Bronisław Malinowski (athlete)

Bronisław Malinowski medal table
Bronisław Malinowski 1976 in Fürth
3000 meters obstacle , 5000 meters and 12 km cross-country run
Poland
Olympic games
silver	Montreal, 1976	3000 meters obstacle
gold	Moscow, 1980	3000 meters obstacle
Cross World Championships
silver	Limerick, 1979	12 km cross-country run
European championships
gold	Rome, 1974	3000 meters obstacle
gold	Prague, 1978	3000 meters obstacle
Junior European Championships
gold	Paris, 1970	2000 meter obstacle

Bronisław Malinowski (born June 4, 1951 in Nowe ; † September 27, 1981 , Grudziądz ) was a Polish athlete and Olympic champion over 3000 meters obstacle .

He was one of the top 3,000-meter obstacle course runners in the 1970s and competed in the Olympics three times.

The times of Bronisław Malinowski in the finals over 3000 meters obstacle at the international championships from 1974 were always close to the world record or championship record.

Both the Malinowski Olympic silver medal in 1976 and the Olympic gold medal in 1980 were the first silver and first gold medals for Poland at the Olympic Games in athletics.

Junior European Champion

Bronislaw Malinowski was Junior European Champion over 2000 meters in Paris in 1979 in 5: 44.00 min.

Olympic games

At his first Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 , Bronisław Malinowski was fourth over 3000 meters in a time of 8: 27.92 minutes.

Four years later he won the silver medal at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal in 8: 09.11 minutes behind Anders Gärderud (SWE), who won the final in a world record time of 8: 08.02 minutes.

After Gärderud had finished his career, another great runner stepped onto the athletics stage as his strongest competitor: Henry Rono from Kenya, who improved the world record to 8: 05.4 min in 1978 and within 81 days also world records over 3000, over 5000 and Ran 10,000 meters.

Malinowski was able to beat Rono and was the favorite at the 1980 Olympic Games in oskau . His big competitor here was Filbert Bayi from Tanzania , who had improved the world record over 1 mile to 3: 51.0 min in a major race in Kingston in 1975 .

Filbert Bayi started the final of the 3000 meter obstacle in Moscow very quickly with an intermediate time of 2:39 minutes over 1000 meters, which would have been less than 8 minutes, and had a lead of 50 meters over a group of pursuers up to 600 meters from the finish , which was led by Malinowski.

Bronisław Malinowski reduced the gap to the tired Filbert Bayi at the beginning of the last lap to 30 meters, caught up with him on the back straight, overtook him shortly before the moat and did not give up the lead. Bayi was second 2.8 s behind Malinowski (8: 09.7 min).

European championships

Bronisław Malinowski became European champion in Rome in 1974 and ran a championship record of 8: 15.04 min, just ahead of Anders Gärderud with 8: 15.41 min. At the European Championships in Prague in 1978 he defended his title in 8: 15.08 min.

Success in cross-country running

At the World Cross Country Championships 1979 in Limerick Bronisław Malinowski was second over 12 km.

Monument in Graudenz

Early retirement

After the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Moscow, Malinowski's career would certainly have had a few highlights ahead of it, but Bronisław Malinowski tragically died on September 27, 1981 in a car accident on a bridge in Poland. He was 30 years old. The Vistula bridge Grudziądz was then named after him.

literature

In the standard work Athletics 1: Running and Jumping - Training, Technique, Tactics by Ulrich Jonath / Rolf Krempel / Eduard Haag, Rowohlt 1979, in which the disciplines are presented with photo series, two photo series by Bronisław Malinowski were selected for the obstacle course.

Web links

• 3000 m obstacle final 1980 in Moscow , Olympic Games, 1:33 min
• Bronisław Malinowski in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry in the DNB