Birth Place: | Warsaw, Poland |
Height: | 1.8m (05.9feet) |
Weight: | 72kg (159lb) |
Sport: | Pole vault |
Club: | Skra Warszawa Legia Warsaw |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Wojciech Jan Buciarski (born 17 April 1950) is a retired Polish pole vaulter. He competed at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics and finished in tenth and fifth place, respectively. He won a silver medal at the 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships with a jump of 5.30 m; the same year he set his personal best at 5.50 m.
Buciarski is the father of Piotr Buciarski, an Olympic pole vaulter competing for Denmark, and father-in-law of Rachel Yurkovich, an American javelin thrower. As of 2013 he was living in Denmark and coaching Cathrine Larsåsen, a Norwegian pole vaulter.
Representing Poland | |||||
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1971 | Sofia, Bulgaria | 7th | 4.80 m | ||
Helsinki, Finland | 13th (q) | 4.90 m | |||
1972 | Munich, West Germany | 10th | 5.00 m | ||
1973 | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 10th | 4.80 m | ||
1974 | Gothenburg, Sweden | 4th | 5.20 m | ||
Rome, Italy | 4th | 5.30 m | |||
1975 | Katowice, Poland | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 5.30 m | |
1976 | Montreal, Canada | 5th | 5.45 m | ||
1979 | Vienna, Austria | 5th | 5.40 m |
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