Marian Woronin

Marian Jerzy Woronin (born 13 August 1956 in Grodzisk Mazowiecki) is a retired Polish athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. He is a four-time European Indoor Champion in the 60 metres. He won nine Polish outdoor titles, and nine indoor titles.

Marian Woronin

Marian Woronin 2012.
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Poland
Event1st2nd3rd
Olympic Games010
World Championships000
World Indoor Championships000
European Indoor Championships500
World Cup102
European Cup311
Total1023
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1980 Moscow4x100 m relay
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 1978 Prague4×100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place 1982 Athens100 m
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 1979 Vienna60 m
Gold medal – first place 1980 Sindelfingen60 m
Gold medal – first place 1981 Grenoble50 m
Gold medal – first place 1982 Milan60 m
Gold medal – first place 1987 Liévin60 m
European Cup
Gold medal – first place 1979 Turin4x100 m relay
Gold medal – first place 1981 Zurich4×100 m relay
Gold medal – first place 1985 Moscow100 m
Silver medal – second place 1979 Turin100 m
Bronze medal – third place 1979 Turin200 m
Representing Europe
World Cup
Gold medal – first place1981 Rome4x100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place1979 Montreal4x100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place1979 Montreal100 m

Career

His first major medal came at the 1978 European Athletics Championships, where he anchored the Polish 4×100 metres relay team of Zenon Nowosz, Zenon Licznerski and Leszek Dunecki to the gold medal in the event. He won the bronze in the 100 m at the 1979 IAAF World Cup, running for Europe.

He competed for Poland in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Soviet Union in the 100 and 200 he reached both finals finishing seventh in both sprints. In the 4×100 metres relay he won the silver medal with his teammates Krzysztof Zwoliński, Licznerski and Dunecki.

In 1981 he ran with the Polish/Europe sprint relay team that won the gold at the 1981 IAAF World Cup in Rome. He won a bronze in the 100 metres at the 1982 European Athletics Championships.

His fastest time for the 100 m was 10.00 seconds, recorded in 1984 in Warsaw with wind on the maximum allowable limit of 2.0 m/s. This was the European record for the event until Linford Christie ran 9.97 sec at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Although Woronin's official timing read as 10.00 seconds, this was rounded up from 9.992 seconds – so this represents the first time that a Caucasian (and a European) broke the 10-second barrier in this event, albeit unofficially.[1]

Woronin's personal best in the 200 m was 20.49.

International competitions

Representing  Poland & Europe
YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventResultNotes
1974European ChampionshipsRome, Italy19th (h)100 m10.77
25th (h)200 m21.60
1975European Indoor ChampionshipsKatowice, Poland4th60 m6.76
European Junior ChampionshipsAthens, Greece3rd100 m10.55
6th200 m21.65
4th4 × 100 m40.57
1976Olympic GamesMontreal, Canada16th (sf)100 m10.69
29th (h)200 m21.90
4th4 × 100 m38.83
1977European Indoor ChampionshipsSan Sebastián, Spain3rd60 m6.67
1978European Indoor ChampionshipsMilan, Italy4th60 m6.75
European ChampionshipsPrague, Czechoslovakia9th (sf)100 m10.54
1st4 × 100 m38.58
1979European Indoor ChampionshipsVienna, Austria1st60 m6.57
World CupMontreal, Canada3rd100 m10.28Europe
3rd4 × 100 m38.85Europe
1980European Indoor ChampionshipsSindelfingen, West Germany1st60 m6.62
Olympic GamesMoscow, Soviet Union7th100 m10.46
7th200 m20.81
2nd4 × 100 m38.33
1981European Indoor ChampionshipsGrenoble, France1st50 m5.65
World CupRome, Italy1st4 × 100 m38.73Europe
1982European Indoor ChampionshipsMilan, Italy1st60 m6.61
European ChampionshipsAthens, Greece3rd100 m10.28
5th4 × 100 m39.00
1983World ChampionshipsHelsinki, Finland31st (qf)100 m10.72
6th4 × 100 m38.72
1984Friendship GamesMoscow, Soviet Union16th (h)100 m10.66
3rd4 × 100 m38.81
1985World CupCanberra, Australia7th100 m10.45Europe
1986European ChampionshipsStuttgart, West Germany100 mDNF
1987European Indoor ChampionshipsLiévin, France1st60 m6.51

References

Records
Preceded by European Record Holder Men's 100 m
9 June 1984 - 23 September 1988
Succeeded by