Tadeusz Rut
![]() Tadeusz Rut at the 1960 Olympics | ||||||||||||||||||
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Born | 11 October 1931 Przeworsk, Poland[1] | |||||||||||||||||
Died | 27 March 2002 (aged 70) Warsaw, Poland | |||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 90 kg (198 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Hammer throw, discus throw | |||||||||||||||||
Club | MKS Czarni (1949–1951) OWKS (1952–1953) Odry (1956–1957) Burzy Wrocław (1958) Legia Warszawa (1959–1967)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Sławomir Zieleniewski, Paweł Kozubek | |||||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | ||||||||||||||||||
Personal best(s) | HT – 67.07 m (1964) DT – 51.09 m (1959)[2] | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Tadeusz Rut (11 October 1931 – 27 March 2002) was a Polish athlete. He competed at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics in the hammer throw and won a bronze medal in 1960. In 1956 he also finished 17th in the discus throw and was selected as the Olympic flag bearer for Poland.[2] At the European championships he won a gold medal in 1958 setting a new continental record. That year he was ranked as the world's best hammer thrower.[1]
Rut was born in a family of a carpenter in Przeworsk, and completed his school studies in Wroclaw in 1950. In 1966 he received a master's degree in sanitation engineering. During his athletics career Rut won 8 national titles in the hammer throw (1955–1958, 1961, 1964, 1965) and discus throw (1956) and set 18 national records.[1]
References
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- ^ a b c d Tadeusz Rut. Polish Olympic Committee
- ^ a b Tadeusz Rut. sports-reference.com
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Preceded by Teodor Kocerka | Flagbearer for ![]() 1956 Melbourne | Succeeded by Teodor Kocerka |
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- 1934:
Ville Pörhölä (FIN)
- 1938:
Karl Hein (GER)
- 1946:
Bo Ericson (SWE)
- 1950:
Sverre Strandli (NOR)
- 1954:
Mikhail Krivonosov (URS)
- 1958:
Tadeusz Rut (POL)
- 1962:
Gyula Zsivótzky (HUN)
- 1966:
Romuald Klim (URS)
- 1969:
Anatoliy Bondarchuk (URS)
- 1971:
Uwe Beyer (FRG)
- 1974:
Aleksey Spiridonov (URS)
- 1978:
Yuriy Sedykh (URS)
- 1982:
Yuriy Sedykh (URS)
- 1986:
Yuriy Sedykh (URS)
- 1990:
Igor Astapkovich (URS)
- 1994:
Vasiliy Sidorenko (RUS)
- 1998:
Tibor Gécsek (HUN)
- 2002:
Adrián Annus (HUN)
- 2006:
Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (FIN)
- 2010:
Libor Charfreitag (SVK)
- 2012:
Krisztián Pars (HUN)
- 2014:
Krisztián Pars (HUN)
- 2016:
Paweł Fajdek (POL)
- 2018:
Wojciech Nowicki (POL)
- 2022:
Wojciech Nowicki (POL)
- 2024:
Wojciech Nowicki (POL)
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