Wojciech Jan Buciarski (born 17 April 1950) is a retired Polish pole vaulter. He competed at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics and finished in tenth and fifth place, respectively. He won a silver medal at the

1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships The 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held in 1975 in Katowice, Poland. The track used for these championships was 160 metres long. A two-lap relay race was organised over an unusual distance of 320 metres for each leg. This was th ...

with a jump of 5.30 m; the same year he set his personal best at 5.50 m. Buciarski is the father of

Piotr Buciarski Piotr Buciarski (born 22 November 1975 in Warsaw, Poland) is a retired Danish pole vaulter of Polish descent. His personal best jump is 5.75 metres, achieved in April 2002 in Fort-de-France. This is the current national record. He represented Spar ...

, an Olympic pole vaulter competing for Denmark, and father-in-law of Rachel Yurkovich, an American javelin thrower. As of 2013 he was living in Denmark and coaching

Cathrine Larsåsen Cathrine Larsåsen (born 5 December 1986) is a Norway, Norwegian pole vaulter. She hails from Oslo and represents the club IL i BUL. She won the Norwegian championships ten times in a row between 2004 and 2013, although on the same result as Kat ...

, a Norwegian pole vaulter.

International competitions

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1950 births Living people Polish male pole vaulters Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Poland Athletes from Warsaw Legia Warsaw athletes Skra Warszawa athletes Polish Athletics Championships winners {{Poland-athletics-bio-stub