Andrzej Sontag (born 26 April 1952) is a retired

triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

er from

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

. He was born in

Lublin Lublin is the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the center of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin is the largest Polish city east of t ...

and represented the club AZS Lublin.Sports Reference
/ref> He won a bronze medal at the 1974 European Championships, and finished eighth at the 1976 European Indoor Championships. He competed at the 1976 Olympic Games without reaching the final. He became Polish indoor champion in 1976. His personal best jump was 16.96 metres, achieved in 1975. He is now Director of the

Łódź Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of canti ...

Region for the Polish

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1952 births Living people Sportspeople from Lublin Polish male triple jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Poland Polish civil servants European Athletics Championships medalists {{Poland-athletics-bio-stub