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Elżbieta Krzesińska

1934 - 2015

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Elżbieta Maria Krzesińska (née Duńska; November 11, 1934 – December 29, 2015) was a track and field athlete from Poland, who competed in the long jump. Born in Warsaw, she competed for her native country at the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia where she won the gold medal in the Women's Long Jump. She returned to the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome but failed to defend her title, finishing second behind Soviet Vera Krepkina. She won the Polish championships in Long Jump (1952, 1953, 1954, 1957, 1959, 1962, 1963), 80m Hurdles (1957), and Pentathlon (1953, 1962). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elżbieta Krzesińska is the 364th most popular athlete (up from 520th in 2019), the 761st most popular biography from Poland (up from 944th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Polish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Elżbieta Krzesińska ranks 364 out of 6,025. Before her are Balbir Singh Sr., Harry Kerr, Helen Stephens, Oscar Goßler, Ted Meredith, and Arne Åhman. After her are Albert Tyler, Charles Gmelin, Earl Thomson, Edward Lindberg, Anni Steuer, and Joseph Benz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Elżbieta Krzesińska ranks 253. Before her are Anne Haney, Mikel Laboa, Hendrick Chin A Sen, Kir Bulychev, Abdullah Ibrahim, and Rodri. After her are Ludvig Faddeev, Phạm Minh Mẫn, Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Lew Hoad, Sven-Bertil Taube, and Boris Volynov. Among people deceased in 2015, Elżbieta Krzesińska ranks 200. Before her are Hans Erni, Bernard Maris, Gerald Götting, Roddy Piper, Søren Kam, and Karl Josef Becker. After her are Angelo Anquilletti, Veijo Meri, Daevid Allen, Guy Béart, Evelyn Furtsch, and Tignous.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Elżbieta Krzesińska ranks 761 out of 1,694. Before her are Jędrzej Śniadecki (1768), Bartholomaeus Pitiscus (1561), Carl Schuricht (1880), Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen (1769), Anna Langfus (1920), and Juliusz Kossak (1824). After her are Simonas Daukantas (1793), Katja Ebstein (1945), Bernhard Lichtenberg (1875), Johann Christian Günther (1695), Wojciech Has (1925), and Stanisław Szukalski (1893).

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Among ATHLETES In Poland

Among athletes born in Poland, Elżbieta Krzesińska ranks 9. Before her are Myer Prinstein (1878), Hans Woellke (1911), Ewa Kłobukowska (1946), Janusz Kusociński (1907), Ursula Happe (1926), and Józef Szmidt (1935). After her are Gerhard Stöck (1911), Walter Bathe (1892), Teresa Ciepły (1937), Stanisław Kowalski (1910), Kazimierz Barburski (1942), and Zbigniew Pietrzykowski (1934).

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