Edmund Piątkowski
Edmund Piątkowski (born January 31, 1936 in Konstantynów Łódzki ; † March 28, 2016 ) was a Polish athlete . In 1958 he became European champion in the discus throw and set a world record in 1959.
The Polish throwers were very successful at the 1958 European Championships in Stockholm. Tadeusz Rut won the hammer throw, Janusz Sidło won the javelin throw , and the young Pole Edmund Piątkowski surprisingly won the discus throw. With 53.92 meters he was ten centimeters ahead of the Bulgarian Todor Artarski and 18 centimeters ahead of the Russian Vladimir Trussenjow .
On June 14, 1959, Piątkowski threw the world record at the Kusocinski Memorial in Warsaw with 59.91 meters and improved the six-year-old Fortune Gordien mark by 63 centimeters. He won the competition with over five meters ahead of Manfred Grieser from the GDR.
In the Olympic year Piątkowski could not build on the form of the previous year. At the Olympic Games in Rome, he only finished fifth with 55.12 meters, while the American Rink Babka , who set the world record shortly before the Games, came in second. Both belong to the five reigning world record holders who were beaten by Al Oerter in his four Olympic victories.
On August 11, 1961, Jay Silvester was the first person to throw the discus over 60 meters at 60.56 meters. Only five days later Piątkowski threw a European record with 60.47 meters in Lodz and was second in the world best of the year in 1961. In September 1962 at the European Championships in Belgrade in 1962 Trussenjow, who had meanwhile replaced Piątkowski as the European record holder, won ahead of Kees Koch from the Netherlands. Piątkowski had with 55.13 meters in fourth place 34 centimeters behind the bronze rank of Lothar Milde from the GDR.
At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 Piątkowski was seventh with 55.81 meters. In 1966 he improved his Polish record from 1961 to 61.06 meters. At the European Championships in Budapest in 1966 , he was again only fourth with 56.76 meters. The three victorious throwers from the GDR Detlef Thorith , Hartmut Losch and Lothar Milde were between 66 and four centimeters in front of him.
In 1967 Piątkowski threw the best distance of his career with 61.12 meters. At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, like four years earlier, he finished seventh, this time with a width of 59.40 meters. In 1969 at the European Championships in Athens he was twelfth with 53.64 meters.
In total, he won 13 Polish championship titles in his career. From 1955 to 1969 he was only unable to win the title in 1956 and 1967.
Edmund Piątkowski was 1.82 m tall and weighed 95 kg during his playing days.
literature
- Manfred Holzhausen: world records and world record holder. Shot put / discus throw. Grevenbroich 2000
- Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Field Athletics. Berlin 1999 (published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation e.V. )
Web links
- Edmund Piątkowski in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Piątkowski, Edmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Konstantynów Łódzki |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 2016 |