Pia Skrzyszowska
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 Pia Skrzyszowska in 2022 | |
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| Born | 20 April 2001 Warsaw, Poland |
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) |
| Weight | 56 kg (123 lb) |
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| Country | Poland |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event | 100 m hurdles |
| Club | AZS-AWF Warszawa (2019–) OKS Skra Warszawa (–2018)[1] |
| Coached by | Jarosław Skrzyszowski (2019–) Przemysław Radkiewicz (-2018) Laurent Meuwly[2] |
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Pia Skrzyszowska (born 20 April 2001)[3] is a Polish athlete specialising in the sprint hurdles. She is a European Championships gold and bronze medallist and European Games gold medallist in the 100 metres hurdles, World Indoor Championships and European Indoor Championships bronze medallist in the 60 m hurdles, and World Relays and European Championships silver medallist in the 4 × 100 m relay.
Skrzyszowska is also a European U23 Championships gold medallist and European U20 Championships silver medallist in the 100 m hurdles. She is a three-time Polish national champion and holds the national record in the 60 m hurdles. Skrzyszowska is a two-time Olympian and competed at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics.[4]
Skrzyszowska's mother, Jolanta Bartczak, is a former Olympic long jumper and 1988 European Indoor Championship bronze medallist.[5]
Skrzyszowska 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.[6] 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.[7] At the 2023 European Games, Skrzyszowska won the women’s 100 metres hurdles in Chorzów, in 12.77 seconds.
In 2024, she set her personal best in the 100 m hurdles with a time of 12.37 seconds in La Chaux-de-Fonds.[8]
