Piotr Tarkowski (born 10 August 1999) is a Polish

long jumper The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

. He is a national champion both at the

Polish Indoor Athletics Championships The Polish Indoor Athletics Championships ( pl, Halowe mistrzostwa Polski seniorów w lekkoatletyce) is an annual indoor track and field competition organised by the Polish Athletic Association, which serves as the national championship for the spo ...

and

Polish Athletics Championships The Polish Athletics Championships ( pl, Mistrzostwa Polski seniorów w lekkoatletyce) is an annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Polish Athletic Association (PZLA), which serves as the Polish national championship for the sp ...

in the long jump.

Biography

Tarkowski is from

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where he competes representing the KS AZS-AWF club, coached by Tadeusz Makaruk. Tarkowski's first senior national medal came at the

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, where he won the silver on his last attempt. Rather than clapping as is custom for long jumpers, he asked the crowd to remain silent for his 6th and final jump, which he performed in a personal best of 7.80 metres. He was also the winner of the 2018 Polish U20 Championships held in

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, and the 2018 Indoor Polish U20 Championships held in Toruń. He qualified for and participated in the 2018 World Athletics U20 Championships, and twice at the European U23 Championships in 2019 and 2021. At the 66th

, he set a championship record with a result of 8.01 m to win the competition.

Statistics

Best performances

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tarkowski, Piotr Living people 1999 births Polish male long jumpers Polish male sprinters 21st-century Polish sportspeople OpenAI-written articles People from Biała Podlaska Sportspeople from Lublin Voivodeship