Elżbieta Krzesińska

Elżbieta Krzesińska ( born November 11, 1934 as Elżbieta Duńska in Warsaw ) is a former Polish track and field athlete.

She was in the 1950s in the long jump successfully, as they jumped a world record in international competitions and one gold, two silver and one bronze medal, won three gold medals at the College World Championships. She started for the following clubs: Spójnia Gdańsk (1949-1956), LKS Sopot (1957-1960), SLA Sopot - Spójnia Gdańsk (1961-1963) and Skry Warszawa ( 1964-1965 ). She was trained by Andrzej Krzesiński, whom she married in 1955. She is 1,70 m tall and weighed 62 kg in their active time.

Life

Krzesińska grew up in Elbing, where she attended the Kazimierz Jagiellon - school and secondary school. She then studied at the Medical Academy of Gdansk, which she completed in 1963. In 1968 she acquired after a correspondence course at the University of Poznan her trainer's license.

From 1952 to 1963, she was 25 times in the Polish national team and scored a total of 30 starts 14 individual victories. In 1956 she was elected to the Polish athlete of the year. In 1989, she participated as a 55 -year-old participated in the Senior World Championships in Eugene (USA) and won the long jump with the age-group world record of 6.00 m the gold medal.

By profession she is a dentist. Her husband Andrzej works as a trainer. The couple has a daughter ( Elżbieta, by profession an engineer ), and two grandchildren ( Elżbieta and Andrzej ). The family now lives in Eugene, Oregon (USA).

She wrote an autobiography entitled " Zamiatane warkoczem " (Eng.: From plait blurred ). The title refers to a curiosity that she than 17 years experienced in their Olympic debut: The Finnish referee did not measure their jump at the footprint, but the imprint of her long braid, which makes them about lost half a meter and only Twelfth was.

Services

Olympic games

European Championships

World Student Championships and Universiade

Participation in 1951, 1954, 1955, 1959 and 1961

National Championships

• Long Jump: 1952, 1953, 1954, 1957, 1959, 1962, 1963
• 80 m hurdles: 1957
• Pentathlon: 1953, 1962

Records

• World Records: 6.35 m, achieved on 20 August in Budapest and on 27 November 1956 in Melbourne

• Long Jump: 4 Records, Best Performance 6,35 m
• 80 m hurdles: 2 Records, Best Performance 11.0 seconds, running on 1 July 1961 in Poznań
• High Jump: 1 record - 1,625 m, jumped on August 28, 1955 in Olecko
• Pentathlon: 3 Records