Medal record
Men’s athletics
Competitor for  Poland
Olympic Games
Gold	2008 Beijing	Shot put
World Championships
Silver	2009 Berlin	Shot Put
World Indoor Championships
Bronze	2008 Valencia	Shot put
Bronze	2012 Istanbul	Shot put
European Championships
Silver	2010 Barcelona	Shot put
European Indoor Championships
Gold	2009 Torino	Shot put
Summer Universiade
Gold	2005 Izmir	Shot Put
IAAF World Athletics Final
Gold	2008 Stuttgart	Shot Put
Silver	2009 Thessaloniki	Shot Put
Continental Cup
Silver	2010 Split	Shot put

Tomasz Majewski (born 30 August 1981 in Nasielsk) is a Polish Olympic gold medalist shot putter. He is 204 cm (6' 8½") tall and weighs 140 kg (300 lb).

He threw 21.51 meters during the Olympic final on 15 August 2008. This earned him the gold medal, Poland's first Olympic medal in shot put since 1972 when the late Władysław Komar took the gold.^[1] Majewski is also the first Pole to win gold at the 2008 Olympics.

On 25 July 2009 in Barcelona he threw a personal best of 21.64 m and few days later in DN Galan in Stockholm, Sweden he improved upon this with a throw of 21.95 m, a new Polish record.^[2]

At the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships he threw a personal best and Polish indoor record of 21.20 m. However, the level of competition was so high that this was only enough for fifth place behind a Canadian record-breaking Dylan Armstrong. It was the first time in championships history that five men had gone beyond the 21 m mark.^[3]

In the outdoor season, Majewski competed at the 2010 European Athletics Championships and won the shot put silver medal. His 21-metre throw was beaten by a single centimetre as Andrei Mikhnevich took the title. He had shoulder surgery in the latter half of the year. Focusing on the 2011 season, he said that the strong form of his opponents was more of an inspiration than an obstacle: "Christian Cantwell and Reese Hoffa [both] went over 22 metres last year, the good performances of my rivals doesn’t make me angry or worried, instead it acts as the best sort of motivation to get up to their level".^[4]

At the 2011 European Team Championships he was the silver medallist behind David Storl and while his young German rival went on to win at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, Majewski managed only ninth place with a best throw of 20.18 m. At the start of 2012 he broke his own Polish indoor record at the BW-Bank Meeting in Karlsruhe with a winning mark of 21.27 m.^[5]

National honours[link]

For his sport achievements, he received:
Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (5th Class) in 2008.^[6]
Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (4th Class) in 2009.^[7]

Personal bests[link]

• Outdoor - 21.95 m (2009), national record
• Indoor - 21.72 m (2012), national record

His best attempt was in Sweden DN Galan (21.65 m, 21.95 m, 21.44 m, x, x, 21.83 m).

Achievements[link]

Majewski took gold in Turin in 2009

Putting at the 2010 Bislett Games

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing  Poland
2004	World Indoor Championships	Budapest, Hungary	4th	20.83 m
	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	18th (q)	19.55 m
2005	European Indoor Championships	Madrid, Spain	10th (q)	19.57 m
	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	9th	20.23 m
	Universiade	İzmir, Turkey	1st	20.60 m
2006	World Indoor Championships	Moscow, Russia	7th	20.07 m
	European Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	8th	19.85 m
	World Athletics Final	Stuttgart, Germany	7th	20.13 m
2007	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	5th	20.87 m
2008	World Indoor Championships	Valencia, Spain	3rd	20.93 m
	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	1st	21.51 m
	World Athletics Final	Stuttgart, Germany	1st	20.88 m
2009	European Indoor Championships	Turin, Italy	1st	21.02 m
	European Team Championships	Leiria, Portugal	1st	20.81 m
	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	2nd	21.91 m
	World Athletics Final	Thessaloniki, Greece	2nd	21.21 m
2010	World Indoor Championships	Doha, Qatar	5th	21.20 m (iNR)
	European Championships	Barcelona, Spain	2nd	21.00 m
2011	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	9th	20.18 m
2012	World Indoor Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	3rd	21.72 m (iNR)

Notes[link]

External links[link]

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