Marcin Urbaś is a former Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 track and field

Track and field

Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

 athlete. He is the Polish record holder for 200 metres dash with 19.98 seconds. He is now a sprinting coach.

Track and field

Urbaś is the Polish national record holder over the half-a-lap (19.98 seconds clocked in the semi-final of the World Championships in 1999, in Seville, Spain. Wind Factor: +1.7). Urbas is one of the four Polish athletes who brought the Polish national records in dashes up-to-the global standards: Marian Woronin

Marian Woronin

Marian Jerzy Woronin is a retired Polish athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. He is a four-time European Indoor Champion in the 60 metres...

 10.00 (9.992) over 100 m; Marcin Urbaś 19.98 over 200m; and Tomasz Czubak

Tomasz Czubak

Tomasz Czubak is a former 400 metres runner from Poland. He won a silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1998 European Championships and the 1999 World Championships in Athletics. Running in the 1999 individual contest, he set a personal best and a national record, with 44.62-External links:...

 and Robert Maćkowiak

Robert Mackowiak

Robert Maćkowiak is a Polish sprinter. Together with Tomasz Czubak, Jacek Bocian and Piotr Haczek he won the gold medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics...

(not a national record holder) over 400 m, 44.62 – the Polish national record, and 44.84, respectively. Urbaś improved the Polish national record of 20 years by Leszek Dunecki

Leszek Dunecki

Leszek Dunecki was a Polish athlete who competed mainly in the 100/200 metres. He was polish champion on 6 occasions.He won a European Championship Gold medal in 1978 in the 4x100 metres....

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Results and honors

He won the gold medal over a lap indoor in the European Indoor Championships in 2002, and the bronze medal in 2005.
Urbas has been part of the Polish national 4 x 100 m relay who won the silver medal during the European (outdoor) Championships in 2002.

Achievements

Representing
2001	World Student Games Athletics at the 2001 Summer Universiade At the 2001 Summer Universiade, the athletics events were held in Beijing, People's Republic of China. A total of 45 events were contested, of which 23 by male and 22 by female athletes. The host country, China, took the most gold medals and the most medals overall . The United States were a close...	Beijing Beijing Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's... , PR China	1st	200 m

Other achievements

SPAR CUP: European National Teams' (Men's) Super League:

200 m: Bronze in 2006; Silver in 2002; Bronze in 2001; Gold in 1999;
4 x 100 m relay: Gold in 2006

Other personal bests:

60 m Indoor: 6.70 16FEB02

100 m: 10.30 +0.7 Wind
02JUL99

150 m: 15.16 'NR' -1.9 Wind 29MAY99

200 m Indoor: 20.55 National Record 01MAR02

400 m: 47.08 11SEP04

Music

Aside of his sport career he was a successful vocalist in Polish death metal band Sceptic

Sceptic (band)

Sceptic is a Polish death metal band from Kraków.Sceptic is a Polish death metal band founded in 1994 by Jacek Hiro . Marcin Urbaś handled the vocal duties for the first and third album , but currently is a session member due to his sport career...

. Marcin Urbaś recorded with them two albums:
"Blind Existence" and "Unbeliever's Script".

Retirement

After Mr. Tadeusz Osik refused to include him on the Polish national 4 x 100m relay for the 2008 Summer Olympics

2008 Summer Olympics

The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...

, Urbas was removed from the list of the members of The Polish national track and field team; therefore, PZLA or the Polish Track and Field Association did stop supporting him financially. Because of the lack of financial support, Mr. Urbas as of 2009 has retired as a professional athlete. Mr. Urbas did claim that he would have been able of running close to his Personal Best of 19.98s over 200 meters (20.1—20.2 over 200m) only if, he would be capable of investing into himself around 80,000 Polish Zloty or, at the time, around 25,000 dollars.

See also

• Polish records in athletics
  Polish records in athletics
  The following are the national records in athletics in Poland maintained by its national athletics federation: Polski Związek Lekkiej Atletyki .-Men:-Women:-Men:-Women:# = not recognised by federation-External links:* * * * *...
  
  
• 2002 European Athletics Championships
• 2002 European Athletics Indoor Championships
  2002 European Athletics Indoor Championships
  The 27th European Athletics Indoor Championships were held from Friday, 1 March to Sunday, 3 March 2002 in Vienna, the capital city of Austria.-Men:-Women:-Medal table:Key:-Participating nations:...
  
  
• 1999 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres

External links

• Marcin Urbaś Running and Physical Education School - Urban Sptint Group
• Urbaś sings in a duet
• The same song sung solo, by Patrycja Jankowska, with pictures of Mr. Urbaś