Robert Korzeniowski

Robert Korzeniowski

Robert Korzeniowski ( born July 30, 1968 in Lubaczów ) is a Polish -goers. He is a four -time Olympic champion, three-time world champion and two-time European champion. Thus he is the most successful skiers ever.

Career

At the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, he won gold over 50 km of walking and at the Games in Sydney 2000 Gold 20 - km walk and 50 km walking. He is thus the first man who won the Go at the same Olympic Games, both over the short and the long distance. In Athens in 2004, he again won over 50 km and is thus the first of the series triumphed three times in this discipline.

He also became world champion over 50 km Walk 1997 in Athens, in 2001 in Edmonton and 2003 in Paris. In the 2003 World Cup, he walked the 50 km world record time of 3:36:03 h This time was undercut by 16 seconds on 2 December 2006 by the Australian Nathan Deakes in Geelong. 1998 in Budapest and in Munich in 2002 he also became European champion in each case.

Since 1992 Korzeniowski has lived in France since he finds there due to climate better training conditions. The graduate sports teacher is married and speaks fluent French, Russian, English and Spanish.

Korzeniowski is considered next to the ski jumper Adam Malysz as the most popular athletes of Poland and internationally as the most successful skiers of all time. After the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens Korzeniowski finished his active career and tried to henceforth as an international official in the popularization of this fringe sport. He also began training in France his youngest sister Sylwia Korzeniowska.