Biography.guide
Home › People › Athletics competitor › Jerzy Pławczyk
Portrait of Jerzy Pławczyk

Jerzy Pławczyk

1911 – 2005

Polish high jumper and decathlete

Don't just read it — keep itBiographies to ownE-book · Audio · Video From $7 →

About Jerzy Pławczyk

Lived 1911 – 2005 (aged 93). Jerzy Pławczyk was a Polish athletics competitor.

Jerzy Pławczyk (16 April 1911 – 16 January 2005) was a Polish athlete who competed at 1932 and 1936 Summer Olympics.

Biography In 1932 in Los Angeles, he competed in the men's high jump event, where he placed joint-seventh out of fourteen competitors with a top height of 1.90m. In 1936 in Berlin he placed twenty-second and last in the same event with a height of 1.80m. He also finished ninth out of twenty-eight competitors in the decathlon event and set his personal best score. He was born in Dąbrowa Górnicza and was a member of the AZS Warszawa club.

A 1932 graduate of the Central Institute of Physical Education in Warsaw, that same year Pławczyk became the European champion in the high jump with a height of 1.96m, having already been a three-time national record holder in the event. He won a bronze medal in the decathlon event at the 1934 European Athletics Championships in Turin, and placed sixth in the same event at the 1938 European Athletics Championships in Vienna. He was a national champion on numerous occasions in the 1930s. In 1938, he moved to France and joined the army in 1940. From 1943 through 1948 he worked as a sports instructor in Vichy, Paris, and Rome, later working as a salesman and teacher, before returning to Poland.

Biography shop

Don’t just read it —
keep it.

Full-length biographies made to live with: read them, listen on the way to work, watch them tonight.

  • E-book
  • Audio
  • Video
Browse the shop — from $7

Instant download · yours to keep · every purchase keeps this site free

Important facts

Contemporaries

People whose lives overlapped Jerzy Pławczyk's

Frequently asked questions

Who was Jerzy Pławczyk?

Polish high jumper and decathlete (1911–2005)

When was Jerzy Pławczyk born?

Jerzy Pławczyk was born on 16 April 1911 in Dąbrowa Górnicza.

When did Jerzy Pławczyk die?

Jerzy Pławczyk died on 16 January 2005 in Lambrecht.

What was Jerzy Pławczyk's occupation?

Jerzy Pławczyk was an athletics competitor.

What nationality was Jerzy Pławczyk?

Jerzy Pławczyk was Polish.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Jerzy Pławczyk

· Wikidata: Q6185492

· DBpedia: Jerzy Pławczyk

Cite this page

APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Jerzy Pławczyk. https://biography.guide/jerzy-plawczyk/

MLA: "Jerzy Pławczyk." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/jerzy-plawczyk/.

Chicago: "Jerzy Pławczyk." Biography.guide. https://biography.guide/jerzy-plawczyk/.

Data last updated: 2026-09-22 · Spot an error? Report a correction.

Portrait: Wikimedia Commons · author & licence

Page generated 2026-09-27 05:04 UTC