He’s dead Edmund Piatkowski world record holder in the discus throw> – Sports Review

Former supporters of the queen sport gave Piatkowski pseudo “White Angel” – because of the color of the suit Legia Warszawa, in which usually performed at Memorial Kusocińskiego, then the meeting the best track and field in the world. Sam fondly remember little incident before the 51 years at the stadium of the capital AWF: when I knelt in blocks sprinting, passing by and for fun tossing your hard Piatkowski almost hit me in the head and sincerely apologized for it. Grow Rich there, get in the head of such a master that would be for me only honor!

When the day after the death of Edmund called his school friend, the famous anglicist prof. Jack Fisiak, former rector of the University. Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, the old man began to cry like a child – Mundek dead? This picture of health and physical fitness? It’s in my head does not fit – lamented Professor. – In primary school, now called primary in Konstantynow Lodz were closest companions in the years 1947-1949, and even sat on the same bench. Mundkowi was not easy, the native village had to walk every day to march seven kilometers to the school. Then he started teaching in secondary school, and I – using sports equipment scout team – founded school athletics section Włókniarz Konstantynów, which Mundek kidnapped us renowned Lodz Sports Club and trainer Witold Maciaszczyk. He in turn took a talented athlete and army Mundek went first to Slask Wroclaw and later to Legia Warsaw. At the end of his career he told me that the sport went down the wrong road and with the sport he does not want to have deal – says prof. Fisiak.

In fact, Piatkowski very quickly realized that his competitors from the German Democratic Republic and the United States apply pharmacological doping. For this reason, deeply disappointed – at the end athletics career – completely broke contact with the environment sports. Today, finally – the former record holder of the world can fully understand …

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EDMUND PIĄTKOWSKI (b. January 31, 1936 in Florentynowie k. Konstantynow Lodz, died March 28, 2016 in Warsaw). Graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics industry (SGH), a computer, a longtime researcher at the Military Technical Academy; husband of Mary Ilwickiej-Chojnacka (leading sprinters and gossips, Olympian), with whom had a son.

athlete Włókniarz Konstantynów, Slask Wroclaw and Legia Warszawa; Trainers: Witold Maciaszczyk, Witold Gerutto, Janusz Szulc. In the discus throw: world record holder (59.91 – Warsaw, 14.06.1959); three-time champion of Europe; 14krotny Polish record (from 50.93 in 1955 to 61.12 in 1967). The IO: Rome 1960 – 5; Tokyo 1964 – 7; Mexico 1968 – 7. ME – Stockholm 1958 – 1 .; Belgrade 1962 – 4; Budapest 1966 – 4; Athens 1969 – 12. In 1959, the winner of the Plebiscite “PS” at the Top 10 Athletes Polish.