Piotr Klimczak
Polish sprinter
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Nationality | Polish | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1980-01-18) 18 January 1980 (age 44) Nowy Sącz, Poland | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | sprinting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | AZS-AWF Kraków | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Piotr Klimczak (born 18 January 1980, in Nowy Sącz) is a Polish former sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres. He represented his country in the 4 × 400 metres relay at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2004. His biggest success in the relay is the silver medal at the 2006 World Indoor Championships and individually the silver at the 2007 Summer Universiade.
He played football before switching to athletics in 2002.[1] He retired in 2013.
Achievements
Personal bests
- 200 metres - 21.06 s (2006)
- 400 metres - 45.60 s (2005)
References
- Sources
- Piotr Klimczak at World Athletics
- Citations
- ^ "Sztafeta wpadek" (in Polish). Nasze Miasto. 8 March 2005. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
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Summer Universiade champions in men's 4 × 400 metres relay
- 1959: West Germany (Grawitz, Quantz, Klappert, Oberste)
- 1961: West Germany (Hoppe, Schöll, Graßhoff, Grawitz)
- 1963: Great Britain (Metcalfe, Boulter, Campbell, Steane)
- 1965: Italy (Bianchi, Iraldo, Frinolli, Bello)
- 1967: West Germany (Müller, Röper, Krüsmann, Thiemann)
- 1970: United States (Ulan, Colglazier, Turner, James)
- 1973: United States (Bond, Schultz, Lutz, Jenkins)
- 1975: Poland (Hewelt, Pietrzyk, Gondek, Szlendak)
- 1977: United States (Jennings, Smith, Dale, Andrews)
- 1979: United States (Taylor, Kerr, Harris, McCoy)
- 1981: Soviet Union (Zolotaryev, Fedotov, Burakov, Markin)
- 1983: United States (Nix, Tabron, Babers, Wiley)
- 1985: Cuba (Martínez, Peñalver, Ramos, Hernández)
- 1987: United States (Pierre, Daniel, Patrick, Robinzine)
- 1989: Jamaica (O'Connor, Morris, Davis, Burnett)
- 1991: United States (Wilson, Cannon, Irvin, Luke)
- 1993: United States (Jones, Payne, Lyles, Turner)
- 1995: United States (Hayden, Byrd, Morris, Maybank)
- 1997: United States (Terry, Wheeler, Davis, Woodward)
- 1999: United States (Berrian, Couts, Brew, Davis)
- 2001: United States (White, Gerding, Couts, Pierce)
- 2003: Ukraine (Demchenko, Zyukov, Horbenko, Tverdostup)
- 2005: Poland (Wieruszewski, Dąbrowski, Kędzia, Klimczak)
- 2007: Poland (Bańka, Klimczak, Kędzia, Dąbrowski)
- 2009: Australia (Troode, Cole, Thomas, Wroe, Watkins, Burstow)
- 2011: Russia (Sigalovsky, Buryak, Vazhov, Kruglyakov)
- 2013: Russia (Dyldin, Buryak, Kashefrazov, Krasnov)
- 2015: Dominican Republic (J. Santos, Cuesta, Mercedes, L. Santos)
- 2017: Dominican Republic (J. Santos, L. Charles, A. Charles, L. Santos)
- 2019: Mexico (Vega, Jiménez, Ramírez, Mendoza)
- 2021: Turkey (Çanakçi, Ençü, Akçam, Nezir)
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