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Robert Korzeniowski
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| Medal record | |||
 Robert Korzeniowski |
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| Men’s Athletics | |||
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Competitor for  Poland |
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| Olympic Games | |||
| Gold | 1996 Atlanta | 50 km walk | |
| Gold | 2000 Sydney | 20 km walk | |
| Gold | 2000 Sydney | 50 km walk | |
| Gold | 2004 Athens | 50 km walk | |
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 1997 Athens | 50 km walk | |
| Gold | 2001 Edmonton | 50 km walk | |
| Gold | 2003 Paris | 50 km walk | |
| Bronze | 1995 Göthenburg | 50 km walk | |
Robert Korzeniowski (born July 30, 1968 in Lubaczów, Poland) is a former Polish racewalker. He has won four gold medals at the Summer Olympics and has won three world championships.
Korzeniowski is a three-peat winner of the 50 km walk at the Summer Olympics. He won 1996 in Atlanta, 2000 in Sydney, and 2004 in Athens. In addition, he became the first athlete to claim both the long distance and the short distance crown, when he won the 20 km title at the 2000 games. He won world championship titles in 1997, 2001, and 2003. He won two times a European Championship in Budapest 1998 and in Munich 2002. He is also the former world record holder in the 50 kilometers race.
He retired after the 2004 Games but is looking to become actively involved in various roles at the International Olympic Committee. Since 2005 he works for Polish Public Television as a chief of sport department and in 2007 he became a General Manager of TVP Sport, a new specialized channel in Poland. He created a new approach for sports in TV by eliminating live broadcast and focusing on history of sports and talk shows about sport.
After his retirement he took part in commercials and sporting events sponsored by the Polish virtual bank mBank.
- Official website (in Polish)
- IOC tribute
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| 1956: Leonid Spirin • 1960: Vladimir Golubnichy • 1964: Ken Matthews • 1968: Vladimir Golubnichy • 1972: Peter Frenkel • 1976: Daniel Bautista • 1980: Maurizio Damilano • 1984: Ernesto Canto • 1988: Jozef Pribilinec • 1992: Daniel Plaza • 1996: Jefferson Pérez • 2000: Robert Korzeniowski • 2004: Ivano Brugnetti |
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| 1932: Thomas Green • 1936: Harold Whitlock • 1948: John Ljunggren • 1952: Giuseppe Dordoni • 1956: Norman Read • 1960: Don Thompson • 1964: Abdon Pamich • 1968: Christoph Höhne • 1972: Bernd Kannenberg • 1976: not disputed • 1980: Hartwig Gauder • 1984: Raúl González • 1988: Vyacheslav Ivanenko • 1992: Andrey Perlov • 1996, 2000, 2004: Robert Korzeniowski |
| World champions in men's 50 km walk |
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| 1976: Veniamin Soldatenko | 1983: Ronald Weigel | 1987: Hartwig Gauder | 1991: Aleksandr Potashov | 1993: Jesús Ángel García | 1995: Valentin Kononen | 1997: Robert Korzeniowski | 1999: Ivano Brugnetti | 2001: Robert Korzeniowski | 2003: Robert Korzeniowski | 2005: Sergey Kirdyapkin | 2007: Nathan Deakes |
| Awards | ||
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| Preceded by Paweł Nastula |
Polish Sportspersonality of the Year 1998 |
Succeeded by Tomasz Gollob |
| Preceded by Tomasz Gollob |
Polish Sportspersonality of the Year 2000 |
Succeeded by Adam Małysz |
| Records | ||
Preceded by Valeriy Spitsyn |
Men's 50km Walk World Record Holder August 8, 2002 – December 2, 2006 |
Succeeded by Nathan Deakes |
Categories: 1968 births | Living people | Polish athletes | Polish racewalkers | Athletes at the 1992 Summer Olympics | Athletes at the 1996 Summer Olympics | Athletes at the 2000 Summer Olympics | Athletes at the 2004 Summer Olympics | World record holders | Olympic athletes of Poland | Olympic gold medalists for Poland | Former world record holders