Ryszard Skowronek

Ryszard Skowronek (born May 1, 1949 in Jelenia Góra ) is a former Polish athlete . The 1.83 m tall and 82 kg heavy Skowronek won the 1974 European decathlon champion .

Life

Skowronek competed both at the European Championships in Helsinki in 1971 and at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , but did not finish both times the competition. In 1973 he won the Universiade in Moscow with 7965 points , 62 points ahead of Olympic champion Mykola Avilov . In September 1973 the final of the first European Cup of all-around fighters was held in Bonn . In the individual standings, the Swede Lennart Hedmark won ahead of the French Yves LeRoy . Skowronek was third with 7936 points, but won the European Cup together with Ryszard Katus and Tadeusz Janczenko .

At the 1974 European Championships in Rome , Skowronek managed his best decathlon. With a Polish national record of 8207 points, he won ahead of Yves Leroy with 8146 points and the young German Guido Kratschmer with 8132 points. Even Leonid Lytvynenko from the Soviet Union remained in fourth place with 8122 points over the 8000-point mark. After the first day, Skowronek was still in third place behind Kratschmer and LeRoy, in particular 5.10 m in the pole vault helped him to the European championship record on the second day.

In the decathlon at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , seven athletes stayed above the 8,000 point mark. Behind Bruce Jenner's world record , Kratschmer and Awilow took the medal ranks. Skowronek was fifth with 8113 points behind the Finn Raimo Pihl .

Skowronek was Polish decathlon champion in 1973, 1976 and 1977. He began his career with Amator Jelenia Góra, later he competed for Śląsk Wrocław, AZS Wrocław, AZS Śląsk Katowice and for AZS-AWF Katowice.

Best performance

• Decathlon: 8207 points (8229 points according to the point scoring valid since 1985)

Individual performances in this competition: 10.97 s - 7.49 m - 13.10 m - 1.95 m - 47.91 s - 14.79 s - 43.26 m - 5.10 m - 64.14 m - 4: 30.9 min

literature

• Hans van Kuijen: European Cup Combined Events 1973–2007. Helmond 2007
• Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Field Athletics. Berlin 1999 (published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV )