Marek Zakrzewski 2022 Euro Under 18 Champ & 2023 Euro Under 20 Champion 100 and 200 Meters/10.25 & 20.63

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For those of you that think a 6.61 when you are barely 18 isn't special, your wrong. Marek Z. is already the 19th fastest 60 meter
time ever run by any Under 20 Sprinter around the world. He is tied with Justin Gatlin at the same age. Faster than Trindon Holiday,
Cameron Burrell, Noah Lyles, Christophe Lemaitre, Ramil Guliyev and countless others. Mark Lewis Francis holds the world record
for the Under 20 60 Meters with a time of 6.51! So Marek Zakrzewski is only a tenth away with the rest of this indoors and all next
year in 2025 indoors to break the record. He just very well may do it! No one should doubt this kids ability!

Here is the All Time World Under 20 60 Meters LIst.

World Athletics | 60 Metres - men - u20 - all

worldathletics.org

 

[mastermulti]

His turnover must be really fast having such speed with those little legs - a la Trae Williams, quadrille

 

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Athletics World Relay Championships. Marek Zakrzewski in…

Athletics World Relay Championships. Marek Zakrzewski in the Polish national team
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Krzysztof Głowinkowski April 16, 2024, 9:56 am

The Polish Athletics Association has appointed the strongest squad for the world relay championships, which will be held in Nassau (May 4-5). Among those who will fly to the Bahamas are: Ewa Swoboda, Natalia Kaczmarek and Justyna Święta-Ersetic. At stake is advancement to the Olympic Games in Paris. Among those called up is AML Słupsk player Marek Zakrzewski.

The Polish team was missing two specialists in the 400 m run - Małgorzata Hołub-Kowalik, who is getting back into shape after a maternity break, and Anna Kiełbasińska, who is struggling with health problems.

- We treat the competition in the Bahamas as our priority. First, we fly to a two-week acclimatization training camp organized in Miami to properly prepare for the start in a different time zone and climatic conditions. The center we are going to looks impressive. I hope that good training and logistic conditions will contribute to success in Nassau and that all relay teams will be in the top "14", which will give them a pass to Paris," said the coach of the women's 4x400 m relay team, Aleksander Matusiński.

The trainer emphasized that for the first time in history the competition during the World Athletics Relays has such high stakes.

-In previous years, the competition in Nassau, and the World Athletics Relays in general, did not have as much importance for the relay teams as Olympic qualification. Then we started in them two days after the trip. Now the situation is completely different, he admitted.

In Nassau, the fourteen best teams in each event will qualify for the Olympics - 4x100 m for women and men, 4x400 m for women and men and the 4x400 m mixed relay, and the remaining two teams will be selected based on the World Athletics results list. Individually, from the white and red squad at the World Athletics Relays, only Kaczmarek in the 400 m and Swoboda in the 100 m have so far met the Olympic minimum.
The composition of the Polish national team for the World Relay Championships in Nassau

 

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Lets hope they do well, qualify and don't get injured...

 

[mastermulti]

that's an equal under20 world lead.
I noticed a Chinese lad, Keli Ceng, is only 1/100th behind him and a full 9 months younger. There's talent breaking through everywhere.

On a side note, the Polish under 20 4x100m record set August 2021 is the 4th fastest junior run All-Time. They could well take that time down further with Marek in the team.
Shaping up to be a great world juniors from 27th to 31st August in Lima, Peru

 

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Tommorow is the first big track meet in Poland. We will see both Marek Zakrzewski and Dominik Kopec in the 100 meters along with
many other polish sprinters. This is Marek Zakrzewski's first year competing as at the senior level yet he is still only 18 years of age.
My preditions for THE POLISH BULLET this summer are 10.15 to 10.19 over 100 meters and around the high 20.40's over the 200 meters.
He finally won't always be the best sprinter on the track which can either help or hurt him. This kid is built different and has the attitude,
confidence and swagger of a far older sprinter. He hates to lose so he will continue to rise his level and speed up in the coming years. I will go on record right now.

Marek Zakrzewski will go sub 10 wind legal within 3 to 4 years!

Here is the 100 meters for tommorow in Poland.

100 m M - Heat A	START: 2024-05-18 19:30

L	Bib		Athlete	Date Of Birth		Club/Country	PB	SB
1	194		KOMAŃSKI Albert	00-02-07		POLAND	10.34/23
2	289		ZAKRZEWSKI Marek	05-12-18		POLAND	10.25/23
3	18		STROMSIK Zdenek	94-11-25		CZECHIA	10.16/18	10.51
4	37		ERIUS Jeff	04-03-08		FRANCE	10.24/22	10.32
5	51		MITCHELL-BLAKE Nethaneel	94-04-02		GREAT BRITAIN	9.98/22	10.20
6	7		CISSE Arthur	96-12-29		IVORY COAST	9.93/19	10.48
7	196		KOPEĆ Dominik	95-03-05		POLAND	10.05/23
8	255		SŁOWIKOWSKI Przemysław	93-11-20		POLAND	10.19/20	10.68
9	272		WDOWIK Oliwer	02-01-03		POLAND	10.33/23