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Marian Woronin

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Marian Woronin

Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Poland
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1980 Moscow 4x100 metre relay
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 1978 Prague 4x100 metre
Bronze medal – third place 1982 Athens 100 metres
European Athletics Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 1979 Vienna 60 metres
Gold medal – first place 1980 Sindelfingen 60 metres
Gold medal – first place 1981 Grenoble 60 metres
Gold medal – first place 1982 Milan 60 metres
European Cup
Silver medal – second place 1979 Turin 100 metres
Bronze medal – third place 1979 Turin 200 metres
Gold medal – first place 1979 Turin 4x100 metres
Gold medal – first place 1981 Zurich 4x100 metres
Gold medal – first place 1985 Moscow 100 metres
World Cup
Bronze medal – third place 1979 Montreal 100 metres
Gold medal – first place 1981 Rome 4x100 metres

Marian Jerzy Woronin (born August 13, 1956 in Grodzisk Mazowiecki) is a retired Polish athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.

Woronin won nine Polish outdoor titles, and nine indoor titles.

In 1978 he won a European championship Gold medal in the 4x100 relay.

He is a four-time European Indoor Champion in the 60 metres. In 1985 he won the European Cup 100, and in 1982 a bronze in the 100 metres at the European Championships. As well as 3rd place in the world cup in 1979.

He competed for Poland in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Soviet Union in the 100 and 200 he reached both finals finishing 7th in both sprints. However in the 4 x 100 metre relay where he won the silver medal with his team mates Krzysztof Zwoliński, Zenon Licznerski and Leszek Dunecki.

His fastest time of 10.00 in the 100 m was rounded up from 9.992 seconds, thus giving him the distinction of being the first recorded individual not of West African decent to run under 10 seconds for the 100 metres (albeit unofficially) [1]. However, he is one of three individuals not of West African decent to run 100 metres in 10.00s or less, the others being Koji Ito a Japanese sprinter who ran a 10.00s 100m in 1998, and Patrick Johnson, a half-Irish and half-Native Australian sprinter who ran a 9.93s 100m in 2003.

Woronin's P.B. in the 200 m was 20.49.

In 1981 he ran with the Polish/Europe sprint relay team that won in the World Cup in Rome.

Indoor Success List

Marian Woronin won 50 or/and 60m final in the European Athletics Indoor Championships in:

  • 1979 in 6.57 s
  • 1980 in 6.62 s
  • 1981 over 50 m in 5.65 s
  • 1982 in 6.61 s
  • 1987 (in Lievin) in 6.51 s.
  • He was 3rd in 1977.[2]

References

  1. ^ Błąd w odczycie wyniku Justina Gatlina
  2. ^ http://www.european-athletics.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3464&Itemid=118



Records
Preceded by European Record Holder Men's 100 m
9 June 1984 - 23 September 1988 		Succeeded by


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