Jacek Bocian

Jacek Bocian medal table

sprinter
Poland Poland
World championships
gold	1999 Seville	4 × 400 m
Indoor world championships
gold	2001 Lisbon	4 × 400 m
silver	1999 Maebashi	4 × 400 m

Jacek Bocian (born September 15, 1976 in Kalisz ) is a former Polish athlete who specialized in the 400-meter run . He celebrated his greatest successes as a relay runner.

At the World Indoor Championships in Maebashi in 1999 , he won the silver medal with the Polish 4 x 400 meter relay . Together with Piotr Haczek , Piotr Rysiukiewicz and Robert Maćkowiak he set an indoor European record with a time of 3: 03.01 min. Only the US team was faster in this race and achieved an indoor world record (3: 02.83 min).

Half a year later at the World Championships in Seville , the same result was initially apparent. The Polish season - this time with Tomasz Czubak instead of Piotr Rysiukiewicz - finished second behind the US team in 2: 58.91 minutes. The latter, however, was later disqualified because of a doping offense of its runner Antonio Pettigrew , so that the world championship title went to the Polish quartet.

Bocian also started at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney for the Polish relay, which finished seventh there. However, he was only used in the preliminary round. For this he was used again in the finals of the World Indoor Championships in Lisbon in 2001 . His colleagues were the same as in Maebashi in 1999. This time the Polish team secured the title in 3: 04.47 min and surprisingly beat the favored US season by 17 hundredths of a second.

Jacek Bocian is 1.80 m tall and had a competition weight of 65 kg.

Top performances

400 m (open air): 45.99 s, August 5, 2000, Krakow
400 m (hall): 46.68 s, February 22, 1999, Spała

Web links

Jacek Bocian in the database of World Athletics (English)
Jacek Bocian in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

↑ Here, too, the US relay team was subsequently disqualified because of Pettigrew's doping offense, so that the Polish relay team actually took sixth place.
↑ However, the US relay was subsequently disqualified for doping its runner Jerome Young .

personal data
SURNAME	Bocian, Jacek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish athlete
DATE OF BIRTH	September 15, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kalisz , Poland

[1] Here, too, the US relay team was subsequently disqualified because of Pettigrew's doping offense, so that the Polish relay team actually took sixth place.

[2] However, the US relay was subsequently disqualified for doping its runner Jerome Young .