Paweł Wojciechowski (pole vaulter)

Paweł Wojciechowski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈpavɛw vɔjt͡ɕɛˈxɔfskʲi]; born 6 June 1989) is a Polish pole vaulter. He won the gold medal at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics.

Career

Wojciechowski's first major success was the silver medal at the IAAF 12th World Junior Championships in Athletics held in July 2008 in Bydgoszcz, with the result 5.40 m (17 ft 8+1⁄2 in), being until then his personal best. He is an athlete of the Zawisza Bydgoszcz club. His coach is Roman Dakiniewicz.

In March 2009 it was announced, that Wojciechowski would be admitted to take practices in May 2009 with Vitaly Petrov, the pole vault coach of Sergey Bubka and Yelena Isinbayeva. He improved his best mark to 5.86 m at the Flanders Indoor Meeting in February 2011 to break Mirosław Chmara's Polish indoor record, which had stood for 22 years.

Wojciechowski was the surprise winner at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, but he fared less well at the 2012 Summer Olympics, failing to record a mark in qualifying. He missed the 2013 season due to injury and did not defend his world title as a result. In 2014 he returned to form at the Orléans leg of the Perche Elite Tour, winning with a clearance of 5.76 m (18 ft 10+3⁄4 in) (his best since 2011). In 2015, he cleared 5.85 m to win bronze at the World Championships.

In 2017, he improved his personal best to 5.93 m.

Achievements

Personal bests

Outdoor

• 5.93 m (Lausanne 2017) NR

Indoor

• 5.90 m (Glasgow 2019)

References

External links

• Paweł Wojciechowski at World Athletics
• Paweł Wojciechowski at European Athletics
• Paweł Wojciechowski at the Polski Związek Lekkiej Atletyki (in Polish)
• Paweł Wojciechowski at Olympedia
• Paweł Wojciechowski at Olympics.com
• Paweł Wojciechowski at Olympic.org (archived)
• Paweł Wojciechowski at the Polski Komitet Olimpijski (archive) (in Polish)