Jacek Wszoła
Jacek Wszola ( born December 30, 1956 in Warsaw ) is a former Polish high jumper and Olympic champion.
With 17 years Wszola approached at the European Championships 1974 in Rome. With 2.19 meters, he jumped in fifth as high as the third-ranked Vladimir Maly from Czechoslovakia.
Prior to the 1976 Olympics in Montreal was the American world record holder Dwight Stones, who had raised the world record to 2.31 m in June, as the clear favorite. But Stones difference in the Olympic final on July 31 at 2.21 m and only got bronze, second place went to Canadian Greg Joy with 2.23 m, and the only Wszola jumped over 2.25 m and thus won gold.
In the Indoor Athletics Championships 1977 in San Sebastián the flop Springer Wszola won with 2.25 m in front of the Straddlespringer Rolf Beilschmidt from the GDR with 2.22 m. A year later at the European Indoor Championships 1978 in Milan the new star Vladimir Jaschtschenko from the Soviet Union won with 2.35 m in front of Rolf Beilschmidt. Wszola was seventh at 2.21 m. At the European Championships in Prague Jaschtschenko won with 2.30 meters, 2.21 meters Wszola was sixth.
At the European Indoor Championships 1980 in Sindelfingen, the young German Dietmar Mögenburg won with 2.31 m in front Wszola and the Romanian Adrian Proteasa each with 2.29 m. On May 25, 1980 Wszola jumped at the International High Jump Meeting in Eberstadt at 2.35 m world record before Mögenburg who came to 2.29 m. The next day Mögenburg jumped in Rehlinger also 2.35 m. After Mögenburg and the other West German athletes like the Americans lacked precisely because of the Olympic boycott the Olympic Games in Moscow, was the world record holder Wszola as favorite. With 2.31 m but he only won the silver medal behind Gerd Wessig from the GDR, with 2.36 even declined him the world record.
Wszola also jumped in the 1980s. His last international Endkampfplatzierung was 11th place with 2.20 meters at the European Indoor Championships 1987 in Liévin. But on the high altitudes of 1980 he came no longer zoom.
A total of eleven Polish Champion title won Wszola: 1974-1980, 1982, 1984, 1985 and 1988.
Jacek Wszola is 1,94 m tall and weighed 79 kg in his playing days.