LISEK Piotr

Date of Birth: 16 Aug 1992

Age: 28

Gender: Male

Place of birth: DUSZNIKI

Birth Country:

Poland

Place of residence : SZCZECIN

Residence Country:

Poland

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Athletics	Men's Pole Vault	6

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Olympic Stadium - Pole Vault B	Men's Pole Vault Qualification - Group B	Finished
	Olympic Stadium - Pole Vault A	Men's Pole Vault Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Pole Vault
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	4th (5.75)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	Pole Vault
2019	Doha, QAT	3rd (5.87)
2017	London, GBR	2nd (5.89)
2015	Beijing, CHN	3rd (5.80)

European Championships

Year	Location	Pole Vault
2018	Berlin, GER	4th (5.90)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	Pole Vault
2021	1 x 5th
2019	2 x 1st, 2 x 2nd, 2 x 3rd
2018	1 x 2nd, 1 x 3rd, 2 x 4th
2017	1 x 1st, 1 x 2nd, 2 x 3rd

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2019	Pole Vault	Monaco, MON	6.02
1	2019	Pole Vault	Lausanne, SUI	6.01
1	2017	Pole Vault	Monaco, MON	5.82
2	2019	Pole Vault	Oslo, NOR	5.81
2	2019	Pole Vault	Stockholm, SWE	5.60
2	2018	Pole Vault	Shanghai, CHN	5.81
2	2017	Pole Vault	Zurich, SUI	5.80
3	2019	Pole Vault	Zurich, SUI	5.83
3	2019	Pole Vault	Stanford, CA, USA	5.71
3	2018	Pole Vault	Stockholm, SWE	5.76
3	2017	Pole Vault	Rabat, MAR	5.70
3	2017	Pole Vault	Eugene, OR, USA	5.81

World Athletics Continental Tour - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2020	Pole Vault	World Athletics Continental Tour	Chorzow, POL	5.82
3	2021	Pole Vault	World Athletics Continental Tour	Bydgoszcz, POL	5.82

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
2	2019	Pole Vault	World Challenge	Ostrava, CZE	5.71
2	2017	Pole Vault	World Challenge	Berlin, GER	5.81
3	2019	Pole Vault	World Challenge	Berlin, GER	5.70
3	2018	Pole Vault	World Challenge	Hengelo, NED	5.55

World Indoor Championships

Year	Location	Pole Vault
2018	Birmingham, GBR	3rd (5.85)

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Wood carving, windsurfing, diving, swimming, kitesurfing, wakeboarding, reading comic strips. (WeszloTV YouTube channel, 26 Jun 2020; tvp.pl, 26 Sep 2019)

Occupation:

Physical Education - University of Szczecin, Poland

Wife Aleksandra, daughter Liliana [2019]

Languages spoken:

English, Polish

OSOT Szczecin [Poland]

Marcin Szczepanski [club], POL

Sporting relatives:

His wife Aleksandra Wisnik has represented Poland in athletics and competed in pole vault at the 2011 European Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia. (tvp.pl, 26 Sep 2019; SportsDeskOnline, 11 Feb 2020)

A calf injury ruled him out of competing at the September 2020 Diamond League event in Lausanne, Switzerland. (worldathletics.org, 01 Sep 2020)

In January 2020 he suffered a groin injury. (sport.pl, 08 Feb 2020)

He took up athletics in his hometown of Duszniki, Poland. He began training seriously at age 14 in Poznan, Poland. (wyborcza.pl, 11 Feb 2017)

"I was always a very active kid and my uncle, who was also my first coach, encouraged me to try athletics. I started with high jump, but I was too short, so my uncle suggested pole vault." (polski-sport.pl, 12 Mar 2015)

To jump at least six metres and win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (cos.pl, 09 Feb 2020; tvp.pl, 01 Dec 2020)

Winning silver in pole vault at the 2017 World Championships in London, England. (rp.pl, 02 Oct 2019)

Soviet and Ukrainian pole vaulter Sergey Bubka, Polish Para handcyclist Rafal Wilk. (tvp.pl, 08 Oct 2018; kierunektokio.pl, 04 Jun 2019)

He roars before running in to jump. "It's my competition habit, I don't do it during training. I took it from my youth times. I was observing others and I started to do it, too. It became my second nature and now it's my signature move." (tvn24.pl, 06 Mar 2021)

General Interest

General
FATHERHOOD
In 2019 he became a father, and says that having a child has given him an additional boost of motivation. "I have someone for whom I want to jump even higher. My motivation is even greater since I became a father." (WeszloTV YouTube channel, 26 Jun 2020)

POLES OF AN IDOL
In July 2017 while travelling to compete at the Diamond League event in Monaco, his competition poles got left behind at the airport. He arrived at the venue and was told to use whatever equipment he could find there. He came across poles that had been used by his idol, pole vaulter Sergey Bubka, who won gold for the Soviet Union at the 1988 Games in Seoul and also lived in Monaco. Via Bubka's former coach, Lisek gained permission to use them from Bubka and went on to win gold at the event. "I noticed the tube with the inscription 'S. Bubka', and three high hardness poles in it, from 1992. They had to be Sergey's poles, because then no one jumped as hard as him. They felt like my own, as evidenced by the result obtained. I know Bubka was at the meeting, but I didn't get to see him or thank him." (sport.se.pl, 24 Jul 2017)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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