Marian Woronin
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| Medal record | ||
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| Men's athletics | ||
Representing  Poland
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| Olympic Games | ||
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1980 Moscow | 4x100 metre relay |
| European Championships | ||
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1978 Prague | 4×100 m relay |
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1982 Athens | 100 metres |
| European Athletics Indoor Championships | ||
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1979 Vienna | 60 metres |
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1980 Sindelfingen | 60 metres |
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1981 Grenoble | 60 metres |
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1982 Milan | 60 metres |
| European Cup | ||
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1979 Turin | 100 metres |
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1979 Turin | 200 metres |
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1979 Turin | 4x100 metres |
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1981 Zurich | 4×100 m relay |
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1985 Moscow | 100 metres |
| World Cup | ||
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1979 Montreal | 100 metres |
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1981 Rome | 4×100 m relays |
Marian Jerzy Woronin (born August 13, 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 broke the 10-second barrier in the event.[1] He is one of only six 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) and Christophe Lemaitre (9.92 in 2011), who is the first person of European descent to officially break the barrier.
Woronin's personal best in the 200 m was 20.49.
Competition record
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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| Representing Poland
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| 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 |
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]
