Tadeusz Rut

Tadeusz Rut

Tadeusz Rut at the 1960 Olympics
Personal information
Born	11 October 1931 Przeworsk, Poland
Died	27 March 2002 (aged 70) Warsaw, Poland
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	90 kg (200 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Hammer throw, discus throw
Club	MKS Czarni (1949–1951) OWKS (1952–1953) Odry (1956–1957) Burzy Wrocław (1958) Legia Warszawa (1959–1967)
Coached by	Sławomir Zieleniewski, Paweł Kozubek
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	HT – 67.07 m (1964) DT – 51.09 m (1959)
Medal record Representing Poland Olympic Games 1960 Rome Hammer throw European Championships 1958 Stockholm Hammer throw

Tadeusz Rut (11 October 1931 – 27 March 2002) was a Polish athlete. He competed at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics in the hammer throw and won a bronze medal in 1960. In 1956 he also finished 17th in the discus throw and was selected as the Olympic flag bearer for Poland. At the European championships he won a gold medal in 1958 setting a new continental record. That year he was ranked as the world's best hammer thrower.

Rut was born in a family of a carpenter in Przeworsk, and completed his school studies in Wroclaw in 1950. In 1966 he received a master's degree in sanitation engineering. During his athletics career Rut won 8 national titles in the hammer throw (1955–1958, 1961, 1964, 1965) and discus throw (1956) and set 18 national records.