Poland at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics

Poland at the
World Championships in Athletics


Flag of Poland
IAAF code POL
National federation Polski Związek Lekkiej Atletyki
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At the 2009 World Championships in Athletics
in Berlin
Competitors 42
Medals Gold
2
Silver
4
Bronze
2
Total
8
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2011

Poland competed at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics from 15–23 August. A team of over 40 athletes was announced in preparation for the competition.[1] Selected athletes have achieved one of the competition's qualifying standards. The squad includes both Polish athletes who were 2008 Olympics medalists: Tomasz Majewski (gold at shot put and 2009 world leaders[2] ) and Piotr Małachowski (silver at discus throw). Anna Rogowska (third in 2004 Olympics at pole vault) and Szymon Ziółkowski (2000 Olympic champion in the hammer throw) also participated in the Championships. In the women's hammer throw, Anita Włodarczyk of Poland won gold medal with a distance of 77,96m, which is a new world record.

Poland won 8 medals in the Championships and has 5th rank among all participating countries Medal Table. It is the best result of Poland of all World Championships in Athletics.

Team selection

Track and road events
Event Athletes
Men Women
100 meters Dariusz Kuć Marika Popowicz
200 meters
400 meters Marcin Marciniszyn
800 meters Adam Kszczot
Marcin Lewandowski
Anna Zagórska-Rostkowska
1500 meters Lidia Chojecka
Sylwia Ejdys
5000 meters
10,000 meters
Marathon Henryk Szost
3000 m steeplechase Tomasz Szymkowiak Katarzyna Kowalska
100 meter hurdles Joanna Kocielnik
110 meter hurdles Artur Noga
400 meter hurdles Anna Jesień
20 km race walk Artur Brzozowski
Jakub Jelonek
Agnieszka Dygacz
50 km race walk Rafał Augustyn
Rafał Fedaczyński
Grzegorz Sudoł
4×100 meter relay Michal Bielczyk
Dariusz Kuc
Mikolaj Lewanski
Rafal Kubaczyk
DNS
Iwona Ziolkowska
Marta Jeschke
Dorota Jedrusinska
Iwona Brzezinska
Joanna Kocielnik (res.)
4×400 meter relay Marcin Marciniszyn
Piotr Klimczak
Kacper Kozlowski
Jan Ciepiela
Rafal Wieruszewski (elim.)

Field and combined events
Event Athletes
Men Women
High jump Sylwester Bednarek
Grzegorz Sposób
Kamila Stepaniuk
Pole vault Łukasz Michalski Joanna Piwowarska
Monika Pyrek
Anna Rogowska
Long jump Teresa Dobija
Triple jump Małgorzata Trybańska
Shot put Tomasz Majewski
Discus throw Piotr Małachowski Żaneta Glanc
Wioletta Potępa
Joanna Wiśniewska
Hammer throw Szymon Ziółkowski Anita Włodarczyk
Javelin throw Igor Janik
Adrian Markowski
Barbara Madejczyk
Urszula Piwnicka
Heptathlon Kamila Chudzik
Karolina Tymińska
Decathlon

References

  1. Entry list. Retrieved on 2009-08-15.
  2. "Jutro ruszają XII MŚ w lekkiej atletyce" (in Polish). wiadomosci24.pl. 2009-08-14. Retrieved 2009-08-15.

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