Marian Woronin

Medal record
Marian Woronin
Men's athletics
Competitor for  Poland
Olympic Games
Silver	1980 Moscow	4x100 metre relay
European Championships
Gold	1978 Prague	4×100 m relay
Bronze	1982 Athens	100 metres
European Athletics Indoor Championships
Gold	1979 Vienna	60 metres
Gold	1980 Sindelfingen	60 metres
Gold	1981 Grenoble	60 metres
Gold	1982 Milan	60 metres
European Cup
Silver	1979 Turin	100 metres
Bronze	1979 Turin	200 metres
Gold	1979 Turin	4x100 metres
Gold	1981 Zurich	4×100 m relay
Gold	1985 Moscow	100 metres
World Cup
Bronze	1979 Montreal	100 metres
Gold	1981 Rome	4×100 m relays

Marian Jerzy Woronin (born August 13, 1956 in Grodzisk Mazowiecki) is a retired Polish athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. He is a four-time European Indoor Champion in the 60 metres. He won nine Polish outdoor titles, and nine indoor titles.

His first major medal came at the 1978 European Athletics Championships, where he anchored the Polish 4×100 metres relay team of Zenon Nowosz, Zenon Licznerski and Leszek Dunecki to the gold medal in the event. He won the bronze in the 100 m at the 1979 IAAF World Cup, running for Europe.

He competed for Poland in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Soviet Union in the 100 and 200 he reached both finals finishing seventh in both sprints. In the 4×100 metres relay he won the silver medal with his team mates Krzysztof Zwoliński, Licznerski and Dunecki.

In 1981 he ran with the Polish/Europe sprint relay team that won the gold at the 1981 IAAF World Cup in Rome. He won a bronze in the 100 metres at the 1982 European Athletics Championships.

His fastest time for the 100 m was 10.00 seconds, recorded in 1984 in Warsaw with wind on the maximum allowable limit of 2.0 m/s. This was the European record for the event until Linford Christie ran 9.97 sec at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Although Woronin's official timing read as 10.00 seconds, this was rounded up from 9.992 seconds – some claim this represents the first time that a Caucasian broke the 10-second barrier in the event.^[1] He is one of only four individuals not of West African descent to run 100 metres in 10.00 s or less – the others being Koji Ito of Japan (10.00 in 1998), Australian Patrick Johnson (9.93 s in 2003) and Christophe Lemaitre (9.92 in 2011), who is widely accepted as the first Caucasian to officially break the barrier.

Woronin's personal best in the 200 m was 20.49.

Indoor Success List

Marian Woronin won 50 or/and 60m final in the European Athletics Indoor Championships in:

• 1979 in 6.57 s
• 1980 in 6.62 s
• 1981 over 50 m in 5.65 s
• 1982 in 6.61 s
• 1987 (in Lievin) in 6.51 s.
• He was 3rd in 1977.^[2]

References

1. ^ Błąd w odczycie wyniku Justina Gatlina
2. ^ http://www.european-athletics.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3464&Itemid=118

External links

• IAAF profile for Marian Woronin
• Marian Woronin runs in 1985

Records
Preceded by Pietro Mennea	European Record Holder Men's 100 m 9 June 1984 - 23 September 1988	Succeeded by Linford Christie

Persondata
Name	Woronin, Marian
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Date of birth	August 13, 1956
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