Pia Skrzyszowska

Pia Skrzyszowska
	Pia Skrzyszowska in 2022
Personal information
Born	20 April 2001 (age 23); Warsaw, Poland
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	56 kg (123 lb)
Sport
Country	Poland
Sport	Athletics
Event	100 m hurdles
Club	AZS-AWF Warszawa (2019–); OKS Skra Warszawa (–2018)
Coached by	Jarosław Skrzyszowski (2019–); Przemysław Radkiewicz (-2018); Laurent Meuwly
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	100 m hurdles: 12.37 (2024); 100 m: 11.12 (2024); Indoors; 60 m hurdles: 7.78 (2023); 60 m: 7.12 (2022);
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Poland
World Indoor Championships
World Relays
European Championships
European Games
European U23 Championships
European U20 Championships

Pia Skrzyszowska (born 20 April 2001)^[3] is a Polish athlete specialising in the sprint hurdles. She won gold medals in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2022 European Championships and 2021 European Under-23 Championships.

Skrzyszowska was the 2019 European U20 Championship 100 m hurdles silver medallist. She is a three-time Polish national champion.

Career

Pia Skrzyszowska's mother, Jolanta Bartczak, is a former Olympic long jumper and 1988 European Indoor Championship bronze medallist.^[4]

She won the silver medal in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2019 European Under-20 Championships held in Borås, Sweden, at the age of 18.^[3]

Aged 19, she finished fifth in the 60 metres hurdles at the 2021 European Indoor Championships on home soil in Toruń. She won the gold medal in the 100 m hurdles at the European Under-23 Championships in Tallinn, Estonia that year.^[3]

In 2022, Skrzyszowska became triple Polish national champion.^[3] At the European Athletics Championships held in August in Munich, she claimed her first major senior title, with gold in the 100 m hurdles in a time of 12.53 seconds.^[3] She added silver for the women's 4 × 100 m relay alongside Anna Kiełbasińska, Marika Popowicz-Drapała and Ewa Swoboda.

In her 2023 season's debut on 29 January, Skrzyszowska won the 60 m hurdles at the ISTAF Indoor Düsseldorf in Germany in a personal best of 7.84 seconds.^[5] Just a few days later, she produced a world-leading 7.78 s at the Orlen Cup on home soil in Łódź to come within hundredth of a second of Polish record set by Zofia Bielczyk in 1980.^[6] At the 2023 European Games Pia Skrzyszowska won the women’s 100 metres hurdles in Chorzów, in 12.77 seconds.

In 2024, she set her personal best of 12.37 seconds in La Chaux-de-Fonds.^[7]

Achievements

Personal bests

60 m hurdles – 7.78 (Łódź 2023)
60 metres indoor – 7.12 (Toruń 2022)

100 m hurdles – 12.37 (La Chaux-de-Fonds, 2024)
- 100 m hurdles (76.2 cm) – 13.35 (+1.2 m/s, Warsaw 2018) NU18R
100 metres – 11.12 (+1.4 m/s, Kalamata 2022)

International competitions

Representing Poland
Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Time
2017	Youth Olympic Festival	Győr, Hungary	–	100 m hurdles (76.2 cm)	DNF
2017	Youth Olympic Festival	Győr, Hungary	6th	4 × 100 m relay	47.84
2018	European U18 Championships	Győr, Hungary	13th (sf)	100 m	11.94
	European U18 Championships	Győr, Hungary	8th	200 m	24.63
	World U20 Championships	Tampere, Finland	5th	4 × 100 m relay	44.61 SB
	Youth Olympic Games	Buenos Aires, Argentina	6th	200 m	48.46¹
2019	European U20 Championships	Borås, Sweden	2nd	100 m hurdles	13.35
2019	European U20 Championships	Borås, Sweden	6th	4 × 100 m relay	44.72
2021	European Indoor Championships	Toruń, Poland	5th	60 m hurdles	7.95
	World Relays	Chorzów, Poland	2nd	4 × 100 m relay	44.10
	European Team Championships Super League	Chorzów, Poland	1st	100 m	11.25 EU23L
	European Team Championships Super League	Chorzów, Poland	1st	100 m hurdles	12.99
	European U23 Championships	Tallinn, Estonia	1st	100 m hurdles	12.77
	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	19th (sf)	100 m hurdles	12.89
	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	10th (h)	4 × 100 m relay	43.09
2022	World Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	14th (sf)	60 m	7.17
	World Championships	Eugene, OR, United States	10th (sf)	100 m hurdles	12.62
	European Championships	Munich, Germany	1st	100 m hurdles	12.53
	European Championships	Munich, Germany	2nd	4 × 100 m relay	42.61 NR
2023	World Championships	Budapest, Hungary	12th (sf)	100 m hurdles	12.71
2023	World Championships	Budapest, Hungary	5th	4 × 100 m relay	42.66
2024	World Indoor Championships	Glasgow, United Kingdom	3rd	60 m hurdles	7.79
	European Championships	Rome, Italy	3rd	100 m hurdles	12.42 PB
	Olympic Games	Paris, France	9th (sf)	100 m hurdles	12.55

¹Sum of two times

National titles

Polish Athletics Championships
- 100 metres hurdles: 2021, 2022
- 100 metres: 2021

References

^ PZLA profile
^ "Meuwly receives Coaching Achievement Award" (press release), World Athletics, 4 December 2023. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Pia SKRZYSZOWSKA – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
^ "Trening do kalos kagathos – rozmowa z Pią Skrzyszowską i Jarosławem Skrzyszowskim". bieganie.pl (in Polish). 9 December 2019. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
^ "Weekend roundup | Keely Hodgkinson scorches to a world best, Pia starts the season with European Lead". European Athletics. 30 January 2023. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
^ "Skrzyszowska improves to 7.78 as Jacobs opens season with 60m victory at Orlen Cup in Lodz". European Athletics. 4 February 2023. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
^ "Bol breaks European 400m hurdles record in La Chaux-de-Fonds". World Athletics. 14 July 2024. Retrieved 14 July 2024.

External links

Pia Skrzyszowska at World Athletics
Pia Skrzyszowska at European Athletics
Pia Skrzyszowska at Olympedia (archive)
Pia Skrzyszowska at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
Pia Skrzyszowska at Olympics.com
Pia Skrzyszowska at the Polski Komitet Olimpijski (in Polish)

[1] PZLA profile

[2] "Meuwly receives Coaching Achievement Award" (press release), World Athletics, 4 December 2023. Retrieved 9 May 2024.

[WAprofile-3] "Pia SKRZYSZOWSKA – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 January 2023.

[4] "Trening do kalos kagathos – rozmowa z Pią Skrzyszowską i Jarosławem Skrzyszowskim". bieganie.pl (in Polish). 9 December 2019. Retrieved 14 March 2021.

[5] "Weekend roundup | Keely Hodgkinson scorches to a world best, Pia starts the season with European Lead". European Athletics. 30 January 2023. Retrieved 30 January 2023.

[6] "Skrzyszowska improves to 7.78 as Jacobs opens season with 60m victory at Orlen Cup in Lodz". European Athletics. 4 February 2023. Retrieved 4 February 2023.

[auto3-7] "Bol breaks European 400m hurdles record in La Chaux-de-Fonds". World Athletics. 14 July 2024. Retrieved 14 July 2024.

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