Rafał Omelko
Rafał Omelko (Polish pronunciation: [ˈrafaw ɔˈmɛlkɔ]; born 16 January 1989) is a retired Polish athlete who specialised in the 400 metres.[2] He won two medals in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the European Athletics Championships.
Career
Omelko finished fourth at the 2013 Summer Universiade and reached the semifinals at the 2014 World Indoor Championships. His personal bests in the event are 45.14 seconds outdoors (2016) and 46.08 indoors (2017). Omelko and his teammates qualified to the 4 × 400 metres relay final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Polish quartet of Karol Zalewski, Rafał Omelko, Łukasz Krawczuk, Jakub Krzewina broke the world indoor record in the men's 4x400m with a stunning finish to the final track event of the 2018 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham. Krzewina overtook the leaders from the beginning - Americans on the last straight and achieved the greatest success in their career.[3]
Competition record
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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2008 | World Junior Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 5th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:08.65 |
2010 | European Championships | Barcelona, Spain | 24th (h) | 400 m hurdles | 52.54 |
2011 | European U23 Championships | Ostrava, Czech Republic | 2nd† | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:05.96 (h)† |
2013 | European Indoor Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | – | 4 × 400 m relay | DQ |
Universiade | Kazan, Russia | 4th | 400 m | 45.69 | |
World Championships | Moscow, Russia | 7th (h) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:01.73 | |
2014 | World Indoor Championships | Sopot, Poland | 9th (sf) | 400 m | 46.94 |
4th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:04.39 | |||
IAAF World Relays | Nassau, Bahamas | 19th (h) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:05.16 | |
European Championships | Zürich, Switzerland | 21st (sf) | 400 m | 46.69 | |
3rd | 4 × 400 m relay | 2:59.85 | |||
2015 | European Indoor Championships | Prague, Czech Republic | 3rd | 400 m | 46.26 |
2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:02.97 | |||
IAAF World Relays | Nassau, Bahamas | 9th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:03.23 | |
Universiade | Gwangju, South Korea | 13th (sf) | 400 m | 46.62 | |
3rd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:07.77 | |||
World Championships | Beijing, China | 11th (h) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:00.72 | |
2016 | European Championships | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 6th | 400 m | 45.67 |
2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:01.18 | |||
Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 19th (sf) | 400 m | 45.28 | |
7th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:00.50 | |||
2017 | European Indoor Championships | Belgrade, Serbia | 2nd | 400 m | 46.08 PB |
1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:06.99 | |||
IAAF World Relays | Nassau, Bahamas | 9th (h) | 4 × 200 m relay | 1:24.78 | |
3rd (B) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:07.89 | |||
World Championships | London, United Kingdom | 18th (sf) | 400 m | 45.37 | |
7th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:01.59 | |||
Universiade | Taipei, Taiwan | 3rd | 400 m | 45.56 | |
– | 4 × 400 m relay | DNF | |||
2018 | World Indoor Championships | Birmingham, United Kingdom | 8th (sf) | 400 m | 46.39 |
1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:01.77 WIR | |||
European Championships | Berlin, Germany | 5th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:02.27 | |
2019 | European Indoor Championships | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 4th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:08.40 |
†: Competed only in heat.
References
- ↑ 2015 WSG profile
- ↑ {{World Athletics}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
- ↑ "Report: Men's 4X400m final – IAAF World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018". iaaf.org. IAAF. 4 March 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
External links
- Rafał Omelko at World Athletics
- Rafał Omelko at European Athletics
- Rafał Omelko at the Polski Związek Lekkiej Atletyki (in Polish)
- {{Olympedia}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
- Rafał Omelko at Olympics.com
- Rafał Omelko at the Polski Komitet Olimpijski (archive) (in Polish)
- PKOl profile using new ID in template
- 1989 births
- Living people
- Polish male sprinters
- Sportspeople from Wrocław
- Athletes from Lower Silesian Voivodeship
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Poland
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Poland
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Poland
- World Athletics Indoor Championships winners
- Competitors at the 2013 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade
- 21st-century Polish sportsmen