Tadeusz Rut

Polish athlete (1931–2002)

Tadeusz Rut

Tadeusz Rut at the 1960 Olympics

Personal information

Born

11 October 1931
Przeworsk, Poland^[1]

Died

27 March 2002 (aged 70)
Warsaw, Poland

Height

1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)

Weight

90 kg (198 lb)

Sport

Athletics

Event(s)

Hammer throw, discus throw

Club

MKS Czarni (1949–1951)
OWKS (1952–1953)
Odry (1956–1957)
Burzy Wrocław (1958)
Legia Warsaw (1959–1967)^[1]

Coached by

Sławomir Zieleniewski, Paweł Kozubek

Achievements and titles

Personal best(s)

HT – 67.07 m (1964)
DT – 51.09 m (1959)^[2]

Medal record

Representing Poland
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place	1960 Rome	Hammer throw
European Athletics Championships
Gold medal – first place	1958 Stockholm	Hammer throw

Tadeusz Rut (11 October 1931 – 27 March 2002) was a Polish athlete. He competed at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics in the hammer throw and won a bronze medal in 1960. In 1956 he also finished 17th in the discus throw and was selected as the Olympic flag bearer for Poland.^[2] At the European championships he won a gold medal in 1958 setting a new continental record. That year he was ranked as the world's best hammer thrower.^[1]

Rut was born in a family of a carpenter in Przeworsk, and completed his school studies in Wrocław in 1950. In 1966 he received a master's degree in sanitation engineering. During his athletics career Rut won 8 national titles in the hammer throw (1955–1958, 1961, 1964, 1965) and discus throw (1956) and set 18 national records.^[1]