Łukasz Krawczuk (Polish pronunciation: ; born 15 June 1989) is a Polish sprinter specialising in the 400 metres. He has won two medals in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the European Athletics Championships.
Career Krawczuk represented his country in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2013 World Championships, as well as two indoor World Championships in 2012 and 2014. He won the bronze medal with the Polish relay team at the 2014 European Championships and silver at the 2015 European Indoor Championships.
His personal bests in the event are 45.65 seconds outdoors (Szczecin 2014) and 46.31 seconds indoors (Prague 2015).
Krawczuk and his teammates qualified to the 4 × 400 metres relay final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The Polish quartet of Karol Zalewski, Rafał Omelko, Łukasz Krawczuk, Jakub Krzewina broke the world indoor record in the men's 4 × 400 m with a stunning finish to the final track event of the 2018 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham. Krzewina overtook the leaders from the beginning - Americans on the last straight and achieved the greatest success in their career.
Competition record Representing 2009European U23 ChampionshipsKaunas, Lithuania1st (h)4 × 400 m relay3:07.132011European Indoor ChampionshipsParis, France5th4 × 400 m relay3:09.31European U23 ChampionshipsOstrava, Czech Republic13th (h)400 m47.262nd4 × 400 m relay3:03.622012World Indoor ChampionshipsIstanbul, Turkey6th4 × 400 m relay3:11.862013World ChampionshipsMoscow, Russia7th (h)4 × 400 m relay3:01.732014World Indoor ChampionshipsSopot, Poland4th (h)4 × 400 m relay3:06.50IAAF World RelaysNassau, Bahamas19th (h)4 × 400 m relay3:05.16European ChampionshipsZürich, Switzerland16th (sf)400 m46.243rd4 × 400 m relay2:59.852015European Indoor ChampionshipsPrague, Czech Republic4th400 m46.312nd4 × 400 m relay3:02.97IAAF World RelaysNassau, Bahamas11th (h)4 × 400 m relay3:05.134thDistance medley relay9:24.07World ChampionshipsBeijing, China11th (h)4 × 400 m relay3:00.722016European ChampionshipsAmsterdam, Netherlands12th (sf)400 m45.862nd4 × 400 m relay3:01.18Olympic GamesRio de Janeiro, Brazil7th4 × 400 m relay3:00.502017European Indoor ChampionshipsBelgrade, Serbia 1st4 × 400 m relay3:06.99IAAF World RelaysNassau, Bahamas3rd (B)4 × 400 m relay3:07.89World ChampionshipsLondon, United Kingdom7th4 × 400 m relay3:01.592018World Indoor ChampionshipsBirmingham, United Kingdom1st4 × 400 m relay3:01.77 WIREuropean ChampionshipsBerlin, Germany20th (sf)400 m45.785th4 × 400 m relay3:02.27
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