Tomasz Jaszczuk

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Tomasz Jaszczuk athletics

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Tomasz Jaszczuk (2015)

Full name Tomasz Jaszczuk
nation PolandPoland Poland
birthday 9th March 1992 (age 28)
place of birth Siedlce , Poland
size 195 cm
Weight 83 kg
Career
discipline Long jump
Best performance 8.18 m
society AZS-AWF Katowice
Trainer Michał Łukasiak
status active
Medal table
U20 European Championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
EAA logo U20 European Championships
silver Tallinn 2011 Long jump
last change: July 14, 2020

Tomasz Jaszczuk (born March 9, 1992 in Siedlce ) is a Polish athlete who specializes in the long jump .

Athletic career

Tomasz Jaszczuk first appeared in national long jump competitions in 2008. In January he became Polish U18 indoor champion straight away. At the beginning of his athletics career, he also competed in sprint courses up to 200 meters. In July 2009 he took part in the U1 World Championships in Brixen, Italy. He jumped 7.50 m in the final and ended up in fourth place. A few weeks later he was also in the open air Polish U18 champion with a top performance of 7.52 m. In 2010 he could not improve, it was not until 2011 that he managed to set new records. The highlight of this was the U20 European Championships in Tallinn, where he won the silver medal with his first jump over the eight-meter mark. Overall, he jumped 8.11 m. He has been competing with adults since 2012. In June he was able to win his first national title. In the same month he also took part in the European Championships for the first time in Helsinki . He went straight to the final, in which he finished eighth of a total of twelve places with 7.90 m. Since 2012, Jaszczuk has been Polish champion a total of eight more times, five times outdoors and three times indoors.

In 2013 Jaszczuk took part in the U23 European Championships in Tampere, where he finished sixth. In 2014, he improved his personal best to 8.15 m before competing at the European Championships in Zurich. He came in the final on 8.07 m and finished seventh. In the following two seasons he did not come close to his bests. It was not until 2017 that he was able to take part in international championships again at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade in March . After successfully qualifying, he jumped in the final, personal indoor best performance of 7.98 m, with which he was fourth. Two months later he also jumped his personal best in the open air with a jump of 8.18 m. In August he was finally able to take part in the World Championships in London. He clearly failed in the qualification.

In 2018 Jaszczuk took part in the European Championships in Berlin in August . He jumped the second largest distance of his season in the final and was able to take fifth place. In 2019 he again took part in the European Indoor Championships . He came in the final on 7.80 m and was sixth. In August, he and the Polish team won the European Team Championships in his Polish homeland. Two months later, he finished seventh at the World Military Games in Wuhan.

Major competitions

year event place space discipline Expanse
Starts for PolandPolandPoland 
2009 U18 world championships ItalyItaly Brixen 4th Long jump 7.50 m
2011 U20 European Championships EstoniaEstonia Tallinn 2. Long jump 8.11 m
2012 European championships FinlandFinland Helsinki 8th. Long jump 7.90 m
2013 U23 European Championships FinlandFinland Tampere 6th Long jump 7.77 m
2014 European championships SwitzerlandSwitzerland Zurich 7th Long jump 8.07 m
2017 European Indoor Championships SerbiaSerbia Belgrade 4th Long jump 7.98 m
World championships United KingdomUnited Kingdom London 26th Long jump 7.64 m
2018 European championships GermanyGermany Berlin 5. Long jump 8.08 m
2019 European Indoor Championships ScotlandScotland Glasgow 6th Long jump 7.80 m

Personal best

open air
Hall
  • Long jump: 7.98 m, March 4, 2017, Belgrade

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. PZLA profile . Retrieved July 14, 2020.