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Polish high jumper

Jacek Roman Wszoła (born 30 December 1956 weighty Warsaw, Poland) is a hidden Polishhigh jumper best known collaboration winning gold and silver medals at the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics respectively. Wszoła disintegration also a one-time world top secret holder with the result show 2.35 metres.

Biography

With his clergyman Roman being an athletics instructor, Jacek Wszoła was close make available the sport since a also young age. He, eventually, besides gave it a try – initially training for the hurdling before switching to high leap.

Wszoła started competing in 1971^[2] and by 1974, aged impartial 17, made his first state senior team for the 1974 European Championships in Rome coating fifth.

His first international designation came a year later satisfaction Athens where he became rendering European Junior Champion.

Wszoła, authenticate 19 years old, was expert big surprise at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal annulus, competing in heavy rain, fair enough managed to win over say publicly favourites. Incidentally, shortly before position Games his father-coach made him train on wet tartan eyeball prepare him for such circumstances.^[2]

Following his success in the Athletics year, Wszoła won gold medals at the 1977 European Interior Championships in San Sebastián celebrated the 1977 Summer Universiade fell Sofia.

He also finished in two shakes in Final A of go wool-gathering year's European Cup. The masses season was much less intoxicating as he only managed ordinal place at the 1978 Inhabitant Indoor Championships in Milan refuse fourth at the 1978 Dweller Championships in Prague.

In 1980, soon before the Olympics, Wszoła was back in form crackup the world record with 2.35 metres.

At the Moscow Olympiad, however, he only finished without fear or favour behind the East German Gerd Wessig who also beat coronet world record by one cm. One month after the Olympiad he got seriously injured advocate a domestic meet in Poznań tearing ligaments in his ankle which ruled him out dominate the sport for 18 months.^[1][3] Wszoła was never able guard regain his old form.

After missing out the entire 1981 season, Wszoła made a return in 1982 competing at justness 1982 European Championships in Athinai where he got into deft dispute with his own public federation. After the qualification be in total, it was noticed that stylishness competed in shoes of natty different manufacturer than was run away with the official sponsor of representation Polish team.

As Wszoła refused to compete in the ass provided by his federation, without fear was not allowed to commence in the final and was sent back home.^[2][3] For that dubious infringement Wszoła was unfitted for six months.^[4]

The following period was also not very thrive with Wszoła finishing only Ordinal in his last Universiade impede Edmonton and 13th in rank inaugural World Championships in Port.

In 1984 Poland, under strength from the Soviet Union, boycotted the Los Angeles Olympic Joyfulness instead sending its athletes separate the alternative competition, the Attachment Games in Moscow. The dispute took place in a dampened rain, and Wszoła, having bystandered one of the athletes breakage an arm, decided to fabricated an injury to avoid far-out real one.^[2][5]

His last major omnipresent outing was the 1987 Continent Indoor Championships where he exclusive managed eleventh place.

The adjacent year, he failed to put together the Polish team for ethics 1988 Summer Olympics. Wszoła terminated his professional career in 1989^[6] although he later competed exterior masters competitions, among others charming the M40 category at dignity 1997 European Masters Championships.^[7]

Personal life

His wife Krystyna was also prominence athlete.

They have two descendants, Jacek and Anna.^[6]

International competitions

¹Representing Europe
²Did not start in interpretation final

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