Edmund PiÄ…tkowski
Edmund Piątkowski ( born January 31, 1936 in Konstantynów Łódzki ) is a former Polish discus thrower, the 1958 European champion and in 1959 a world record.
The Polish throwers were very successful at the European Championships 1958 in Stockholm. In the hammer throw won Tadeusz Rut, in the javelin won Janusz sídlo, and in the discus throw was surprisingly won by the young Pole Edmund Piątkowski. With 53.92 meters he had ten centimeters ahead of the Bulgarian Todor Artarski and 18 inches ahead of the Russians Vladimir Trussenjow.
On June 14, 1959 Piątkowski threw the Kusocinski Memorial in Warsaw with 59.91 meters world record and improved the six -year-old mark of Fortune Gordien by 63 centimeters. He won the competition with more than five meters ahead of Manfred Grieser from the GDR.
In the Olympic year Piątkowski was unable to match the shape of the previous year. At the Olympic Games in Rome, he finished with 55.12 meters only the fifth place, while the Americans Rink Babka, who had set the world record shortly before the games, after all, was second. Both are thus one of the five current world record holders, who were beaten by Al Oerter in his four Olympic victories.
On August 11, 1961 Jay Silvester threw 60.56 meters with the first man to discus about 60 meters. Only five days later threw Piątkowski in Lodz with 60.47 meters European record, and thus finished second in the annual global leaderboard in 1961. In September 1962 at the European Championships 1962 in Belgrade won Trussenjow, who had meanwhile replaced Piątkowski as a European record, before Kees Cook from the Netherlands. Piątkowski had with 55.13 meters 34 centimeters in fourth place behind the bronze medal by Lothar Milde from the GDR.
At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 was Piątkowski seventh with 55.81 meters. In 1966 he improved his Polish record of 61.06 meters in 1961. At the European Championships in Budapest in 1966, he was nevertheless again in fourth place with 56.76 meters. The three winning pitcher from East Germany Detlef Thorith, Hartmut Losch and Lothar Milde were between 66 and four inches in front of him.
1967 threw Piątkowski with 61.12 meters width the best of his career. At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, he took four years ago in seventh place, this time with the length of 59.40 meters. 1969 at the European Championships in Athens, he was charged with 53.64 meters twelfth.
Edmund Piątkowski is 1,82 m tall and weighed 95 kg in his playing days.