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Maria Piątkowska
Maria Piątkowska (; previously ''Chojnacka'', née Ilwicka; 24 February 193119 December 2020) was a Polish sprinter, hurdler, and long jumper. She won the 4 × 100 m relay event at the 1962 European Athletics Championships, and came third in two other European Athletics Championships events. She was Polish national champion in long jump, pentathlon, and the 80 metres running event. Career Piątkowska was a member of Legia Warsaw athletics club, and the University Sports Association of Poland. In 1951 and 1958, she won the Polish National Championships long jump event. In 1954, she won the Polish National Championships pentathlon event, and in 1959 and 1963, she won the Polish National Championships 80 metres event. Piątkowska competed at the Summer Olympic Games in 1952, 1960, and 1964. At the 1964 Games, she finished sixth in the 80 metres hurdles event, in a time of 10.7 seconds. Piątkowska competed at three European Athletics Championships, in 1954, 1958, and 1962. In 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sport Of Athletics
Athletics is a group of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping and throwing. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, cross-country running, and racewalking. The results of racing events are decided by finishing position (or time, where measured), while the jumps and throws are won by the athlete that achieves the highest or furthest measurement from a series of attempts. The simplicity of the competitions, and the lack of a need for expensive equipment, makes athletics one of the most common types of sports in the world. Athletics is mostly an individual sport, with the exception of relay (athletics), relay races and competitions which combine athletes' performances for a team score, such as cross country. Organized athletics are traced back to the ancient Olympic Games from 776 BC. The rules and format of the modern athletics events, events in athletics were defined in Western Europe an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summer Olympic Games
The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The 1896 Summer Olympics, inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, then part of the Kingdom of Greece, and the most recent was held in 2024 Summer Olympics, 2024 in Paris, France. This was the first international multi-sport event of its kind, organised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) founded by Pierre de Coubertin. The tradition of awarding medals began in 1904 Summer Olympics, 1904; in each Olympic Games, Olympic event, gold medals are awarded for first place, silver medals for second place, and bronze medals for third place. The Winter Olympic Games were created out of the success of the Summer Olympic Games, which are regarded as the largest and most prestigious multi-sport international event in the world. The Summer Olympics have increased in scope from a 42-event competition programme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Górecka
Halina Sylwia Górecka (née Richter, later Herrmann; born 4 February 1938) is a retired Polish and German sprinter. At the Summer Olympics she competed for Poland in 1956, 1960 and 1964 and for West Germany West Germany was the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. It is sometimes known as the Bonn Republi ... in 1968. She won a bronze and a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay in 1960 and 1964, respectively. The Polish team set a world record in the 1964 final, but it was annulled after one teammate, Ewa Kłobukowska, failed a gender test in 1967.Halina Richter-Górecka-Herrmann sports-refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irena Szewińska
Irena Szewińska (née Kirszenstein; Polish pronunciation: ; 24 May 1946 – 29 June 2018) was a Polish sprinter who was one of the world's foremost track athletes for nearly two decades, in multiple events. She won a total of seven Olympic medals including three golds. She is the only athlete in history, male or female, to have held the world record in the 100 m, the 200 m and the 400 m events. She was voted the Polish Sports Personality of the Year four times. In 2016, she was awarded Poland's highest decoration, the Order of the White Eagle. Personal life Irena Kirszenstein was born in Leningrad to a Polish-Jewish family. Her father came from Warsaw and mother from Kiev. They met in Samarkand where they studied at the time, and in 1947 moved to Warsaw. In 1967, she married her coach, Janusz Szewiński, who also competed in hurdles at the national level and later worked as a sports photographer. They have two sons, Andrzej Szewiński (born 1970), who played volleybal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TVP Sport
TVP Sport is a Polish sport channel, owned by TVP, launched on 18 November 2006. The channel is available on Platforma Canal+, Polsat Box, as well as over cable providers. Broadcast SD broadcasting via satellite (''Eutelsat Hot Bird'') stopped on 6 April 2017. Programms *''Sportowy wieczór'' - evening information programm (also on TVP Info) *''Sportowy top tygodnia'' - discussion of the week's topics with guests and artificial intelligence (AI) *''Gol'' - Monday football magazine (with main priority on PKO BP Ekstraklasa) *''Ring TVP Sport'' - magazine about box industry *''Retro TVP Sport'' - programm about sport events from the TVP archives *''Pełnosprawni'' - magazine about athletes with disabilities (also on TVP1) *''To zaleźy'' - interview with a focus on psychology *''Kamera TVP Sport'' - series of reports and interviews Broadcast rights Athletics *European Athletics Championships * European Indoor Athletics Championships *World Athletics Championships * World Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elżbieta Szyroka
Elżbieta or Elžbieta may refer to: * Elżbieta, Lublin Voivodeship, a village in eastern Poland * Elżbieta-Kolonia, a village in eastern Poland * Elżbieta, a Polish given name equivalent to Elizabeth Elizabeth or Elisabeth may refer to: People * Elizabeth (given name), a female given name (including people with that name) * Empress Elisabeth (other), lists various empresses named ''Elisabeth'' or ''Elizabeth'' * Princess Elizabeth ... * Elžbieta, a Lithuanian given name equivalent to Elizabeth See also * {{disambiguation Lithuanian feminine given names Polish feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Sobotta
Barbara Sobotta-Janiszewska (née Lerczak; December 4, 1936, in Poznań – November 20, 2000, in Kraków) was a Polish athlete who mainly competed in the women's sprint events during her career. In 1958 in Stockholm, she won the European Championships 200 metres race (as Maria Leontyavna Itkina won the bronze medal). She competed for Poland at the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy where she won the bronze medal in the women's 4 × 100 metres with her teammates Teresa Wieczorek, Celina Jesionowska and Halina Richter. Additional images File:Barbara Sobotta.jpg File:B.Sobotta Poznan.jpg, Commemorative plaque outside Barbara Sobotta's family home at 41a Wierzbięcice Street in Poznań Poznań ( ) is a city on the Warta, River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business center and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's ... References * 1936 birth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teresa Ciepły
Teresa Barbara Ciepły (''née'' Wieczorek; 19 October 1937 – 8 March 2006) was a Polish sprinter and hurdler who competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Biography At the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, she represented Poland and won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 metre relay. Shortly after the 1960 Olympics she married Olgierd Ciepły, an Olympic hammer thrower. Two years later she won gold medals in the 4 × 100 m relay (in European record time of 44.5 seconds) and the 80 m hurdles, and a bronze medal in the 100 m sprint at the 1962 European Championships. The same year she was chosen as the Polish Sportspersonality of the year. At the 1964 Olympics she won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay, in a world record time of 43.6 seconds, and a silver in the 80 m hurdles. Nationally Ciepły won the Polish titles in the 80 m hurdles (1961–62, 1964–1965) and in the 100 m sprint (1960–1962). Ciepły finished second behind Pat Jones in the 80 metres hurdles event at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onet
Onet.pl is the largest Polish-language web portal and online news platform. According to Digital News Report, it is the largest online news source in the country, reaching 42% Internet users every week. It is also one of the most-quoted news media in Poland. History and ownership It was founded in 1996 by Optimus company and is owned by the Kraków-based Grupa Onet.pl S.A. According to Alexa rankings, as of October 2017, it was the 45th most popular website worldwide and the 3rd most popular site in Poland. As of December 2016, it is the 6th most visited website in Poland, 311th in the UK, and 375th worldwide. Ringier Axel Springer Media AG holds the majority of Onet since 2012. Services Among its services is a Polish online encyclopedia, the WIEM Encyklopedia. It also has a licence for Rebtel service (marketed in Poland as OnetRebtel) and Skype service (marketed in Poland as OnetSkype). Its other services include email, web hosting, Usenet access, web forums and online ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 European Athletics Championships
The 6th European Athletics Championships were held from 19–24 August 1958 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium, Olympic Stadium of Stockholm, Sweden. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald. Medal summary Complete results were published. Men Women Medal table Participation According to an unofficial count, 629 athletes from 26 countries participated in the event, three athletes more than the official number of 626 as published. A joint German team comprising athletes from both East and West Germany was competing. Assignment of the athletes to East or West Germany was accomplished using the database of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Leichtathletik-Dokumentation 1990 e.V. * (15) * (13) * (8) * (24) * (9) * (29) * (38) * (76) ** (25) ** (51) * (14) * (22) * (9) * (4) * (35) * (1) * (21) * (25) * (49) * (1) * (7) * (68) * (7) * (48) * (23) * (5) * (55) * (23) References * * External links European Athletics * {{Authority c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 European Athletics Championships
The 5th European Athletics Championships were held at Stadion Neufeld from 25–29 August 1954 in the Swiss capital Bern. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald. Medal summary Complete results were published. Men Women Medal table Participation According to an unofficial count, 689 athletes from 28 countries participated in the event, three athletes more than the official number of 686 as published. * (25) * (29) * (9) * (42) * (7) * (31) * (49) * (7) * (41) * (7) * (3) * (24) * (4) * (2) * (12) * (13) * (35) * (9) * (24) * (9) * (68) * Spain (4) * (37) * (50) * (16) * (46) * (62) * (24) References * * External links EAA* {{European athletics champs European Athletics Championships European Athletics Championships European Athletics Championships The European Athletics Championships is a biennial (from 2010) athletics event organised by the European Athletic Association and is recognised as the elite continenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics At The 1964 Summer Olympics – Women's 80 Metres Hurdles
The women's 80 metres hurdles was the only women's hurdle race in the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 18 October and 19 October 1964. 31 athletes from 20 nations entered, with 4 not starting the first round. The first round was held on 18 October, with the semifinals and final on 19 October. The 1965 film ''Tokyo Olympiad'' by Kon Ichikawa shows amazingly great detail of the preliminaries, preparation, final and medal ceremony surrounding this event. The slow motion study of the final shows Yoda Ikuko getting a fast start. Joining Ikuko in the lead is Teresa Ciepły. Rosie Bonds crashed the second hurdle and is awkward the rest of the race. By the third hurdle Pam Kilborn has overtaken Ikuko and Ciepły for the lead. Karin Balzer Karin Balzer (''née'' Richert; 5 June 1938 – 17 December 2019) was an East German hurdler who competed in the 80 m hurdles event at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics, and in the 100 m hurdles in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
