Polish sprinterOlympic Games 1980 Moscow4x100 m relayEuropean Championships 1978 Prague4×100 m relay 1982 Athens100 mEuropean Indoor Championships 1979 Vienna60 m 1980 Sindelfingen60 m 1981 Grenoble50 m 1982 Milan60 m 1987 Liévin60 mEuropean Cup 1979 Turin4x100 m relay 1981 Zurich4×100 m relay 1985 Moscow100 m 1979 Turin100 m 1979 Turin200 mRepresenting EuropeWorld Cup1981 Rome4x100 m relay1979 Montreal4x100 m relay1979 Montreal100 m

Marian Jerzy Woronin (born 13 August 1956 in Grodzisk Mazowiecki) is a retired Polish athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. He is a four-time European Indoor Champion in the 60 metres. He won nine Polish outdoor *les, and nine indoor *les.

His first major medal came at the 1978 European Athletics Championships, where he anc*d the Polish 4×100 metres relay team of Zenon Nowosz, Zenon Licznerski and Leszek Dunecki to the gold medal in the event. He won the bronze in the 100:m at the 1979 IAAF World Cup, running for Europe.

He competed for Poland in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Soviet Union in the 100 and 200 he reached both finals finishing seventh in both sprints. In the 4×100 metres relay he won the silver medal with his teammates Krzysztof Zwoliński, Licznerski and Dunecki.

In 1981 he ran with the Polish/Europe sprint relay team that won the gold at the 1981 IAAF World Cup in Rome. He won a bronze in the 100 metres at the 1982 European Athletics Championships.

His fastest time for the 100:m was 10.00:seconds, recorded in 1984 in Warsaw with wind on the maximum allowable limit of 2.0:m/s. This was the European record for the event until Linford Christie ran 9.97:sec at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Although Woronin's official timing read as 10.00:seconds, this was rounded up from 9.992 seconds – so this represents the first time that a Caucasian (and a European) broke the 10-second barrier in this event, albeit unofficially. He is one of only ten individuals not of West African descent to run 100 metres in 10.00:s or less – the others being Koji Ito of *an (10.00 in 1998), Australian Patrick Johnson (9.93 in 2003), Namibian Frankie Fredericks (9.95 in 1991), Zimbabwean Ngonidzashe Makusha (9.97 in 2011) Frenchman Christophe Lemaitre (9.92 in 2011), who is the first person of European descent to officially break the barrier, Zhang Peimeng (10.00 in 2013) and Su Bingtian (9.99 in 2015), both of China, British Adam Gemili of Iranian and Moroccan descent (9.97 in 2015) and American John Teeters (10.00 in 2016).

Woronin's personal best in the 200 m was 20.49.

Compe*ion record

1Representing Europe

References

External links

• Marian Woronin at World Athletics
• Marian Woronin runs in 1985 on YouTube