Robert Korzeniowski, 36, left his rivals far behind in men’s 50 km walk, winning the fourth golden Olympic medal in his career. He is the only Polish athlete in history, who won four golden Olympic medals.
Korzeniowski walked the distance of 50 km for 3:38.46, and finished the race four minutes ahead of silver medalist Denis Nizhegrodov from Russia (3:42:50). Another Russian athlete - Aleksey Voyevodin was third with result of 3:43:34.
Other two Poles reached the finish line on sixth (Roman Magdziarczyk - 3:48.11) and seventh position (Grzegorz Sudol - 3:49.09). This is a great success of Polish athletes.
Winning gold in Athens, Robert Korzeniowski repeated his success form Atlanta (1996), when he was first in men’s 50 km walk, and Sydney (2000), when who got two golden medals - one in 20 km walk one in 50 km walk.
Korzeniowski’s medal is the ninth medal won by Poles in Athens 2004 – including three golden ones (Otylia Jedrzejczak – swimming, women’s 200 m butterfly, Robert Sycz and Tomasz Kucharski – rowing, Robert Korzeniowski – men’s 50 km walks), 2 silver and 4 bronze.
2010, Domains
