Marian Woronin

Marian Woronin

Marian Woronin in 2007.
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing Poland
Olympic Games
	1980 Moscow	4x100 m relay
European Championships
	1978 Prague	4×100 m relay
	1982 Athens	100 m
European Athletics Indoor Championships
	1979 Vienna	60 m
	1980 Sindelfingen	60 m
	1981 Grenoble	60 m
	1982 Milan	60 m
European Cup
	1979 Turin	4x100 m
	1981 Zurich	4×100 m relay
	1985 Moscow	100 m
	1979 Turin	100 m
	1979 Turin	200 m
World Cup
	1981 Rome	4×100 m relays
	1979 Montreal	100 m

Marian Jerzy Woronin (born 13 August 1956 in Grodzisk Mazowiecki) is a retired Polish athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. He is a four-time European Indoor Champion in the 60 metres. He won nine Polish outdoor titles, and nine indoor titles.

His first major medal came at the 1978 European Athletics Championships, where he anchored the Polish 4×100 metres relay team of Zenon Nowosz, Zenon Licznerski and Leszek Dunecki to the gold medal in the event. He won the bronze in the 100 m at the 1979 IAAF World Cup, running for Europe.

He competed for Poland in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Soviet Union in the 100 and 200 he reached both finals finishing seventh in both sprints. In the 4×100 metres relay he won the silver medal with his team mates Krzysztof Zwoliński, Licznerski and Dunecki.

In 1981 he ran with the Polish/Europe sprint relay team that won the gold at the 1981 IAAF World Cup in Rome. He won a bronze in the 100 metres at the 1982 European Athletics Championships.

His fastest time for the 100 m was 10.00 seconds, recorded in 1984 in Warsaw with wind on the maximum allowable limit of 2.0 m/s. This was the European record for the event until Linford Christie ran 9.97 sec at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Although Woronin's official timing read as 10.00 seconds, this was rounded up from 9.992 seconds – some claim this represents the first time that a Caucasian (and a European) broke the 10-second barrier in this event. He is one of only eight individuals not of West African descent to run 100 metres in 10.00 s or less – the others being Koji Ito of Japan (10.00 in 1998), Australian Patrick Johnson (9.93 in 2003), Namibian Frankie Fredericks (9.95 in 1991), Zimbabwean Ngonidzashe Makusha (9.97 in 2011) Frenchman Christophe Lemaitre (9.92 in 2011), who is the first person of European descent to officially break the barrier, Zhang Peimeng (10.00 in 2013) and Su Bingtian (9.99 in 2015), both of China.

Woronin's personal best in the 200 m was 20.49.

Competition record

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Poland
1976	Olympic Games	Montreal, Canada	16th (sf)	100 m	10.69
			29th (h)	200 m	21.90
			4th	4×100 m	38.83
1977	European Indoor Championships	San Sebastián, Spain	3rd	60 m	6.67
1978	European Championships	Prague, Czechoslovakia	1st	4×100 m	38.58
1979	European Indoor Championships	Vienna, Austria	1st	60 m	6.57
1980	European Indoor Championships	Sindelfingen, West Germany	1st	60 m	6.62
	Olympic Games	Moscow, Soviet Union	7th	100 m	10.46
			7th	200 m	20.81
			2nd	4×100 m	38.33
1981	European Indoor Championships	Grenoble, France	1st	50 m	5.65
1982	European Indoor Championships	Milan, Italy	1st	60 m	6.61
	European Championships	Athens, Greece	3rd	100 m	10.28
			5th	4×100 m	39.00
1983	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	31st (qf)	100 m	10.72
			6th	4×100 m	38.72
1987	European Indoor Championships	Liévin, France	1st	60 m	6.51

External links

• Marian Woronin at World Athletics
• Marian Woronin runs in 1985 on YouTube