Tadeusz Ruth

Tadeusz Rut (born October 11, 1931 in Przeworsk , † March 27, 2002 in Warsaw ) was a Polish athlete . With a height of 1.83 m, his competition weight was 90 kg.

Tadeusz Rut had his greatest successes both nationally and internationally as a hammer thrower . In 1956 he was also Polish champion in discus throwing and took part in this discipline at the Olympic Games in Melbourne. With 46.61 meters he was eliminated in qualification.

Career as a hammer thrower

Tadeusz Rut took part in the European Championships in Bern in 1954 and finished fourth with a new Polish record of 57.70 meters. However , he had a gap of more than two meters to third-placed Hungary József Csermák . At the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956, Rut finished fourteenth with 53.43 meters.

Tadeusz Rut achieved his greatest success at the 1958 European Championships in Stockholm. In a final, in which eight throwers threw the hammer over the 60-meter mark, he once again improved the Polish record and became European champion with 64.78 meters. He had a lead of exactly one meter over Mikhail Kriwonosow from the Soviet Union, who finished third with Gyula Zsivótzky from Hungary with 63.68 meters.

At the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 , the Belarusian Vasily Rudenkow , who started for the Soviet Union, won with 67.10 meters in front of Zsivótzky 65.79 meters and Rut with 65.64 meters. The bronze medal was the only Olympic medal for a Polish hammer thrower until 2000 in Sydney Szymon Ziółkowski was Olympic champion.

Tadeusz Rut also started at the following major events, but could not win any more medals. At the European Championships in Belgrade in 1962 , he finished 8th with 62.95 meters. At the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, he was tenth with 64.52 meters. At the European Championships in 1966 he could not qualify for the final with 61.52 meters.

In hammer throw Tadeusz Rut was Polish champion in the years 1955–1958, 1961 and 1964–1965. In total, he set 19 Polish national records in hammer throw.

Top performances

• Bullet: 15.82 meters (1962)
• Discus: 51.04 meters (1959)
• Hammer: 67.07 meters (1964)

literature

• Peter Matthews (Ed): Athletics 2003 . Cheltenham 2003, ISBN 1-899807-16-0
• Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896–1996 Track and Field Athletics, Berlin 1999, published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV