Tomasz Majewski

Tomasz Majewski
Majewski at the 2009 European Indoor Championships
nation	Poland
birthday	30th August 1981 (age 39)
place of birth	Nasielsk ,  Poland
size	204 cm
Weight	140 kg
Career
discipline	Shot put
Best performance	21.95 m
society	KS AZS-AWF Warszawa
Trainer	Henryk Olszewski
National squad	since 2003
status	resigned
End of career	2016
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × 0 × 0 × World championships 0 × 1 × 0 × European championships 1 × 0 × 1 × Indoor world championships 0 × 0 × 2 × European Indoor Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Beijing 2008 21.51 m gold London 2012 21.89 m  World championships silver Berlin 2009 21.91 m European championships gold Helsinki 2010 21.00 m bronze Zurich 2014 20.83 m  Indoor world championships bronze Valencia 2008 20.93 m bronze Istanbul 2012 21.72 m European Indoor Championships gold Turin 2009 21.02 m
last change: August 12, 2014

Tomasz Majewski (born August 30, 1981 in Nasielsk ) is a former Polish shot putter . He became Olympic champion in 2008 and 2012 .

Life

Majewski finished fourth in the 2003 U23 European Championships . His first international success in the active class was fourth place at the 2004 World Indoor Championships in Budapest . At the Olympic Games in Athens he failed in qualifying. In 2005 he finished seventh at the World Championships in Helsinki and won gold at the Universiade in Izmir.

In 2006 Majewski was sixth at the World Indoor Championships in Moscow and at the European Championships in Gothenburg . At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka , he achieved fourth place with his best distance to date of 20.87 m. In 2008 he won bronze at the World Indoor Championships in Valencia with his indoor best performance of 20.93 m.

The first major highlight of his career followed at the Olympic Games in Beijing : with a personal record of 21.51 m, he won the gold medal with a lead of almost half a meter over Christian Cantwell (USA). Then he also won the World Athletics Final in Stuttgart with 20.88 m.

In 2009 Majewski became European champion at the European Indoor Championships in Turin . In the summer he increased his best distance to 21.95 m. At the World Championships in Berlin he came close to this mark with 21.91 m, but still had to admit defeat to Christian Cantwell and took the silver medal. He also came second at the world finals in Thessaloniki.

At the World Indoor Championships in Doha in 2010, he increased the Polish indoor record to 21.20 m, which was only enough for fourth place. At the European Championships in Barcelona , Andrej Michnewitsch finished second, just one centimeter behind Belarusian . In 2013 Michnewitsch was disqualified for violating the doping rules, and Majewski subsequently received gold. At the end of the season he finished second in the first Athletics Continental Cup in Split . The following year he was eighth at the World Championships in Daegu .

In Istanbul he hit a Polish record with 21.72 m at the World Indoor Championships in 2012 and was thus able to secure the bronze medal. At the Olympic Games in London , he was able to repeat his Olympic victory in Beijing. He is the third shot putter in history to have achieved a repeat of the Olympic shot put victory. He hit 21.89 m and was three centimeters ahead of silver medalist David Storl from Germany. In 2013 he finished sixth at the World Championships in Moscow .

Tomasz Majewski is 2.04 m tall and weighs 140 kg. He is trained by Henryk Olszewski and starts for the club Sportowy AZS-AWF Warszawa. He studied politics at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw .

Personal bests

• Shot put: 21.95 m, July 30, 2009, Stockholm
  • Hall: 21.72 m, March 9, 2012, Istanbul

Web links

Commons : Tomasz Majewski  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tomasz Majewski in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Portrait ( Memento from May 3, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at IAAF - Focus on Athletes,
• Brief portrait on the website of the Polish NOK (Polish)
• Tomasz Majewski in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ^ Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University Warsaw: Absolwent UKSW zdobył złoty medal olimpijski