Anna Jesień

Anna Jesień
Anna Jesień (right) at the 2007 World Championships
nation	Poland
birthday	10th December 1978 (age 41)
place of birth	Sokołów Podlaski , Poland
size	168 cm
Weight	58 kg
Career
discipline	400 meter hurdles
Best performance	53.86 s
society	AZS-AWF Warszawa LŁKS Prefbet Śniadowo Łomża
National squad	since 1999
status	resigned
End of career	2012
Medal table
World championships 0 × 1 × 0 × European championships 1 × 0 × 2 ×
World championships bronze Osaka 2007 400 m H  European championships bronze Munich 2002 400 m H bronze Munich 2002 4 × 400 m bronze Gothenburg 2006 4 × 400 m
last change: April 12, 2017

Anna Marta Jesień (born Olichwierczuk ; born December 10, 1978 in Sokołów Podlaski ) is a former Polish athlete who was successful in the 400-meter hurdles between 1999 and 2012 and later in the 4-by-400-meter relay . Her greatest success is the bronze medal on the hurdles course at the 2007 World Championships .

Athletic career

Jesień is a 400 meter hurdle runner who was Polish champion five times between 1999 and 2005 . Since July 1, 2005, it has held the Polish national record with 53.96 s. At the European Athletics Championships in Munich in 2002 , she won the bronze medal.

She also starts in the 4 x 400 meter relay of the Polish national athletics team and also won a bronze medal here at the European Championships in 2002. After her national record in July 2005, she advanced to the top of the world and reached the final of the 2005 World Athletics Championships in Helsinki with the third-fastest time in the semi-finals. In the final, she finally came fourth. A result that she was able to repeat a day later with the 4 x 400 meter relay. The Polish relay team was only 0.05 seconds short of the bronze medal. At the European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg in 2006 , she ran over the 400 meter hurdles to sixth place and won the bronze medal as the final runner in the Polish 4-times-400-times relay.

Anna Jesień took part in the Olympic Games twice ( 2000 in Sydney and 2004 in Athens ).

Anna Jesień had a competition weight of 56 kg with a height of 1.68 m.

Personal best

• 400 m 51.74 s, May 25, 2007 in Warsaw
• 400 m H: 53.86 s, August 28, 2007 in Osaka

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Польша на Олимпиаде в Пекине 2008: результаты всех спортсменов. Olympteka.ru. Retrieved March 26, 2019 (Russian). 

Web links

• Anna Jesień in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Anna Olichwierczuk-Jesień in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )