | |||||
2008 | World Junior Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 14th (sf) | 400 m hurdles | 52.22 |
5th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:08.65 | |||
2009 | European U23 Championships | Kaunas, Lithuania | 1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:03.74 |
2011 | European U23 Championships | Ostrava, Czech Republic | 15th (sf) | 400 m hurdles | 51.76 |
2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:03.62 | |||
2012 | European Championships | Zürich, Switzerland | 4th (h) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:05.69 |
Olympic Games | London, United Kingdom | 9th (h) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:02.86 | |
2013 | European Indoor Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | – | 4 × 400 m relay | DQ |
2014 | World Indoor Championships | Sopot, Poland | 4th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:04.39 |
European Championships | Zürich, Switzerland | 5th (h) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:03.52 | |
2015 | IAAF World Relays | Nassau, Bahamas | 9th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:03.23 |
Universiade | Gwangju, South Korea | 3rd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:07.77 | |
World Championships | Beijing, China | 11th (h) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:00.72 | |
2016 | European Championships | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:02.09 |
Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 7th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:00.50 | |
2017 | Universiade | Taipei, Taiwan | – | 4 × 400 m relay | DNF |
References[]
- ^ 2017 Universiade bio
- ^ Rio 2016 bio Archived 2016-11-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b "Micha³ PIETRZAK - Statystyki PZLA - DOMTEL-SPORT". domtel-sport.pl.
- ^ Michał Pietrzak at World Athletics
- ^ a b "Michał Pietrzak Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com". April 18, 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
- ^ http://awf.katowice.pl/aktualnosci/michal-pietrzak-awf-w-katowicach-najlepsza-sportowa-uczelnia-w-polsce
- ^ "Joy turns to sadness after indoor athletics relay disqualification".
- ^ "European Indoor Championships 2013: UK Athletics coach Peter Eriksson hails GB's eight-medal haul".
- ^ "Polski Związek Lekkiej Atletyki". pzla.pl.
- ^ http://www.olimpijski.pl/Media/files/Sklad_RIO_2016_v_zatwierdzona.pdf
- People from Łęczyca
- Polish male sprinters
- 1989 births
- Living people
- Olympic athletes of Poland
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Łódź Voivodeship
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Poland
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Universiade bronze medalists for Poland
- Competitors at the 2017 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade