Adam Galant
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| Born | 23 January 1954[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Died | Or or before 1 December 2025 (aged 73) | ||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Poland | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 60 metres hurdles 110 metres hurdles | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | 60 m hurdles: 7.57 WR (1973) 110 m hurdles: 13.66 (1972) | ||||||||||||||
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Adam Galant (21 February 1952 – on or before 1 December 2025) was a Polish hurdler.[2] He won the silver medal in the 60 metres hurdles at the 1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships. On 25 February 1973, he ran 7.57 seconds over 60 m hurdles to win the Polish Indoor Athletics Championships, setting a world record over the distance.
Galant ran for the athletics section of the Górnik Wałbrzych club beginning in 1971.[3] He advanced past the heats of the 60 metres hurdles at the 1971 European Indoor Championships, but placed 4th in his semi-final and did make the finals.[2] Outdoors, he placed 5th at the 1971 Janusz Kusociński Memorial and 3rd at a later meeting in Warsaw over 110 m hurdles.[2]
Galant ran 13.6 seconds to place runner-up in his heat at the 1972 Polish Athletics Championships. In the finals, he tied Leszek Wodzyński for the win as both were assigned a time of 13.4 seconds, surpassing Marek Jóźwik's Polish national record.[4] At the 1972 Polish Olympic trials, Galant ultimately finished 4th and was not selected for the team.[5]
On 25 February 1973 at the Polish Indoor Athletics Championships, he won the 60 m hurdles in 7.57 seconds, setting a world record for automatic timing (superseding Ervin Hall and Günther Nickel's 7.6 hand-timed bests).[6][7] At the 1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships, Galant won his heat and semi-final to advance to the finals, where he ran 7.76 seconds behind only Frank Siebeck. Outdoors, he won the sprint hurdles at a race in Havana, Cuba in May 1973.[2] He got injured participating in the long jump at a league competition in Krakow, cutting his outdoor season short.[5]
Galant's 1974 season was hampered by injuries.[8] He did not record performances in 1975.[2]
In 1976, Galant reached the 60 m hurdles semi-finals at the 1976 European Indoor Championships but did not advance to the finals.[2] He retired in 1979.[5]
