Ministerstwo Sportu i Turystyki Nine medals of Polish athletes - Aktualności -

During the jubilee, 20^th European Athletics Championships which took place in Barcelona (Spain) from 26 July until 1 August, 2010, Polish athletes have reached the 8^th place of the medal table with a total of 2 gold, 2 silver and 5 bronze medals and 7^th position in the so-called “point classification”.

To the 116 medals which have already been gained by the Polish athletes during all former European Athletics Championships (outdoor), this time Polish sportsmen added 9 more:

2 gold medals:

1. Marcin Lewandowski – 800m,
2. Piotr Małachowski – discus,

2 silver medals:

1. Grzegorz Sudoł – 50 km walk,
2. Tomasz Majewski – shot put,

5 bronze medals:

1. Joanna Wiśniewska – discus,
2. Anita Włodarczyk – hammer,
3. Adam Kszczot – 800m,
4. Przemysław Czerwiński -  pole vault,
5. 4×100m women relay race.

Altogether 71 Polish athletes participated in the Championships, which was the biggest ever number of Polish sportsmen participating in such an event. The Polish National Team has reached the best performance since 1974, when in Rome Polish athletes have won 10 medals including 4 gold ones.

In her first attempt during the qualifications Małgorzata Trybańska broke her own Poland’s record result in the triple-jump with the result of 14.44m.

The women 4×100m relay (Marika Popowicz, Daria Korczyńska, Marta Jaschke, Weronika Wedler) has also broken Poland’s record result with 42.68 sec.

Poland has joined the league of Germany and Great Britain as the only countries to have produced multiple medalists for the distance of 800m in the history of Championships.

The European Athletics Championships which took place in Barcelona was the last competition which was organized in a 4-year cycle. The next Championships will be organized in Helsinki (Finland) in 2012, which will begin the new 2-year cycle.

Medal table (after 47 events)

1. Russia                     10 gold   6 silver    8 bronze   – total 24 medals,
2. France                     8 gold   6 silver    4 bronze   – total 18 medals,
3. Great Britain & NI       6 gold   7 silver    6 bronze   – total 19 medals,
4. Germany                  4 gold   6 silver    6 bronze   – total 16 medals,
5. Turkey                     3 gold   1 silver    0 bronze   – total   4 medals,
6. Spain                       2 gold   3 silver    3 bronze   – total   8 medals,
7. Ukraine                     2 gold   3 silver     1 bronze  – total   6 medals,
8. POLAND                       2 gold   2 silver     5 bronze – total 9 medals,
9. Belarus                     2 gold    1 silver     1 bronze  -  total  4 medals,
10. Croatia                     2 gold    0 silver     0 bronze  -  total 2 medals.

Altogether representatives of 27 countries have been given medals.

Gold medal winners represented 16 countries.