Elżbieta Krzesińska

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Olympic medal record
Women’s Track and Field
Gold	1956 Melbourne	Long Jump
Silver	1960 Rome	Long Jump

Elżbieta Krzesińska (born 11November 1934, Warsaw) – a Polish athlete (long jump). She competed for Poland in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia in the Long Jump where she won the gold medal. She returned to the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome but failed to defend her title, finishing second behind Soviet Vera Krepkina

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She won Polish championships in Long Jump (1952, 1953, 1954, 1957, 1959, 1962, 1963), 80m Hurdles (1957), and Pentathlon (1953, 1962). Elżbieta Duńska-Krzesińska participated in three Olympic Games. In 1952, she took 12th place in long jump at the 15th Olympic Games in Helsinki. In 1956, she won gold medal at the 16th Olympic Games in Melbourne. In 1960, she won silver medal, behind Vera Krepkina, at the 17th Olympic Games in Rome.

In 1954, Krzesińska took 3rd, behind Jean Desforges, and Alexandra Tschudina, at the 5th European Championships in Athletics in Bern. In 1954, she won both in long jump and pentathlon at World Student Games in Budapest. In August 1956, she broke the world record in long jump (6.35) in Budapest, and equal in November 1956 in the Melbourne Olympics. In 1959, she won at the 1st Universiade in Turin. In 1962, she took 2nd, behind Tatyana Shchelkanova, at the 7th European Championships in Athletics in Belgrade.

She lives in the United States of America.

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