# Pia Skrzyszowska

Pia Skrzyszowska (born 20 April 2001) is a Polish athlete specialising in the sprint hurdles. She won gold medals in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2022 European Championships and 2021 European Under-23 Championships.
Skrzyszowska was the 2019 European U20 Championship 100 m hurdles silver medallist. She is a three-time Polish national champion.

## Career

Pia Skrzyszowska's mother, Jolanta Bartczak, is a former Olympic long jumper and 1988 European Indoor Championship bronze medallist.
She won the silver medal in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2019 European Under-20 Championships held in Borås, Sweden, at the age of 18.
Aged 19, she finished fifth in the 60 metres hurdles at the 2021 European Indoor Championships on home soil in Toruń. She won the gold medal in the 100 m hurdles at the European Under-23 Championships in Tallinn, Estonia that year.
In 2022, Skrzyszowska became triple Polish national champion. At the European Athletics Championships held in August in Munich, she claimed her first major senior title, with gold in the 100 m hurdles in a time of 12.53 seconds. She added silver for the women's 4 × 100 m relay alongside Anna Kiełbasińska, Marika Popowicz-Drapała and Ewa Swoboda.
In her 2023 season's debut on 29 January, Skrzyszowska won the 60 m hurdles at the ISTAF Indoor Düsseldorf in Germany in a personal best of 7.84 seconds. Just a few days later, she produced a world-leading 7.78 s at the Orlen Cup on home soil in Łódź to come within hundredth of a second of Polish record set by Zofia Bielczyk in 1980. At the 2023 European Games Pia Skrzyszowska won the women’s 100 metres hurdles in Chorzów, in 12.77 seconds.
In 2024, she set her personal best of 12.37 seconds in La Chaux-de-Fonds.

## Achievements
### Personal bests

   * 60 m hurdles – 7.78 (Łódź 2023)
   * 60 metres indoor – 7.12 (Toruń 2022)
* 100 m hurdles – 12.37 (La Chaux-de-Fonds, 2024)
** 100 m hurdles (76.2 cm) – 13.35 (+1.2 m/s, Warsaw 2018) NU18R
* 100 metres – 11.12 (+1.4 m/s, Kalamata 2022)

### International competitions

Representing  Poland :
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Time |
| 2017 | Youth Olympic Festival | Győr, Hungary | – | 100 m hurdles (76.2 cm) | DNF |
| 2017 | Youth Olympic Festival | Győr, Hungary | 6th | 4 × 100 m relay | 47.84 |
| 2018 | European U18 Championships | Győr, Hungary | 13th (sf) | 100 m | 11.94 |
| 2018 | European U18 Championships | Győr, Hungary | 8th | 200 m | 24.63 |
| 2018 | World U20 Championships | Tampere, Finland | 5th | 4 × 100 m relay | 44.61 SB |
| 2018 | Youth Olympic Games | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 6th | 200 m | 48.46$^1$ |
| 2019 | European U20 Championships | Borås, Sweden | 2nd | 100 m hurdles | 13.35 |
| 2019 | European U20 Championships | Borås, Sweden | 6th | 4 × 100 m relay | 44.72 |
| 2021 | European Indoor Championships | Toruń, Poland | 5th | 60 m hurdles | 7.95 |
| 2021 | World Relays | Chorzów, Poland | 2nd | 4 × 100 m relay | 44.10 |
| 2021 | European Team Championships Super League | Chorzów, Poland | 1st | 100 m | 11.25 EU23L |
| 2021 | European Team Championships Super League | Chorzów, Poland | 1st | 100 m hurdles | 12.99 |
| 2021 | European U23 Championships | Tallinn, Estonia | 1st | 100 m hurdles | 12.77 |
| 2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 19th (sf) | 100 m hurdles | 12.89 |
| 2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 10th (h) | 4 × 100 m relay | 43.09 |
| 2022 | World Indoor Championships | Belgrade, Serbia | 14th (sf) | 60 m | 7.17 |
| 2022 | World Championships | Eugene, OR, United States | 10th (sf) | 100 m hurdles | 12.62 |
| 2022 | European Championships | Munich, Germany | 1st | 100 m hurdles | 12.53 |
| 2022 | European Championships | Munich, Germany | 2nd | 4 × 100 m relay | 42.61 NR |
| 2023 | World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 12th (sf) | 100 m hurdles | 12.71 |
| 2023 | World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 5th | 4 × 100 m relay | 42.66 |
| 2024 | World Indoor Championships | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 3rd | 60 m hurdles | 7.79 |
| 2024 | European Championships | Rome, Italy | 3rd | 100 m hurdles | 12.42 PB |
| 2024 | Olympic Games | Paris, France | 9th (sf) | 100 m hurdles | 12.55 |
| 2025 | European Indoor Championships | Apeldoorn, Netherlands | 3rd | 60 m hurdles | 7.83 |
$^1$Sum of two times

### National titles

* Polish Athletics Championships
** 100 metres hurdles: 2021, 2022
** 100 metres: 2021