Elżbieta Krzesińska

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athletics

PolandPoland Poland
Olympic games
gold 1956 Melbourne Long jump
silver 1960 Rome Long jump

Elżbieta Maria Krzesińska (born November 11, 1934 as Elżbieta Duńska in Młociny , today in Warsaw ; † December 29, 2015 ) was a Polish athlete and Olympic champion .

Career

She was successful in the long jump in the 1950s when she jumped a world record and won one gold, two silver and one bronze as well as three gold medals at university world championships in international competitions. It started for the following clubs: Spójnia Gdańsk (1949–1956), LKS Sopot (1957–1960), SLA Sopot - Spójnia Gdańsk (1961–1963) and Skry Warszawa (1964–1965). She was trained by the pole vaulter Andrzej Krzesiński, who at that time had no experience as a coach. Both married in 1955. Krzesińska was 1.70 m tall and weighed 62 kg during her playing days.

From 1952 to 1963 she was in the Polish national team 25 times and achieved 14 individual victories in a total of 30 starts. In 1956 she was voted Polish Sportswoman of the Year . In 1989, when she was 55 years old, she took part in the Senior World Championships in Eugene ( USA ) and won the gold medal in the long jump with the age group record of 6.00 m.

Life

Krzesińska grew up in Elbląg , where she attended the Kazimierz Jagiełłończyk High School and Lyceum. She then studied at the Gdańsk Medical Academy , which she graduated in 1963. In 1968, after completing a distance learning course at Poznań University , she obtained her trainer license.

She was a dentist by profession . Her husband Andrzej works as a trainer. The couple had a daughter (Elżbieta, an engineer by profession) and two grandchildren. In 1981 they left Poland and worked as a track and field coach in the USA. There the family lived in Eugene, Oregon . In 2000 they returned to Poland.

The title of her autobiography Zamiatane warkoczem (German: "From the braid blurred") refers to a curiosity that she experienced on her Olympic debut as a 17-year-old: The Finnish judges measured her jump not by the footprint, but by the impression of her long one Braid, as a result of which she lost about half a meter and was only twelfth.

Services

Olympic games

European championships

Student World Championships and Universiades

Participation in 1951, 1954, 1955, 1959 and 1961

  • 1954 Budapest: Gold in the long jump with 6.12 m and gold in the pentathlon with 3971 points
  • 1959 Turin: Gold in the long jump with 5.94 m

State championships

  • Long jump: 1952, 1953, 1954, 1957, 1959, 1962, 1963
  • 80 m hurdles: 1957
  • Pentathlon: 1953, 1962

Records

  • World records:
    • 6.35 m, achieved on August 20 in Budapest and on November 27, 1956 in Melbourne
  • National records:
    • Long jump: 4 records, best performance 6.35 m
    • 80 m hurdles: 2 records, best performance 11.0 s, run on July 1, 1961 in Poznan
    • High jump: 1 record - 1.625 m, jumped on August 28, 1955 in Olecko
    • Pentathlon: 3 records
  • Personal best in the sprint: 100 m in 12.1 s and 200 m in 25.7 s, run on August 18, 1962 in Elbing and August 7, 1954 in Budapest

Web links

Commons : Elżbieta Duńska-Krzesińska  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zmarła Złota Ela. Sportową karierę rozpoczynała w Elblągu. December 29, 2015, accessed March 26, 2019 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Never żyje “Złota Ela” Elżbieta Krzesińska . Polish Athletics Federation, December 29, 2015, accessed December 31, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Krzesińska, Elżbieta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duńska, Elżbieta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish athlete
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 2015