Adam Kszczot

Adam Kszczot
Adam Kszczot at the 2017 European Indoor Championships
nation	Poland
birthday	2nd September 1989 (age 30)
place of birth	Opoczno ,  Poland
Career
discipline	800 meter run
Best performance	1: 43.30 min
society	RKS Łódź
Trainer	Stanislaw Jaszczak
National squad	since 2007
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 2 × 0 × European championships 3 × 0 × 1 × Indoor world championships 1 × 1 × 1 × European Indoor Championships 3 × 0 × 0 × U23 European Championships 2 × 0 × 0 × Junior European Championship 0 × 0 × 1 ×
World championships silver London 2017 800 m silver Beijing 2015 800 m  European championships gold Zurich 2014 800 m gold Amsterdam 2016 800 m gold Berlin 2018 800 m bronze Barcelona 2010 800 m  Indoor world championships gold Birmingham 2018 800 m silver Sopot 2014 800 m bronze Doha 2010 800 m  European Indoor Championships gold Belgrade 2017 800 m gold Gothenburg 2013 800 m gold Paris 2011 800 m  U23 European Championships gold Ostrava 2011 800 m gold Kaunaus 2009 800 m  Junior European Championships bronze Hengelo 2007 800 m World Relays silver Nassau 2014 4 × 800 m
last change: August 12, 2018

Adam Kszczot (born September 2, 1989 in Opoczno ) is a Polish middle-distance runner who specializes in the 800-meter course . Over this distance he became European champion in 2014 , 2016 and 2018 and vice world champion in both 2015 and 2017 .

In 2008 he was fourth at the Junior World Championships in Bydgoszcz , and the following year he reached the semi-finals at the World Championships in Berlin . In 2010 he won the bronze medal at both the World Indoor Championships in Doha and the European Championships in Barcelona . In 2011 he won the European Indoor Championships in Paris and was sixth at the World Championships in Daegu . At the World Indoor Championships in 2012 in Istanbul, he finished fourth.

In March 2013 he won the gold medal in the 800-meter run at the 2013 European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden . He also won the title at the 2014 European Championships in Zurich . In 2015 he won the silver medal at the World Championships in Beijing behind the Kenyan Olympic champion from 2012 and world record holder David Lekuta Rudisha . He defended his title at the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam . At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , however, he failed to make it into the final as third in his semi-final run.

In 2017, Kszczot won the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade and thus secured his third European indoor title in the 800-meter run after 2011 and 2013. At the World Championships in London , like two years earlier, he won the silver medal in Beijing.

He won the gold medal in the 800-meter run at the 2018 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham .

Adam Kszczot is trained by Stanisław Jaszczak and starts for the club RKS Łódź.

Personal bests

• 400 m : 47.00 s, May 31, 2009, Łódź
• 800 m: 1: 43.30 min, September 10, 2011, Rieti
  • Hall: 1: 44.57 min, February 14, 2012, Liévin
• 1000 m : 2: 15.72 min, September 5, 2014, Brussels
• 1500 m : 3: 38.31 min, July 23, 2017, Białystok

Web links

Commons : Adam Kszczot  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Adam Kszczot in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on bieganie.pl
• Adam Kszczot in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )