Hubert Trościanka
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| Born | 26 July 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Decathlon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | Decathlon: 8514 (Tampere, 2025) WU20R | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Hubert Trościanka (born 26 July 2006) is a Polish multi-event athlete. He is the current world U20 record holder in the decathlon.[1]
Career
Born in 2006, Trościanka specialised in throwing events in his early career and was polish U16 champion in the discus throw, before later transitioning into multi-events. He won the decathlon at the 2023 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Maribor, Slovenia. He is a member of Sports Club AZS-AWF Warsaw and is coached by Marek Rzepka.[2][3]
Trościanka set a Polish under-20 record with his performance at the Polish U-20 All-Around Championships in Warsaw, scoring 8145 points to break the previous record by more than 600 points.[4]
He won the silver medal as an 18 year-old in the decathlon at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru in a Polish under-20 national record of 8230 points, breaking his own record. He became the first Polish athlete to win a medal in the decathlon at the World Junior Championships. His tally included personal bests efforts in the 400 metres (47.24 seconds), the 1500 metres (4:24.41) and in the long jump (7.27 metres).[5][6][7]
World U20 Record
Competing at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland, he took an early lead with a lifetime best of 10.74 seconds in the 100 metres.[8] He briefly lost the lead on the first day after the high jump to Dutchman Luuk Pelkmans before regaining it at the end of the first day with a run of 46.21 seconds for the 400 metres to break the world U20 best by a decathlete, previously held by Australia’s Ashley Moloney.[9] Pelkmans regained the lead after the discus throw, but there remained only 16 points between the top-two athletes as the event moved to its final three disciplines.[10] He regained the lead after clearing a personal best 4.80 metres in the pole vault.[11] He then won the javelin javelin with a championship best of 68.87m, and ran 4:28.59 for the 1500 metres. He ended the competition with the under-20 world record in the decathlon with 8514 points, breaking the previous best mark set by Niklas Kaul.[12][13]
References
- ^ "Hubert Trościanka". World Athletics. Retrieved 8 July 2025.
- ^ Jelonek, Jakub (8 August 2025). "European U20 Championships in Tampere: Trościanka's impressive 400-meter run. Pole leads the decathlon". bieganie.pl. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ "HUBERT TROŚCIANKA: I WANT TO WRITE MY OWN STORY". pzla.pl. 23 June 2025. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ Kozica, Szymon (24 June 2024). "Hubert Trościanka holds the Polish record. And what a record!". Lubuskie.pl. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ "Jarvinen threatens world U20 decathlon record to get gold in Lima". World Athletics. 31 August 2024. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ Grupa, Andrew (8 August 2025). "The Polish giant set course for gold. But what happened in that race? The fastest time ever". Inertia.pl. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ "Polak wicemistrzem świata! Pierwszy taki medal w historii!". Sport.tvl.pl. 31 August 2024. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ "Over 80 metres! 80.68m for Szabados in hammer qualifying in Tampere 2025". European Athletics. 7 August 2025. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ "World U20 decathlon best! Troscianka regains decathlon lead with 46.21 400m". European Athletics. 7 August 2025. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ "Final entries published for 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships". European Athletics. 29 July 2025. Retrieved 30 July 2025.
- ^ Wisniewski, Paweł (8 August 2025). "In the final stretch for the world record. After a grueling battle, only two events remain: javelin and 1500 meters, in 64.90 and 4:26.60". Sportowy24.pl. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ "World U20 record! Troscianka wins European U20 decathlon gold with 8514 points". European Athletics. 8 August 2025. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ "Troscianka breaks world U20 decathlon record in Tampere". World Athletics. 8 August 2025. Retrieved 9 August 2025.