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, at the European Championships, she set her personal best record by achieving 12.42 seconds in the final of the women's 100 hurdles. [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

1Sum of two times

National titles

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