Monika Pyrek (POL) competing at the World Championships in Paris (© Getty Images)
Robert Korzeniowski and Monika Pyrek have been announced as winners of the 2003 Golden Spike Award for the best Polish athletes of last year.
Korzeniowski the race walking legend who retained his World 50km title in Paris in a World record of 3:36:03, was the outstanding winner of the men's award for the sixth time in his career, with 980 points.
Pyrek who was bronze medallist in the women's Pole Vault in the World Indoor championships and then was fourth equal outdoors in Paris with Stacy Dragila, took her second women's award with 835 points.
Here is the overall "Golden Spikes '2003" ranking in which athletes are awarded points for each achievement during the year.
Men
1. Robert Korzeniowski (Wawel Kraków) 980 points
2. Marcin Jedrusinski (Olimpia Poznan) 568
3. Aleksander Walerianczyk (Wawel Kraków) 535
4. Marek Plawgo (Warszawianka) 529
5. Grzegorz Sposób (AZS Lublin) 519
6. Marcin Urbas (Warszawianka) 503
7. Rafal Wieruszewski (Orkan Wlkp.Poznan) 433
8. Radoslaw Poplawski (Astra Nowa Sól) 400
9. Lukasz Chyla (SKLA Sopot) 388
10. Zbigniew Graczyk (AZS AWF Gorzów Wlkp.) 350
Women
1. Monika Pyrek (KL Gdynia/MKL Szczecin) 835 points
2. Aurelia Trywianska (AZS AWF Warszawa) 643
3. Krystyna Zabawska (Podlasie Bialystok) 550
4. Anna Rogowska (SKLA Sopot) 530
5. Kamila Skolimowska (Warszawianka) 525
6. Anna Jesien (AZS AWF Warszawa) 501
7. Monika Bejnar (Warszawianka) 483
8. Malgorzata Pskit (Warszawianka) 473
9. Anna Ksok (Slask Wroclaw) 430
10. Daria Onysko (AZS AWF Poznan) 405
Previous winners in the history of the Golden Spikes
women - men
1970 - Teresa Sukniewicz - Henryk Szordykowski
1971 - Irena Szewinska - Wladyslaw Komar
1972 - Szewinska - Komar
1973 - Szewinska - Bronislaw Malinowski
1974 - Szewinska - Malinowski
1975 - Szewinska - Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz
1976 - Szewinska - Jacek Wszola
1977 - Szewinska - Kozakiewicz
1978 - Grazyna Rabsztyn - Jan Ornoch
1979 - Rabsztyn - Marian Woronin
1980 - Rabsztyn - Kozakiewicz
1981 - Malgorzata Nowakowa - Boguslaw Maminski
1982 - Lucyna Kalkowa - Janusz Trzepizur
1983 - Kalkowa - Zdzislaw Hoffmann
1984 - Kalkowa - Boguslaw Maminski
1985 - Genowefa Blaszakowa - Woronin
1986 - Ewa Kasprzyk - Krzysztof Krawczyk
1987 - Kasprzyk - Woronin
1988 - Agata Karczmarek - Zdzislaw Szlapkin
1989 - Malgorzata Rydz - Tomasz Nagórka
1990 - Wanda Panfil - Robert Korzeniowski
1991 - Panfil - Artur Partyka
1992 - Rydz - Partyka
1993 - Urszula Wlodarczyk - Partyka
1994 - Wlodarczyk - Partyka
1995 - Malgorzata Sobanska - Partyka
1996 - Wlodarczyk - Korzeniowski
1997 - Wlodarczyk - Korzeniowski
1998 - Wlodarczyk - Partyka
1999 - Krystyna Zabawska - Marcin Urbas
2000 - Kamila Skolimowska - Korzeniowski
2001 - Monika Pyrek - Szymon Ziólkowski
2002 - Skolimowska - Korzeniowski
2003 - Pyrek (2) - Korzeniowski (5)
