Pia Skrzyszowska

Pia Skrzyszowska

Pia Skrzyszowska in 2022
Personal information
Born	(2001-04-20) 20 April 2001 (age 24) Warsaw, Poland
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	56 kg (123 lb)
Sport
Country	Poland
Sport	Athletics
Event	100 m hurdles
Club	AZS-AWF Warszawa (2019–) OKS Skra Warszawa (–2018) [1]
Coached by	Jarosław Skrzyszowski (2019–) Przemysław Radkiewicz (-2018) Laurent Meuwly [2]
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	100 m hurdles : 12.37 (2024) 100 m : 11.12 (2024) Indoors 60 m hurdles : 7.74 (2025) NR 60 m : 7.12 (2022)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing   Poland World Indoor Championships 2024 Glasgow 60 m hurdles World Relays 2021 Chorzów 4 × 100 m relay European Championships 2022 Munich 100 m hurdles 2022 Munich 4 × 100 m relay 2024 Rome 100 m hurdles European Indoor Championships 2025 Apeldoorn 60 m hurdles European Games 2023 Kraków–Małopolska 100 m hurdles European U23 Championships 2021 Tallinn 100 m hurdles European U20 Championships 2019 Borås 100 m hurdles

Pia Skrzyszowska (born 20 April 2001) ^[3] is a Polish athlete specialising in the sprint hurdles. She is a European Championships gold and bronze medallist and European Games gold medallist in the 100 metres hurdles, World Indoor Championships and European Indoor Championships bronze medallist in the 60 m hurdles, and World Relays and European Championships silver medallist in the 4 × 100 m relay.

Skrzyszowska is also a European U23 Championships gold medallist and European U20 Championships silver medallist in the 100 m hurdles. She is a three-time Polish national champion and holds the national record in the 60 m hurdles. Skrzyszowska is a two-time Olympian and competed at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics.

Career

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

Skrzyszowska 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, Skrzyszowska won the women’s 100 metres hurdles in Chorzów, in 12.77 seconds.

In 2024, she set her personal best in the 100 m hurdles with a time of 12.37 seconds in La Chaux-de-Fonds. ^[7]

Achievements

Personal bests

• 60 m hurdles – 7.74 (Nanjing, 2025) NR
• 60 metres indoor – 7.12 (Toruń 2022)

• 100 m hurdles – 12.37 (La Chaux-de-Fonds, 2024)
  • 100 m hurdles (76.2 cm) – 13.35 (+1.2 m/s, Warsaw 2018) NU18R
• 100 metres – 11.12 (+1.4 m/s, Kalamata 2022)

International competitions

Representing   Poland

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Time
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, Hungary	13th (sf)	100 m	11.94
			8th	200 m	24.63
	World U20 Championships	Tampere, Finland	5th	4 × 100 m relay	44.61 SB
	Youth Olympic Games	Buenos Aires, Argentina	6th	200 m	48.461
2019	European U20 Championships	Borås, Sweden	2nd	100 m hurdles	13.35
			6th	4 × 100 m relay	44.72
2021	European Indoor Championships	Toruń, Poland	5th	60 m hurdles	7.95
	World Relays	Chorzów, Poland	2nd	4 × 100 m relay	44.10
	European Team Championships Super League	Chorzów, Poland	1st	100 m	11.25 EU23L
			1st	100 m hurdles	12.99
	European U23 Championships	Tallinn, Estonia	1st	100 m hurdles	12.77
	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	19th (sf)	100 m hurdles	12.89
			10th (h)	4 × 100 m relay	43.09
2022	World Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	14th (sf)	60 m	7.17
	World Championships	Eugene, OR, United States	10th (sf)	100 m hurdles	12.62
	European Championships	Munich, Germany	1st	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
2025	European Indoor Championships	Apeldoorn, Netherlands	3rd	60 m hurdles	7.83
	World Indoor Championships	Nanjing, China	4th	60 m hurdles	7.74 NR
	World Championships	Tokyo, Japan	5th	100 m hurdles	12.49
			8th (h)	4 × 100 m relay	42.832

¹Sum of two times
²Disqualified in the final

National titles

• Polish Athletics Championships
  • 100 metres hurdles: 2021, 2022
  • 100 metres: 2021

References

1. PZLA profile
2. "Meuwly receives Coaching Achievement Award" (press release), World Athletics , 4 December 2023. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
3. "Pia SKRZYSZOWSKA – Athlete Profile". World Athletics . Retrieved 1 January 2023.
4. "Trening do kalos kagathos – rozmowa z Pią Skrzyszowską i Jarosławem Skrzyszowskim". bieganie.pl (in Polish). 9 December 2019. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
5. "Weekend roundup | Keely Hodgkinson scorches to a world best, Pia starts the season with European Lead". European Athletics . 30 January 2023. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
6. "Skrzyszowska improves to 7.78 as Jacobs opens season with 60m victory at Orlen Cup in Lodz". European Athletics . 4 February 2023. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
7. "Bol breaks European 400m hurdles record in La Chaux-de-Fonds". World Athletics . 14 July 2024. Retrieved 14 July 2024.

External links

• Pia Skrzyszowska at World Athletics
• Pia Skrzyszowska at European Athletics
• Pia Skrzyszowska at Olympedia
• Pia Skrzyszowska at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
• Pia Skrzyszowska at Olympics.com
• Pia Skrzyszowska at the Polski Komitet Olimpijski (in Polish)