Pia Skrzyszowska

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Pia Skrzyszowska
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Pia Skrzyszowska in 2022
Personal information
Born (2001-04-20) 20 April 2001 (age 23)
Warsaw, Poland
Height1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight56 kg (123 lb)
Sport
Country Poland
Sport Athletics
Event 100 m hurdles
ClubAZS-AWF Warszawa (2019–)
OKS Skra Warszawa (–2018) [1]
Coached byJarosław Skrzyszowski (2019–)
Przemysław Radkiewicz (-2018)
Laurent Meuwly [2]
Achievements and titles
Personal bests

Pia Skrzyszowska (born 20 April 2001) [3] is a Polish athlete specialising in the sprint hurdles. She won gold medals in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2022 European Championships and 2021 European Under-23 Championships.

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Skrzyszowska was the 2019 European U20 Championship 100 m hurdles silver medallist. She is a three-time Polish national champion.

Career

Pia Skrzyszowska's mother, Jolanta Bartczak, is a former Olympic long jumper and 1988 European Indoor Championship bronze medallist. [4]

She won the silver medal in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2019 European Under-20 Championships held in Borås, Sweden, at the age of 18. [3]

Aged 19, she finished fifth in the 60 metres hurdles at the 2021 European Indoor Championships on home soil in Toruń. She won the gold medal in the 100 m hurdles at the European Under-23 Championships in Tallinn, Estonia that year. [3]

In 2022, Skrzyszowska became triple Polish national champion. [3] At the European Athletics Championships held in August in Munich, she claimed her first major senior title, with gold in the 100 m hurdles in a time of 12.53 seconds. [3] She added silver for the women's 4 × 100 m relay alongside Anna Kiełbasińska, Marika Popowicz-Drapała and Ewa Swoboda.

In her 2023 season's debut on 29 January, Skrzyszowska won the 60 m hurdles at the ISTAF Indoor Düsseldorf in Germany in a personal best of 7.84 seconds. [5] Just a few days later, she produced a world-leading 7.78 s at the Orlen Cup on home soil in Łódź to come within hundredth of a second of Polish record set by Zofia Bielczyk in 1980. [6] At the 2023 European Games Pia Skrzyszowska won the women’s 100 metres hurdles in Chorzów, in 12.77 seconds.

In 2024, she set her personal best of 12.37 seconds in La Chaux-de-Fonds. [7]

Achievements

Personal bests

International competitions

Representing Flag of Poland.svg  Poland
YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventTime
2017 Youth Olympic Festival Győr, Hungary 100 m hurdles
(76.2 cm)
DNF
6th 4 × 100 m relay 47.84
2018 European U18 Championships Győr, Hungary13th (sf) 100 m 11.94
8th 200 m 24.63
World U20 Championships Tampere, Finland5th 4 × 100 m relay 44.61 SB
Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires, Argentina6th 200 m 48.461
2019 European U20 Championships Borås, Sweden2nd 100 m hurdles 13.35
6th 4 × 100 m relay 44.72
2021 European Indoor Championships Toruń, Poland5th 60 m hurdles 7.95
World Relays Chorzów, Poland2nd 4 × 100 m relay 44.10
European Team Championships Super League Chorzów, Poland1st 100 m 11.25 EU23L
1st 100 m hurdles 12.99
European U23 Championships Tallinn, Estonia1st 100 m hurdles 12.77
Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan19th (sf) 100 m hurdles 12.89
10th (h) 4 × 100 m relay 43.09
2022 World Indoor Championships Belgrade, Serbia14th (sf) 60 m 7.17
World Championships Eugene, OR, United States10th (sf) 100 m hurdles 12.62
European Championships Munich, Germany1st 100 m hurdles 12.53
2nd 4 × 100 m relay 42.61 NR
2023 World Championships Budapest, Hungary 12th (sf) 100 m hurdles 12.71
5th 4 × 100 m relay 42.66
2024 World Indoor Championships Glasgow, United Kingdom 3rd 60 m hurdles 7.79
European Championships Rome, Italy 3rd 100 m hurdles 12.42 PB
Olympic Games Paris, France 9th (sf) 100 m hurdles 12.55

1Sum of two times

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