Robert Maćkowiak

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Silver 1999 Seville 4x400 m relay

Robert Maćkowiak (born May 30, 1970) is a Polish sprinter. Together with Tomasz Czubak, Jacek Bocian and Piotr Haczek he won a silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics. Maćkowiak has also won other relay medals as well as individual medals in the 200 metres and 400 metres.

He belonged to the most famous and successful Polish relay team in 90's together with Tomasz Czubak, Piotr Haczek and Piotr Rysiukiewicz. Unfortunately many injuries stayed on their way to join the best relays of all time. The worst thing happened to them in the Olympic Games in Sydney. The Polish team was one of the favourites to get medal (after unstoppable U.S. really there were two main rivals: Jamaica and Bahamas. On the second leg (first ran Rysiukiewicz) Maćkowiak was leading but he had run into a starting box (Polish team run on the eight lane) and Poland lost their medal chances. The relay finished seventh in the competition.

Maćkowiak was also starting in the individual race in which he finished fifth. He was the only white athlete in the race and he started on the first lane so his result was a big success.

Maćkowiak was also one of the favourites on the World Championships in Edmonton 2001). The main rival was German runner Ingo Schultz who had best times in qualification runs. Maćkowiak was a candidate for silver but he got an injury few days before final and he lost chances to fight for medals. He also didn't start in the relay run which took place few days after individual start.

Officially retired at the end of 2006 season.

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Year Tournament Venue Result Extra
1998 European Indoor Championships Valencia, Spain 3rd 400 metres
European Championships Budapest, Hungary 2nd 400 metres
2nd 4x400m relay
1999 World Indoor Championships Maebashi, Japan 2nd 4x400m relay
World Championships Seville, Spain 2nd 4x400m relay
2000 Olympic Games Sydney, Australia 5th 400 m
7th 4x400m relay
2001 World Indoor Championships Lisbon, Portugal 1st 4x400m relay
2002 European Indoor Championships Vienna, Austria 2nd 200 metres
1st 4x400m relay
2005 World Championships Helsinki, Finland 5th 4x400m relay

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