Piotr Haczek
| Piotr Haczek medal table |
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| World championships | ||
| gold | 1999 Seville | 4 × 400 m |
| bronze | 1997 Athens | 4 × 400 m |
| bronze | 2001 Edmonton | 4 × 400 m |
| Indoor world championships | ||
| gold | 2001 Lisbon | 4 × 400 m |
| silver | 1999 Maebashi | 4 × 400 m |
| European championships | ||
| silver | 1998 Budapest | 4 × 400 m |
Piotr Haczek (born January 26, 1977 in Żywiec ) is a former Polish athlete who specialized in the 400-meter run . He celebrated his greatest successes as a relay runner.
In 1997 he won the gold medal in the 4 x 400 meter relay and the silver medal in the 400 meter run at the U23 European Championships . His first international medal in the adult field comes from the World Championships in Athens that year . Together with Tomasz Czubak , Piotr Rysiukiewicz and Robert Maćkowiak he finished fourth in the season in 3: 00.26 min. However, the Polish team later moved up one rank when the US relay was disqualified for a doping offense by their runner Antonio Pettigrew .
The same Polish team won the silver medal behind the British relay at the 1998 European Championships in Budapest . At the World Indoor Championships in Maebashi the following year , Haczek won another silver medal with the relay. Tomasz Czubak was replaced by Jacek Bocian . The Polish relay 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 the line-up of Czubak, Maćkowiak, Bocian, Haczek - finished second behind the US team in 2: 58.91 minutes. Because of Antonio Pettigrew's participation, however, there was also a subsequent disqualification, so that the world championship title went to the Polish quartet. In 1999, as the U23 European champion in the 400-meter run, Haczek also achieved his greatest international success as a single starter.
As in 1996, Haczek started at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney for the Polish relay, which finished seventh there. He also competed over 400 meters and reached the semi-finals. With the same competitors as in 1999 in Maebashi, Haczek started at the World Indoor Championships in 2001 in Lisbon . 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. Haczek's last major success was winning the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 meter relay at the World Championships in Edmonton that year . Together with Rafał Wieruszewski , Piotr Długosielski and Piotr Rysiukiewicz he achieved a time of 2: 59.71 minutes. Once again, the Polish team, which was originally fourth, benefited from Pettigrew's subsequent disqualification.
Piotr Haczek is 1.88 m tall and had a competition weight of 72 kg.
Top performances
- 200 m : 20.97 s, June 17, 2000, Biała Podlaska
- 400 m: 45.43 s, September 23, 2000, Sydney
- (Halle): 46.64 s, February 22, 1999, Spała
Web links
- Piotr Haczek in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Piotr Haczek 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 | |
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| SURNAME | Haczek, Piotr |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Żywiec , Poland |