Szymon Ziółkowski

Szymon Ziółkowski
Szymon Ziółkowski 2015
Full name	Szymon Jerzy Ziółkowski
nation	Poland
birthday	1st July 1976 (age 44)
place of birth	Poznan , Poland
size	192 cm
Weight	120 kg
job	Politician
Career
discipline	Hammer throw
Best performance	83.38 m (August 5, 2001 in Edmonton )
society	AZS AWF Poznań
Trainer	Krzysztof Kaliszewski , Henryk Olszewski
status	active
End of career	July 7, 2015
Medal table
Olympic Summer Games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 1 × 2 × 0 × European championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Goodwill Games 0 × 1 × 0 × U23 European Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × U20 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Sydney 2000 80.02 m  World championships gold Edmonton 2001 83.38 m silver Helsinki 2005 79.35 m silver Berlin 2009 79.30 m  European championships bronze Helsinki 2012 76.67 m  Goodwill Games silver Brisbane 2001 80.71 m  U23 European Championships silver Turku 1997 73.68 m  Junior World Championships gold Lisbon 1994 70.44 m  Junior European Championships gold Nyíregyháza 1995 75.42 m
last change: March 31, 2020

Szymon Jerzy Ziółkowski (born July 1, 1976 in Poznan ) is a former Polish hammer thrower . He was Olympic champion in 2000 and world champion in 2001 and 2005, making him one of the most successful hammer throwers of all time. After his sporting career, he sat from 2015 to 2019 as a member of the Platforma Obywatelska in the Sejm , the Polish parliament.

Athletic career

Szymon Ziółkowski gained his first international experience in 1993 at the Junior European Championships in San Sebastian , where he took sixth place with a width of 62.42 m. The following year he took part in the Junior World Championships in Lisbon and won there with a throw of 70.44 m. He was also victorious in 1995 at the Junior European Championships in Nyíregyháza , where he won the gold medal with 75.42 m. He then took part in the World Championships in Gothenburg for the first time, but was eliminated there with 71.84 m in qualification before he finished ninth at the Summer Universiade in Fukuoka with 72.94 m. The following year he qualified for the first time to take part in the Olympic Games in Atlanta , where he made it to the finals straight away and finished tenth with a throw on 76.64 m.

In 1997 he won the silver medal at the U23 European Championships in Turku with 73.68 m and only had to admit defeat to Belarusian Ivan Zichan . The following year he was at the European Championships in Budapest with 78.16 m fifth and in 1999 he was eliminated at the World Championships in Seville with 74.12 m in qualification. In the following year he qualified again for the Olympic Games in Sydney and remained there with 80.02 m in the final as the only athlete above the 80-meter mark and thus became the first Pole to secure the gold medal in the Olympic hammer throw competition before the Italian Nicola Vizzoni .

In 2001 he won the Francophonie Games with a width of 79.89 m and shortly thereafter increased the Polish national record to 83.38 m at the World Championships in Canada , thereby setting a new championship record and winning the gold medal ahead of the Japanese Kōji Murofushi . With this width, Ziółkowski (as of March 2020) is in 15th place on the all-time best list. Then he had to admit defeat at the Goodwill Games in Brisbane with 80.71 m to the Japanese Murofushi and won the silver medal. He was also considered a favorite for the European Athletics Championships in Munich in 2002 , but was surprisingly eliminated with 77.17 m in the qualification. The following year he played only two competitions, but qualified again in 2004 for the Olympic Games in Athens , where he did not reach the final with 76.17 m .

In 2005 he won the silver medal at the World Championships in Helsinki with a width of 79.35 m after the two Belarusians Iwan Zichan and Wadsim Dzewjatouski were disqualified for doping. He then finished fourth at the World Athletics Final in Szombathely with 77.49 m. The following year he was fourth at the European Championships in Gothenburg with 78.97 m and then reached seventh place at the World Athletics Final in Stuttgart with 77.44 m. In 2007 he finished seventh at the World Championships in Osaka with 80.09 m and finished eighth at the World Athletics Final in Stuttgart with 74.54 m. In 2008 he took part in his fourth Olympic Games in Beijing , where he finished seventh with 79.22 m in the final before finishing fourth with 75.33 m in the World Athletics Final in Stuttgart.

The 2009 season was again more successful for Ziółkowski and so he won the silver medal behind the Slovenian Primož Kozmus at the World Championships in Berlin with a width of 79.30 m and then finished sixth at the World Athletics Final in Thessaloniki with 76.96 m. The following year he reached the final at the European Championships in Barcelona , where he finished fifth with 77.99 m and thus again did not win a medal at the continental level. At the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu , South Korea , he reached seventh place with 77.64 m and in 2012 he won the bronze medal at the European Championships in Helsinki with 76.67 m behind the Hungarians Krisztián Pars and Alexei Sagorny from Russia. He then made it to the finals at the Olympic Games in London , where he finished sixth with 77.10 m. In 2013 he finished ninth at the World Championships in Moscow with 76.84 m, and the following year he was fifth at the European Championships in Zurich with 78.41 m. On July 7, 2015, he competed in his last competition at the Gyulai István Memorial in Székesfehérvár , where he achieved tenth place with a throw of 67.71 m.

Ziółkowski was also the most successful Polish hammer thrower at the national level, so he was the Polish hammer thrower champion in 1997, from 1999 to 2002, from 2004 to 2009, and in 2011 and 2013. In the hall he occasionally competed in weight throwing . He graduated from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan with a degree in mathematics . From January 1, 2010 to December 31, he was also a member of the competition committee of the IAAF World Athletics Federation .

Political career

Szymon Ziółkowski in the Sejm (2015)

In 2014, Szymon Ziółkowski ran for the first time for the Regional Council of the Greater Poland Voivodeship for the list of Ryszard Grobelny , the Teraz Wielkopolska Committee, but remained unsuccessful. In the following year he ran for the Platforma Obywatelska (German civil platform) in the Poznan district in the parliamentary elections and won a seat for the Sejm , the parliament, with 29,760 votes . There he resigned after four years, as he missed a return in the 2019 parliamentary elections with 12,657 votes.

Awards

• Order of Polonia Restituta : 2000 (knight), 2009 (officer)

Web links

Commons : Szymon Ziółkowski  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Szymon Ziółkowski in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Szymon Ziółkowski in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete profile at the PZLA

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ziolkowski is in the picture for further success - but don't tell his wife! ( English ) IAAF. August 15, 2001. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
2. ↑ Szymon Ziółkowski w Komisji Zawodniczej IAAF ( polish ) PZLA. August 13, 2009. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
3. ^ Result of the 2015 parliamentary elections in the 39th district
4. ^ Result of the 2015 parliamentary elections in the 39th district