Sport Athletics Weight 90 kg Height 1.83 m | Role Olympic athlete Name Tadeusz Rut Coached by Slawomir Zieleniewski | |
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Born 11 October 1931 Przeworsk, Poland Event(s) Hammer throw, discus throw Club MKS Czarni (1949–1951)
OWKS (1952–1953)
Odry (1956–1957)
Burzy Wroclaw (1958)
Legia Warszawa (1959–1967) Personal best(s) HT – 67.07 m (1964)
DT – 51.09 m (1959) Died March 27, 2002, Warsaw, Poland Olympic medals Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw People also search for Vasily Rudenkov, Gyula Zsivotzky, Muhammad Iqbal | ||
Tadeusz Rut (11 October 1931 – 27 March 2002) was a Polish athlete. He competed at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics in the hammer throw and won a bronze medal in 1960. In 1956 he also finished 17th in the discus throw and was selected as the Olympic flag bearer for Poland. At the European championships he won a gold medal in 1958 setting a new continental record. That year he was ranked as the world's best hammer thrower.
Rut was born in a family of a carpenter in Przeworsk, and completed his school studies in Wroclaw in 1950. In 1966 he received a master's degree in sanitation engineering. During his athletics career Rut won 8 national titles in the hammer throw (1955–1958, 1961, 1964, 1965) and discus throw (1956) and set 18 national records.