{{Short description|Polish long-distance runner (1931–1987)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Jerzy Chromik | birth_name = | image = | caption = | nationality =Polish | sport = middle-distance running | event = 3000 metres steeplechase | club = | birth_date ={{Birth date|1931|06|15|df=yes}} | birth_place =Mysłowice, Poland | death_date = {{death date and age|1987|10|21|1931|06|15|df=yes}} | death_place = Katowice, Poland | height = | weight = | medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry|{{POL}}}} {{MedalSport|Men's athletics}} {{MedalCompetition|European Championships}} {{MedalGold|1958 Stockholm|3000 m st.}} }}
'''Jerzy Chromik''' (15 June 1931 in Mysłowice – 21 October 1987 in Katowice) was a foremost long-distance runner from Poland.
==Biography== Chromik took eight national titles at long distances: 3000 m steeplechase (1952, 1954, 1956, 1960, 1961, 1962), 5000 m (1953), 10,000 m (1955).
He participated in three European Championships in Athletics in Bern (1954), Stockholm (1958), Belgrade (1962). He also took place in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne (1956), and the 17th Olympic Games in Rome (1960).
In 1955, Chromik won the 5.000 metres, ahead of Sándor Iharos, József Kovács, Emil Zátopek, and Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak, at the International Youth Festival in Warsaw. In 1955 and 1958, he won the 3000m in the Kusocinski Memorial in Warsaw. In the 1958 European Championship at Stockholm, he won gold medal at the 3000m steeplechase. In 1959, he won a Cross L'Humanité in Paris.
Chromik set the 3000m steeplechase world records with 8:41.2 in Brno (August 1955), 8:40.2 in Budapest (September 1955), and 8:32.0 in Warsaw (August 1958).
==References== *{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ch/jerzy-chromik-1.html |title=Jerzy Chromik |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920192905/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ch/jerzy-chromik-1.html |archive-date=2011-09-20 |url-status=dead}}
{{S-start}} {{S-ach|rec}} {{Succession box|before={{Flagicon|URS}} Vasili Vlasenko|title=Men's Steeplechase World Record Holder|years=31 August 1955 – 14 August 1956|after={{Flagicon|URS}} Semyon Rzhishchin}} {{Succession box|before={{Flagicon|URS}} Semyon Rzhishchin|title=Men's Steeplechase World Record Holder|years=2 August 1958 – 26 June 1960|after={{Flagicon|POL}} Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak}} {{S-end}}
{{Footer European Champions 3000 m Steeplechase Men}} {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chromik, Jerzy}} Category:1931 births Category:1987 deaths Category:Sportspeople from Mysłowice Category:People from Silesian Voivodeship (1920–1939) Category:Polish men long-distance runners Category:Polish men steeplechase runners Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic athletes for Poland Category:World record setters in the sport of athletics Category:European Athletics Championships medalists Category:Athletes from Silesian Voivodeship Category:Polish Athletics Championships winners Category:20th-century Polish sportsmen