Ryszard Skowronek

Ryszard Skowronek ( born May 1, 1949 in Jelenia Góra ) is a former Polish athlete. The 1.83 m wide and its competition time 82 kg heavy Skowronek 1974 European Champion in the decathlon.

Skowronek occurred both at the European Championships 1971 in Helsinki as well as at the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972, finished the race but both times not. In 1973 he won with 7965 points at the Universiade in Moscow, he had 62 points ahead of the Olympic champion Mykola Avilov. In September 1973, the finale of the first European Cup the all-rounder was held in Bonn. In the individual competition, the Swede Lennart Hedmark won ahead of Frenchman Yves LeRoy. Skowronek was 7936 points with third parties, but gained together with Ryszard Katus and Tadeusz Janczenko the European Cup.

At the European Championships 1974 in Rome Skowronek succeeded his best decathlon. With Polish national record of 8207 points he won ahead of Yves Leroy with 8146 points and the young German Guido Kratschmer with 8132 points. Leonid also Lytwynenko from the Soviet Union remained in fourth place with 8122 points over the 8000 - point mark. Skowronek still stood after the first day behind Kratschmer and LeRoy at No. 3, especially 5.10 meters in the pole vault then helped him on the second day yet for the European championship record.

In the decathlon at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal as seven athletes remained above the 8,000 -point mark. Behind the world record of Bruce Jenner occupied Kratschmer and Avilov a medal. Skowronek was with 8113 points in fifth behind the Finn Raimo Pihl ​​.

Skowronek was in 1973, 1976 and 1977, Polish champion in the decathlon. He began his career at Amator Jelenia Gora, later he went to for Slask Wrocław, Wrocław AZS, AZS Slask Katowice and for AZS AWF Katowice.

Best Performance

  • Decathlon: 8207 points ( 8229 points after scoring valid since 1985 )

Individual performances in this competition: 10.97 sec - 7.49 m - 13.10 m - 1.95 m - 47.91 seconds - 14.79 seconds - 43.26 m - 5.10 m - 64.14 m - 4:30,9 min

1971 European Athletics Championships 1974 European Athletics Championships Hans-Heinrich Sievert Godtfred Holmvang Ignace Heinrich Werner von Moltke Joachim Kirst Aleksandr Grebenyuk Daley Thompson Christian Plaziat Alain Blondel Erki Nool Romain Barras
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