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Polish sprinter (1946–2014)
Jan Werner (25 July 1946 – 21 September 2014) was a Polish
sprinter who specialized in the
200 and
400 metres .
He was born in
Brzeziny and represented the club
AZS Warszawa .
[1] At the
1966 European Championships he finished fourth in the 200 metres and won the 4 x 400 metres relay together with
Edmund Borowski ,
Stanislaw Gredzinski and
Andrzej Badeński .
[2]
[3] At the
1967 European Indoor Games he competed in the relay final, but the team did not finish,
[4] and at the
1968 European Indoor Games he won a gold medal in the relay.
[5]
His first Olympic Games were in 1968. He finished fifth in his semi-final heat in the
400 metres , barely missing out on the final.
[1] In the
4 x 400 metres relay he finished fourth together with Stanislaw Gredzinski,
Jan Balachowski and Andrzej Badeński.
[6] With the same team members he finished fourth in the relay at the
1969 European Championships .
[7] In the individual distance he won the gold medal.
[8] At the
1969 European Indoor Games he won the 400 metres silver medal behind Balachowski,
[9] as well as a relay gold medal.
[10]
At the
1970 European Indoor Championships the Polish relay team won silver medals.
[11] At the
1971 European Indoor Championships he won a gold medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay together with
Waldemar Korycki , Andrzej Badeński and Jan Balachowski.
[12] With the same team members he won a silver medal in the relay at the
1971 European Championships .
[13] He won a bronze medal in the individual distance.
[8] The same team won the relay at the
1972 European Indoor Championships .
[14]
At the 1972 Olympic Games he reached the semi-final in the
400 metres and finished fifth in the
relay . At the 1976 Olympic Games he finished eighth in the
400 metres and won a silver medal in the
relay , together with
Ryszard Podlas ,
Zbigniew Jaremski and
Jerzy Pietrzyk .
[1]
He became Polish 200 metres champion in 1967, 1969 and 1971 and 400 metres champion in 1968, 1970, 1971 and 1976.
[15] His personal best time in the 400 metres was 45.44 seconds, achieved in 1976.
[1] He did also equal the
European record in the 200 metres with 20.4 seconds on 3 June 1967.
Died 21 September 2014 in Warsaw.
References
1934 :
Germany (
Hamann ,
Scheele ,
Voigt ,
Metzner )
1938 :
Germany (
Blazejezak ,
Bues ,
Linnhoff ,
Harbig )
1946 :
France (
Santona ,
Cros ,
Chef d'Hôtel ,
Lunis )
1950 :
Great Britain (
Pike ,
Lewis ,
Scott ,
Pugh )
1954 :
France (
Haarhoff ,
Degats ,
Martin-du-Gard ,
Goudeau )
1958 :
Great Britain (
Sampson ,
MacIsaac ,
Wrighton ,
Salisbury )
1962 :
West Germany (
Kindermann ,
Schmitt ,
Reske ,
Kinder )
1966 :
Poland (
Werner ,
Borowski ,
Grędziński ,
Badeński )
1969 :
France (
Bertould ,
Nicolau ,
Carette ,
Nallet )
1971 :
West Germany (
Schlöske ,
Jordan ,
Jellinghaus ,
Köhler )
1974 :
Great Britain (
Cohen ,
Hartley ,
Pascoe ,
Jenkins )
1978 :
West Germany (
Weppler ,
Hofmeister ,
Herrmann ,
Schmid )
1982 :
West Germany (
Skamrahl ,
Schmid ,
Giessing ,
Weber )
1986 :
Great Britain (
Redmond ,
Akabusi ,
Whittle ,
Black )
1990 :
Great Britain (
Sanders ,
Akabusi ,
Regis ,
Black )
1994 :
Great Britain (
McKenzie ,
Black ,
Whittle ,
Ladejo )
1998 :
Great Britain (
Hylton ,
Baulch ,
Thomas ,
Richardson )
2002 :
Great Britain (
Deacon ,
Elias ,
Baulch ,
Caines )
2006 :
France (
Djhone ,
M'Barke ,
Keïta ,
Raquil )
2010 :
Russia (
Dyldin ,
Aksyonov ,
Krasnov ,
Trenikhin )
2012 :
Belgium (
Gillet ,
J. Borlée ,
Bouckaert ,
K. Borlée )
2014 :
Great Britain (
Rooney ,
Bingham ,
Williams ,
Hudson-Smith )
2016 :
Belgium (
Watrin ,
J. Borlée ,
D. Borlée ,
K. Borlée )
2018 :
Belgium (
D. Borlée ,
J. Borlée ,
J. Sacoor ,
K. Borlée )
2022 :
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Hudson-Smith ,
Dobson ,
Davey ,
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1959:
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Giannone ,
Mazza ,
Berruti )
1961:
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Ozolin ,
Bartenev ,
Chistyakov )
1963:
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Rábai ,
Gyulai ,
Mihályfi )
1965:
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Metz ,
Felsen ,
Sundermann )
1967:
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Preatoni ,
Roscio ,
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1970:
Poland (
Wagner ,
Werner ,
Gramse ,
Nowosz )
1973:
United States (
Brown ,
Riddick ,
Whatley ,
Gilbreath )
1975:
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Zhidkikh ,
Silovs ,
Kolesnikov ,
Vladimirtsev )
1977:
Soviet Union (
Kolesnikov ,
Aksinin ,
Silovs ,
Ignatenko )
1979:
Italy (
Caravani ,
Grazioli ,
Lazzer ,
Mennea )
1981:
United States (
Lattany ,
Ketchum ,
Grimes ,
Smith )
1983:
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Scott ,
Graddy ,
Robinson ,
Gault )
1985:
Cuba (
Querol ,
Simón ,
Chacón ,
Peñalver )
1987:
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McRae ,
Heard ,
Daniel ,
Spearmon )
1989:
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Watkins ,
Dees ,
Cason ,
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1991:
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Goins ,
Bates ,
Trapp )
1993:
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Jefferson )
1995:
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1997:
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Carter ,
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1999:
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Trammell ,
Miller ,
Capel )
2001:
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2003:
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2005:
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Rocco ,
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2007:
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2009:
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Smirnov ,
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2011:
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Sefanyetso ,
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2013:
Ukraine (
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Smelyk ,
Bodrov ,
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2015:
Japan (
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2017:
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Tanaka ,
Tada ,
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2019:
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Miyamoto ,
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Yamashita ,
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2021:
China (
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Chen Guanfeng ,
Yan Haibin ,
Deng Zhijian )