Piotr Lisek

Piotr Lisek

180px Lisek in 2015
Personal information
Nationality	Polish
Born	(1992-08-16) 16 August 1992
Height	1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	94 kg (207 lb) (2015)
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Event(s)	Pole vault
Club	OSOT Szczecin
Coached by	Vyacheslav Kalinichenko
Medal record World Championships 2015 Beijing Pole vault World Indoor Championships 2016 Portland Pole vault European Indoor Championships 2015 Prague Pole vault

Piotr Lisek (born 16 August 1992) is a Polish athlete specialising in the pole vault. He won bronze medals at the 2015 World Championships and 2016 World Indoor Championships.

His personal bests in the event are 5.82 metres outdoors (Prague 2014) and 5.90 metres indoors (Bad Oeynhausen 2015). The latter is the current national record.

Biography

He began his career as a high jumper, before switching to pole vault, having decided he is too short for that event. He is coached by Vyacheslav Kalinichenko, who also trained Monika Pyrek, one of the most successful Polish female pole vaulters.

At the 2012 Polish Championships, he tested positive for an illegal substance, methylhexanamine, and was banned for 6 months. The athlete claimed he took the substance unknowingly in an energy drink and even listed it with the supplements he was using before the anti-doping control, which contributed to the reduced period of suspension.

Lisek's international debut was at the 2013 European Indoor Championships where he did not go through the qualifying round. Also at the 2013 European U23 Championships, he did not manage to reach the final. His big breakthrough came in 2014, when he jumped 5.77 metres in the indoor season. However, despite regularly jumping over 5.75 metres, he did not make the team for the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships, which took place in Poland, after no marking at the national championships. He had more success in the outdoor season, jumping 5.82 metres and finishing sixth at the 2014 European Championships. 2015 proved to be even more successful for the Polish vaulter with a new national indoor record of 5.90 metres and the bronze at the 2015 European Indoor Championships, his first international medal.

Competition record

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing Poland
2013	European Indoor Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	12th (q)	5.50 m
	European U23 Championships	Tampere, Finland	17th (q)	5.20 m
2014	European Championships	Zürich, Switzerland	6th	5.65 m
2015	European Indoor Championships	Prague, Czech Republic	3rd	5.85 m
	World Championships	Beijing, China	3rd	5.80 m
2016	World Indoor Championships	Portland, Oregon	3rd	5.75 m