During the Polish Junior Athletics Championships, held in Biała Podlaska from June 28 to 30, MKS Bolesłavia finished ninth in Poland in the team standings (among 177 clubs classified), earning 75 points in the Children and Youth Sports System.
Head and shoulders above the rest was Polish national team representative Ewa Ochocka. She won the gold medal in the 100-meter hurdles with a personal best of 14.15 s. She also finished fourth in the 400-meter hurdles (61.15 s).
Wojciech Karaban took third place in the 3,000-meter steeplechase (9:18.73).
Kacper Olszewski finished ninth in the shot put (16.15 m – 6 kg) and fifth in the discus throw (51.64 m – 1.75 kg). In the hammer throw, Dawid Kopała (61.31 m – 6 kg) finished fifth, breaking his personal best, while his teammate Wojciech Kutryba finished twentieth (42.74 m).
Paweł Jóźwiak finished eleventh in the long jump, setting a personal best in qualifying (6.77 m), and ninth in the triple jump (13.73 m).
In the 10,000-meter race walk, Grzegorz Oślak finished tenth with a time of 51:17.02. In the long jump, Damian Gradzik placed fifteenth with a result of 6.47 m. Meanwhile, Monika Chmielik finished sixteenth in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 15.79 s. And Mateusz Kopeć finished nineteenth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase (10:13.09).
The athletes are coached by Małgorzata Markowska, Rafał Gruman, Ryszard Posacki, Paweł Wiśniewski, Dariusz Łomański and Tomasz Markowski.
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