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'Absolutely no problem' - 50 years since Szewinska ran the first sub-50 400m
Irena Szewinska was an athlete for the ages: the Polish princess of the track, the epitome of grace, speed and power, with her majestic stride.
'The First Lady of Polish Sport', Poland’s president Andrzej Duda called her when she lost her long battle with cancer in 2018, aged 72.
It is 50 years since Szewinska became the first athlete – man or woman – to set world records at 100m, 200m and 400m. She remains the only one.
In securing this groundbreaking feat, on home ground at the Stadion RKS Skra in Warsaw on the evening of 22 June 1974, the leading lady of Polish sport compounded her place in track and field posterity as the first woman to run 400m inside 50 seconds.
Not that there were many present to witness the historic 49.9 seconds.
Looking at the fading black and white footage of the race in the Janusz Kusocinski Memorial, there appear to be more folk on the infield than sitting in the near-empty stands.
Janusz Szewinski had a prime view near the finish line. One of Poland’s leading sports photographers, he also happened to be Irena’s husband and coach.
Indeed, it was he who persuaded the 28-year-old veteran of three Olympics Games – with six
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Irena Szewińska
Irena Szewińska, néeKirszenstein (Polish pronunciation:[iˈrɛna ʂɛˈviɲska]; 24 May 1946 – 29 June 2018) was a Soviet-born Polish sprinter. She was born in Leningrad. She was Jewish.[1] She was the only athlete in history, male or female, to have held the world record in the 100m, the 200m and the 400m.[2] She won three gold medals at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, 1968 Olympics in Mexico City and at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. She also won two Olympic silver medals in 1964 and two Olympic bronze medals in 1968 and 1972.
Szewińska died at a military hospital in Warsaw on 29 June 2018 from endometrial cancer at the age of 72.[3][4]
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Personal Bests: Cardinal – 11.13 (1974); Cardinal – 22.21 (1974); Cardinal – 49.28 (1976); LJ – 6.67 (1968).
Results
| Games | Discipline (Sport) / Event | NOC / Team | Pos | Medal | As |
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| 1964 Summer Olympics | Athletics | POL | Irena Kirszenstein | ||
| 200 metres, Women(Olympic) | 2 | S
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