Dawid Wegner (born 23 April 2000) is a Polish track and field athlete who competes in the javelin. He competed at the 2024 Olympic Games and the 2023 and 2025 World Championships. He placed second at the 2026 Diamond League Final.
Early life From Nakło nad Notecią in the Kuyavian–Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Career He won the Polish U20 championships in the javelin and competed as a junior athlete at the 2017 IAAF World U18 Championships in Nairobi and the 2019 European Athletics U20 Championships in Borås. In 2021, he qualified for the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, where he finished fifth overall.
In May 2023, Wegner improved his personal best to 80.10m in Kielce. In June 2023, he threw a new personal best distance of 82.21 metres, in Gdańsk. In July 2023, he finished as runner-up in the Polish national championships. He was selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023, and threw 81.25 metres in the qualifying round to qualify for the final with the fourth best throw. In the final, he recorded a best throw of 80.75 metres to place ninth overall.
He was selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024 where he threw 79.35 metres to place thirteenth in qualifying and did not progress as one of the top twelfth to the final, missing out by one place and under a metre from German thrower Max Dehning. He competed in the javelin at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024, placing twenty sixth overall in the qualifying round with a throw of 76.89 metres, and did not proceed to the final.
Wegner threw a personal best 85.67 metres to qualify for the final at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, before throwing 83.03 metres to place ninth overall in the final.
On 15 August 2026, Wegner placed fourth at the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, England, finishing a centimetre behind Patriks Gailums of Latvia with a season's best throw of 82.96m. At the 2026 Diamond League Final in Brussels on 5 September, Wegner threw a personal best of 87.47 metres to place second behind Rumesh Tharanga.
International competitions Representing 2017World U18 ChampionshipsNairobi, Kenya4thJavelin throw (700g)70.56 m2019European U20 ChampionshipsBorås, Sweden13th (q)Javelin throw70.43 m2021European U23 ChampionshipsTallinn, Estonia5thJavelin throw77.17 m2023World ChampionshipsBudapest, Hungary9thJavelin throw80.75 m2024European ChampionshipsRome, Italy13th (q)Javelin throw79.35 mOlympic GamesParis, France26th (q)Javelin throw76.89 m2025World ChampionshipsTokyo, Japan9thJavelin throw83.03 m2026European ChampionshipsBirmingham, United Kingdom4thJavelin throw82.96 mWorld Ultimate ChampionshipBudapest, Hungary7thJavelin throw77.21 m
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