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Team Europe for IAAF World Cup - Time-to-Run Track section - track news (598 words) |
 | He jumped 7.94m in training at the age of 17 and so he decided he wanted to go to the 1996 World Junior Championships as a long jumper, but when he kept missing the qualifying mark he decided to try the hurdles and his career was launched. |
| Marek Plawgo, the elite athlete with the playboy image, is cast in the mould of one of Poland’s most famous quarter milers, Andrzej Badenski. |
| The extra curricular activities may be explained away by the fact that Plawgo has suffered from a rash of injuries in his career, necessitating a great deal of down time. |
| Andrzej Badenski (64 words) |
| (The photo above shows Andrzej during the final of the 400m at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. |
| Badenski is in lane 2 (495), with the winner Michael Larrabee in lane 5 (709) and the silver medallist Wendell Mottley in lane 7 (613). |
| This photograph is the copyright © of George Herringshaw and sporting-heroes.net |
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