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Who is Tomasz Majewski?

Tomasz Majewski
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Tomasz Majewski (born 30 August 1981 in Nasielsk) is a Polish Olympic gold medalist shot putter. He is 204 cm (6' 8½") tall and weighs 132 kg (290 lb). He threw 21.51 meters during the Olympic final on 15 August 2008. This earned him the gold medal, Poland's first Olympic medal in shot put since 1972 when the late Władysław Komar took the gold. Majewski is also the first Pole to win gold at the 2008 Olympics.

On 25 July 2009 in Barcelona he threw a personal best of 21.64 m and few days later in DN Galan in Stockholm, Sweden he improved upon this with a throw of 21.95 m, a new Polish record. He has a personal best of 21.10 meters on the indoor track, achieved at in Chemnitz, Germany. This is the current Polish indoor record. For his sport achievements, he received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (5th Class) in 2008.