Teresa Barbara Ciepły (''née'' Wieczorek; 19 October 1937 – 8 March 2006) was a Polish sprinter and hurdler. She was a bronze Olympic medalist in the 4×100 metre

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at the

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. Two years later she won gold medals in the 4 × 100 m relay (in European record time of 44.5

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s) and the 80 m hurdles, and a bronze medal in the 100 m sprint at the 1962 European Championships. The same year she was chosen as the

Polish Sportspersonality of the year The Polish Sports Personality of the Year (Polish: ''Plebiscyt Przeglądu Sportowego na najlepszego polskiego sportowca roku'') is chosen annually since 1926 by the readers of the newspaper ''Przegląd Sportowy'', which makes it the second oldest s ...

. At the 1964 Olympics she won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay, in a world record time of 43.6 seconds, and a silver in the 80 m hurdles. Nationally Ciepły won the Polish titles in the 80 m hurdles (1961–62, 1964–1965) and in the 100 m sprint (1960–1962). Shortly after the 1960 Olympics she married

Olgierd Ciepły Olgierd Ciepły (28 March 1936 – 5 January 2007) was a Polish athlete. He competed in the men's hammer throw at the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of ...

, an Olympic

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er. In retirement Ciepły worked as a clerk and an athletics coach in

Bydgoszcz Bydgoszcz ( , , ; german: Bromberg) is a city in northern Poland, straddling the meeting of the River Vistula with its left-bank tributary, the Brda. With a city population of 339,053 as of December 2021 and an urban agglomeration with more ...

. After her death, a secondary school there was named in her honor.

References

External links

Teresa Ciepły at http://www.sporting-heroes.net

A full listing of the women's medals won at the 1962 European Championship

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