Tomasz Czubak

Tomasz Czubak medal table
sprinter
Poland
World championships
gold	1999 Seville	4 × 400 m
bronze	1997 Athens	4 × 400 m
European championships
silver	1998 Budapest	4 × 400 m

Tomasz Czubak (born December 16, 1973 in Słupsk ) is a former Polish sprinter who specialized in the 400-meter run .

Internationally, he was particularly successful as a member of the Polish 4 x 400 meter relay . At the World Athletics Championships in Athens in 1997 , he won the bronze medal in 3: 00.26 minutes behind the teams from Great Britain and Jamaica as a starting runner together with Piotr Rysiukiewicz , Piotr Haczek and Robert Maćkowiak .

The same Polish quartet - Czubak and Rysiukiewicz swapped positions - won the silver medal behind the British relay at the 1998 European Athletics Championships in Budapest with a time of 2: 58.88 minutes. In contrast, Czubak narrowly missed a medal in the 400-meter run as fourth in 45.43 minutes.

Czubak celebrated the greatest success of his career by winning the world title in the 4 x 400 meter relay at the 1999 World Athletics Championships in Seville . In the final, he again took the position of the starting runner of the Polish relay, which was completed by Robert Maćkowiak, Jacek Bocian and Piotr Haczek. The quartet reached the goal in 2: 58.91 minutes as second behind the United States team. However, the US relay team was subsequently disqualified for a doping offense by their runner Antonio Pettigrew and lost the title to Poland. Czubak started in Seville in the 400-meter run and reached the semi-finals. There he achieved a Polish national record with 44.62 s, which was not enough to reach the final.

Tomasz Czubak is 1.80 m tall and had a competition weight of 62 kg.

Top performances

• 400 m: 44.62 s, August 24, 1999, Seville
  • Halle: 46.84 s, February 4, 1998, Erfurt

Web links

• Tomasz Czubak in the database of World Athletics (English)