Maria Piatkowska

Career

She was a three-time olympian (Helsinki 1952, Rome 1960 and Tokyo 1964) and participated in three different European Championships (1954 Bern, 1958 Stockholm and 1962 Belgrade). She is the wife of a fellow Polish Olympian, discus thrower Edmund Piątkowski. She was born in Goleni, Romania, now in Moldova.

Achievements

• She won three medals at two different European championships: bronze in 4 × 100 m relay in 1958 in Stockholm and gold in 4 × 100 m relay and bronze in 80 metre hurdles in 1962 in Belgrade.

Membership

She was a member of a world record-setting 4x100 metre relay team on 13 September 1964 in Łódź, Poland, with the time of 44.2 son