Pia Skrzyszowska
 Pia Skrzyszowska in 2022 | |
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| Born | 20 April 2001 Warsaw, Poland |
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) |
| Weight | 56 kg (123 lb) |
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| Country | Poland |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | 100 m hurdles |
| Club | AZS-AWF Warszawa (2019–) OKS Skra Warszawa (–2018)[1] |
| Coached by | Jarosław Skrzyszowski (2019–) Przemysław Radkiewicz (-2018) Laurent Meuwly[2] |
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Pia Skrzyszowska (born 20 April 2001)[3] is a Polish athlete specialising in the sprint hurdles. She won gold medals in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2022 European Championships and 2021 European Under-23 Championships.
Skrzyszowska was the 2019 European U20 Championship 100 m hurdles silver medallist. She is a three-time Polish national champion.
Career
Pia Skrzyszowska's mother, Jolanta Bartczak, is a former Olympic long jumper and 1988 European Indoor Championship bronze medallist.[4]
She won the silver medal in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2019 European Under-20 Championships held in Borås, Sweden, at the age of 18.[3]
Aged 19, she finished fifth in the 60 metres hurdles at the 2021 European Indoor Championships on home soil in Toruń. She won the gold medal in the 100 m hurdles at the European Under-23 Championships in Tallinn, Estonia that year.[3]
In 2022, Skrzyszowska became triple Polish national champion.[3] At the European Athletics Championships held in August in Munich, she claimed her first major senior title, with gold in the 100 m hurdles in a time of 12.53 seconds.[3] She added silver for the women's 4 × 100 m relay alongside Anna Kiełbasińska, Marika Popowicz-Drapała and Ewa Swoboda.
In her 2023 season's debut on 29 January, Skrzyszowska won the 60 m hurdles at the ISTAF Indoor Düsseldorf in Germany in a personal best of 7.84 seconds.[5] Just a few days later, she produced a world-leading 7.78 s at the Orlen Cup on home soil in Łódź to come within hundredth of a second of Polish record set by Zofia Bielczyk in 1980.[6] At the 2023 European Games Pia Skrzyszowska won the women’s 100 metres hurdles in Chorzów, in 12.77 seconds.
In 2024, she set her personal best of 12.37 seconds in La Chaux-de-Fonds.[7]
Achievements
Personal bests
- 60 m hurdles – 7.78 (Łódź 2023)
- 60 metres indoor – 7.12 (Toruń 2022)
- 100 m hurdles – 12.37 (La Chaux-de-Fonds, 2024)
- 100 metres – 11.12 (+1.4 m/s, Kalamata 2022)
International competitions
1Sum of two times
National titles
- Polish Athletics Championships
- 100 metres hurdles: 2021, 2022
- 100 metres: 2021
References
- ^ PZLA profile
- ^ "Meuwly receives Coaching Achievement Award" (press release), World Athletics, 4 December 2023. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
- ^ a b c d e "Pia SKRZYSZOWSKA – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
- ^ "Trening do kalos kagathos – rozmowa z Pią Skrzyszowską i Jarosławem Skrzyszowskim". bieganie.pl (in Polish). 9 December 2019. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
- ^ "Weekend roundup | Keely Hodgkinson scorches to a world best, Pia starts the season with European Lead". European Athletics. 30 January 2023. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
- ^ "Skrzyszowska improves to 7.78 as Jacobs opens season with 60m victory at Orlen Cup in Lodz". European Athletics. 4 February 2023. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
- ^ "Bol breaks European 400m hurdles record in La Chaux-de-Fonds". World Athletics. 14 July 2024. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
External links
- Pia Skrzyszowska at World Athletics
- Pia Skrzyszowska at European Athletics
- Pia Skrzyszowska at Olympedia (archive)
- Pia Skrzyszowska at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
- Pia Skrzyszowska at Olympics.com
- Pia Skrzyszowska at the Polski Komitet Olimpijski (in Polish)
European Athletics Championships champions in women's sprint hurdles | |
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| 80 m hurdles (1938–66) |
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| 100 m hurdles (since 1969) |
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European Athletics U23 Championships champions in women's 100 metres hurdles | |
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