Łukasz Krawczuk (Polish pronunciation: ; born 15 June 1989) is a Polish sprinter specialising in the

400 metres The 400 metres, or 400-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 for men and since 1964 for women. On a standard outdoor running track, it is ...

. He has won two medals in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the

European Athletics Championships The European Athletics Championships is a biennial (from 2010) athletics event organised by the European Athletic Association and is recognised as the elite continental outdoor athletics championships for Europe. Editions First held, for me ...

Career

Krawczuk represented his country in the

4 × 400 metres relay The 4 × 400 metres relay or long relay is an athletics track and field, track event in which teams consist of four runners who each complete 400 metres or one lap, totaling 1600 meters. It is traditionally the final event of ...

at the 2013 World Championships, as well as two indoor World Championships in 2012 and 2014. He won the bronze medal with the Polish relay team at the 2014 European Championships and silver at the 2015 European Indoor Championships. His personal bests in the event are 45.65 seconds outdoors (Szczecin 2014) and 46.31 seconds indoors (Prague 2015). Krawczuk and his teammates qualified to the

final at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

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, Brazil. The Polish quartet of

Karol Zalewski Karol Zalewski (Polish pronunciation: ; born 7 August 1993) is a Polish athlete who specialises in the sprinting events. He reached the semifinals of the 2013 World Championships in the 200 metres. He is also the 2013 European U23 champion o ...

Rafał Omelko Rafał Omelko (Polish pronunciation: ; born 16 January 1989) is a retired Polish athlete who specialised in the 400 metres. He won two medals in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the European Athletics Championships. Career Omelko finished fourth at ...

, Łukasz Krawczuk,

Jakub Krzewina Jakub Krzewina (Polish pronunciation: ; born 10 October 1989) is a Polish track and field Sprint (running), sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres. A frequent competitor for Poland in the 4 × 400 metres relay, he has won two medals at the Eur ...

broke the world indoor record in the men's 4 × 400 m with a stunning finish to the final track event of the 2018 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham. Krzewina overtook the leaders from the beginning - Americans on the last straight and achieved the greatest success in their career.

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Łukasz Krawczuk
at the ''Polski Związek Lekkiej Atletyki'' * * * 1989 births Living people Polish male sprinters Olympic athletes for Poland Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Poland World Athletics Indoor Championships winners European Athletics Championships medalists People from Kłodzko 21st-century Polish sportsmen Athletes from Lower Silesian Voivodeship {{Poland-sprint-athletics-bio-stub