Adam Galant

Adam Galant (21 February 1952 – on or before 1 December 2025) was a Polish hurdler. He won the silver medal in the 60 metres hurdles at the 1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships. On 25 February 1973, he ran 7.57 seconds over 60 m hurdles to win the Polish Indoor Athletics Championships, setting a world record over the distance.

Career Galant ran for the athletics section of the club beginning in 1971. He advanced past the heats of the 60 metres hurdles at the 1971 European Indoor Championships, but placed 4th in his semi-final and did make the finals. Outdoors, he placed 5th at the 1971 Janusz Kusociński Memorial and 3rd at a later meeting in Warsaw over 110 m hurdles. At the 1972 Polish Olympic trials, Galant ultimately finished 4th and was not selected for the team. At the 1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships, Galant won his heat and semi-final to advance to the finals, where he ran 7.76 seconds behind only Frank Siebeck. Outdoors, he won the sprint hurdles at a race in Havana, Cuba in May 1973. He did not record performances in 1975. He graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology. His coach said that he observed Galant had an unusually large number of fast twitch muscle fibers and could have broken the 110 metres hurdles world record had he not been injured.