Grzegorz Polkowski

Poland

Swimming

Biography

Impairment information

Type of Impairment

Vision impairment

Classification

S11, SB11, SM11

Further personal information

Residence

Warsaw, POL

Languages

Polish

Higher education

Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University: Warsaw, POL

Sport specific information

When and where did you begin this sport?

He began swimming in 1997.

Club / Team

IKS AWF Warsaw: Poland

Name of coach

Wojciech Seidel [national]

Coach from which country?

Poland

General interest

Other information

NATIONAL FIRST
The silver medal that he won at the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens was the first ever Paralympic medal won by a Polish visually impaired swimmer. (laski.edu.pl, 2013)

Results

		Unit	Date	Rank

IPC Swimming World Championships Eindhoven 2010 (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Event	Unit	Rank
Men's 50 m Freestyle S11	Final Round	7
Men's 100 m Backstroke S11	Heat 2	4
Men's 100 m Backstroke S11	Final Round	6
Men's 100 m Freestyle S11	Heat 3	3
Men's 100 m Freestyle S11	Final Round	4
Men's 50 m Freestyle S11	Heat 3	4

IPC Swimming World Championships Durban 2006 (Durban, South Africa)
Event	Unit	Rank
Men's 50 m Freestyle S11	Heats	1
Men's 4x100 m Medley 49 pts	Final Round	4
Men's 4x100 m Freestyle 49 pts	Final Round	5
Men's 100 m Freestyle S11	Final Round	1
Men's 100 m Freestyle S11	Heats	1
Men's 100 m Backstroke S11	Final Round	5
Men's 50 m Freestyle S11	Final Round	1

Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games (Beijing, China)
Event	Unit	Rank
Men's 50 m Freestyle S11	Heat 1	2
Men's 50 m Freestyle S11	Final Round	6
Men's 100 m Freestyle S11	Heat 3	2
Men's 100 m Freestyle S11	Final Round	3
Men's 400 m Freestyle S11	Heat 1	6
Men's 100 m Backstroke S11	Heat 1	5

Athens 2004 Paralympic Games (Athens, Greece)
Event	Unit	Rank
Men's 100 m Backstroke S11	Final Round	8
Men's 100 m Backstroke S11	Heat 1	4
Men's 400 m Freestyle S11	Final Round	5
Men's 400 m Freestyle S11	Heat 1	3
Men's 100 m Freestyle S11	Final Round	4
Men's 100 m Freestyle S11	Heat 1	1
Men's 50 m Freestyle S11	Final Round	2
Men's 50 m Freestyle S11	Heat 1	2

IPC Swimming World Championships Mar del Plata 2002 (Mar del Plata, Argentina)
Event	Unit	Rank
Men's 100 m Freestyle S11	Heats	7
Men's 50 m Freestyle S11	Final Round	2
Men's 50 m Freestyle S11	Heats	5
Men's 100 m Freestyle S11	Final Round	5
Men's 100 m Backstroke S11	Heats	3
Men's 4x100 m Medley 49 pts	Final Round	9999
Men's 100 m Backstroke S11	Final Round	4

Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games (Sydney, Australia)
Event	Unit	Rank
Men's 4x100 m Medley S11-13	Final Round	5
Men's 100 m Backstroke S11	Final Round	6
Men's 100 m Backstroke S11	Heat 2	4
Men's 100 m Freestyle S11	Heat 1	6
Men's 50 m Freestyle S11	Heat 3	4

London 2012 Paralympic Games (London, Great Britain)
Event	Unit	Date	Rank
Men's 100 m Freestyle S11	Final Round	2012-08-31	8
Men's 100 m Freestyle S11	Heat 1	2012-08-31	5
Men's 50 m Freestyle S11	Heat 2	2012-09-01	6
Men's 100 m Backstroke S11	Heat 2	2012-09-02	6