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Medal record 
Maria PiątkowskaWomen's athletics European Championships Gold 1962 Belgrade 4x100 m Relay Bronze 1958 Stockholm 4x100 m Relay Bronze 1962 Belgrade 80 m Hurdles Maria Piątkowska née Ilwicka, then Chojnacka (born 24 February 1931) is a former Polish sprinter, hurdler, and long jumper.
She was a three-time olympian (Helsinki 1952, Rome 1960 and Tokyo 1964) and participated in three different European Championships (1954 Bern, 1958 Stockholm and 1962 Belgrade).
She was a member of a world record-setting 4x100 metre relay team on 13 September 1964 in Łódź, Poland, with the time of 44.2 s.
She won three medals at two different European championships: bronze in 4x100 m relay in 1958 in Stockholm and gold in 4x100 m relay and bronze in 80 metre hurdles in 1962 in Belgrade.
She is the wife of a fellow Polish Olympian, discus thrower Edmund Piątkowski.
She was born in Goleni, Romania, now in Moldova.
References
European Champions in Women's 4 x 100 m relay 1938: Germany (Kohl, Krauß, Albus, Kühnel) • 1946: Netherlands (van der Kade-Koudijs, Witziers-Timmer, Adema, Blankers-Koen) • 1950: Great Britain (Hay, Desforges, Hall, Foulds) • 1954: Soviet Union (Krepkina, Uliskina, Itkina, Turova) • 1958: Soviet Union (Krepkina, Kepp, Polyakova, Maslovskaya) • 1962: Poland (Ciepły, Sobotta, Szyroka, Piątkowska) • 1966: Poland (Bednarek, Straszynska, Kirszenstein, Kłobukowska) • 1969: East Germany (Höfer, Meissner, Podeswa, Vogt) • 1971: West Germany (Schittenhelm, Helten, Irrgang, Mickler) • 1974: East Germany (Maletzki, Stecher, Heinich, Eckert) • 1978: Soviet Union (Anisimova, Maslakova, Kondratyeva, Storoshkova) • 1982: East Germany (Walther, Eckert, Rieger, Göhr) • 1986: East Germany (Gladisch, Rieger, Brestrich-Auerswald, Göhr) • 1990: East Germany (Möller, Krabbe, Behrendt, Günther) • 1994: Germany (Paschke, Knoll, Zipp, Lichtenhagen) • 1998: France (Benth, Bangué, Félix, Arron) • 2002: France (Combe, Hurtis, Félix, Sidibé) • 2006: Russia (Gushchina, Rusakova, Khabarova, Grigoryeva) • 2010: Ukraine (Povh, Pohrebnyak, Ryemyen, Bryzhina)
Categories:- 1931 births
- Living people
- Polish hurdlers
- Polish sprinters
- Polish long jumpers
- Former world record holders in athletics (track and field)
- Olympic athletes of Poland
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Polish athletics biography stubs
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