Leszek Dunecki

Leszek Dunecki medal table
Leszek Dunecki 2013
sprinter
Poland
Olympic games
silver	1980 Moscow	4 × 100 m
European championships
gold	1978 Prague	4 × 100 m
European Indoor Championships
silver	1979 Vienna	60 m

Leszek Ryszard "Lech" Dunecki (born October 2, 1956 in Toruń ) is a former Polish sprinter .

Leszek Dunecki is the son of the former sprinter Grzegorz Dunecki , who was Polish champion in the 200-meter run in 1939 and multiple silver and bronze medalist at Polish athletics championships from 1937 to 1939 and 1947/48. He began his career as a long jumper and became Junior European Champion in this discipline in 1975 with a distance of 7.98 m. Ultimately, however, he decided to switch to the sprint area. There he was a total of seven times Polish champion, five times in the 200-meter run (1978-1981, 1984) and once in the 100-meter run (1984) and in the 4-by-100-meter relay (1982).

His first major international success as a sprinter was winning the European title in the 4 x 100 meter relay in 1978. Together with Zenon Nowosz , Zenon Licznerski and Marian Voronin , he relegated the relay teams of the GDR and the Soviet Union to their places in a championship record time of 38.58 s. Dunecki also finished fifth in the 100 meter run. In 1979 he won the silver medal in the 60-meter run at the European Indoor Championships in Vienna . In the same year he won two more silver medals at the Universiade in Mexico City over 100 and 200 meters.

At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , he won the silver medal behind the Soviet and in front of the French relay together with Zenon Licznerski, Marian Voronin and Krzysztof Zwoliński in a national record time of 38.33 s. In addition, Dunecki took sixth place in the 200-meter run. In 1981 he won the Polish relay team at the World Cup in Athletics and, for the second time since 1979, at the European Athletics Cup .

Leszek Dunecki is 1.80 m tall and had a competition weight of 73 kg. He attended the Sports University in Warsaw from 1977 to 1982 and started for Start Lublin from 1983 to 1986 . The 400 meter runner and Olympian Małgorzata Dunecka (née Gajewska) is his wife.

Web links

• Leszek Dunecki in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete portrait by Leszek Dunecki on the website of the Polish OK