Piotr Haczek
![]() Piotr Haczek in 2000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nationality | Polish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Żywiec, Poland | 26 January 1977||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | sprinting, 400 metres | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Piotr Haczek (born 26 January 1977 in Żywiec, Śląskie) is a Polish former athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres. An outdoor and indoor world champion in the 4 x 400 metres relay, his success came mainly in relay, his best individual performance being a gold medal at the 1999 European Under 23 Championships. After retiring from competition he became an athletics coach: among the roles he has held are sports director and head coach of the Polish Athletic Association and sprints coach for Scottish Athletics.[3][4]
Personal bests[]
- 100 metres - 10.58 (1998)
- 200 metres - 20.97 (2000)
- 400 metres - 45.43 (2000)
Achievements[]
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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1995 | European Junior Championships | Nyíregyháza, Hungary | 6th | 400 m | 47.42 |
3rd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:09.65 | |||
1996 | World Junior Championships | Sydney, Australia | 5th | 400 m | 46.29 |
6th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:08.04 | |||
Olympic Games | Atlanta, United States | 6th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:00.96 | |
1997 | European U23 Championships | Turku, Finland | 2nd | 400 m | 45.72 |
1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:03.07 | |||
World Championships | Athens, Greece | 3rd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:00.26[2] | |
1998 | Goodwill Games | Uniondale, United States | 2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 2:58.00 (NR) |
European Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 5th | 400 m | 45.46 | |
2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 2:58.88 | |||
1999 | World Indoor Championships | Maebashi, Japan | 2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:03.01 (iAR) |
European U23 Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | 1st | 400 m | 45.78 | |
2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:03.22 | |||
World Championships | Seville, Spain | 1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 2:58.91[2] | |
2000 | Olympic Games | Sydney, Australia | 12th (sf) | 400 m | 45.66 |
6th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:03.22 | |||
2001 | World Indoor Championships | Lisbon, Portugal | 1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:04.47 |
World Championships | Edmonton, Canada | 3rd | 4 × 400 m relay | 2:59.71[2] |
See also[]
- Polish records in athletics
Notes[]
- ^ Sports-Reference profile
- ^ a b c d The USA 4 x 400 team originally finished first in 4x400 m relay but was disqualified in 2008 due to Antonio Pettigrew's confession of using human growth hormone and EPO between 1997 and 2003.
- ^ "High Performance Conference enhances high-level coaching skills". European Athletic Association. 31 March 2019. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
- ^ Gillon, Doug (23 May 2012). "Where lessons must be learned, and examples must be made". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
External links[]
Categories:
- Polish male sprinters
- 1977 births
- Living people
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Poland
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- People from Żywiec
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Sportspeople from Silesian Voivodeship
- Goodwill Games medalists in athletics
- Skra Warszawa athletes
- World Athletics Indoor Championships winners
- World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists
- World Athletics Championships winners
- Competitors at the 1998 Goodwill Games
- Polish athletics coaches
- Polish athletics biography stubs