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Konrad Bukowiecki (; born 17 March 1997) is a Polish athlete competing primarily in the shot put. He won the silver medal at the
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, gold medals at the
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and 2019 European Under-23 Championships, and gold at the 2017 European Indoor Championships. In 2014 at age 17, Bukowiecki was the World junior champion and, the following year, European junior champion; he was voted
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Male Rising Star of the Year that season. He is the Polish indoor record holder and a four-time national champion.


Personal life

Konrad Bukowiecki was born in Szczytno. His father, Ireneusz Bukowiecki, is a former decathlete.


Career

Bukowiecki is coached by his father. He won the gold medal at the 2014 World Junior Championships and at the
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. In addition, he currently holds the junior indoor world record with the 6 kg implement, as well as world youth indoor bests with the 6 kg and 5 kg implements. In his debut at the senior level competition, he finished sixth at the 2015 European Indoor Championships with the European absolute best with the 7.26 kg shot. Later that season he added the European Junior title to his accolades and competed at the 2015 World Championships where he, however, failed to record a valid mark. During the 2016 indoor season Bukowiecki further bettered his European junior best with the senior implement to 20.61 metres. He later finished fourth at the 2016 World Indoor Championships in Portland. He initially won at the
2016 World Junior Championships in Athletics The 2016 World U20 Championships in Athletics was an international athletics competition for athletes qualifying as juniors (born no earlier than 1 January 1997) which was held at Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium in Bydgoszcz, Poland on 19–24 Ju ...
, but was disqualified for an anti-doping offense. It was later proved he took the substance (
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) unknowingly in the form of a diet supplement with a "doping free" inscription on the label and the IAAF only punished him with a "public reprimand". At the
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in
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, Bukowiecki fouled out in the first three rounds of the final, failing to move into the final three rounds. In 2019, he set his personal best result by beating the 22 meters barrier and achieving 22.25 m during the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial held at the
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in Chorzów.


Achievements


International competitions

1No mark in the final


National titles

*
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: 2016, 2019 * Polish Indoor Athletics Championships: 2017, 2022


Personal bests

* Shot put – 22.25 ( Chorzów 2019) ** Shot put indoor – 22.00 (
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2018) * Shot put (6 kg) – 22.94 (
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2016) ** Shot put (6 kg) indoor – 22.96 (
Spała Spała is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Inowłódz, within Tomaszów Mazowiecki County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies on the Pilica River, approximately west of Inowłódz, east of Tomaszów Mazowiecki, an ...
2016) * Shot put (5 kg) – 23.17 (
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2014) ** Shot put (5 kg) indoor – 24.24 (
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2014) * Discus throw – 58.42 (
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2017) * Discus throw (1.75 kg) – 62.20 ( Białystok 2016) * Discus throw (1.5 kg) – 66.52 (
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Konrad Bukowiecki
at the ''Polski Związek Lekkiej Atletyki'' * * * 1997 births Living people Polish male shot putters Polish male discus throwers Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Poland Place of birth missing (living people) Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Poland People from Szczytno Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) European Athletics Rising Star of the Year winners Universiade silver medalists for Poland Universiade gold medalists in athletics (track and field) Youth Olympic gold medalists for Poland Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2019 Summer Universiade Youth Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics 20th-century Polish people 21st-century Polish people Doping cases in athletics {{Poland-athletics-bio-stub