Lucyna Langer

Born in Mysłowice, Langer first ran under 13 seconds for the 100 metres hurdles with 12.89 secs in 1978, improving to 12.62 in 1979, when winning the Universiade title in Mexico City. When her Polish team-mate Grazyna Rabsztyn broke the world record with 12.36 secs in June 1980, Langer finished second in 12.44, to move to second on the world all-time list. She would go on to win an Olympic bronze medal six weeks later in Moscow, running 12.65.

As Lucyna Kalek, she won the 1982 European title in Athens, in a season's best of 12.45 secs. The only woman to go faster that year was Yordanka Donkova with 12.44. Langer defeated Donkova in Athens and was ranked number one on the 1982 Track and Field News world merit rankings. She would go on to rank number one on the 1984 Track and Field News merit rankings. 1984 also saw her slightly improve her best to 12.43 secs in Hannover on 19 August, the fastest 100 metres hurdles time in the world that year, and a time that still ranks her (as of 2018) in the all-time top 20.

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Poland
1978	European Championships	Prague, Czechoslovakia	5th	100 m hurdles	12.98
1979	Universiade	Mexico City, Mexico	1st	100 m hurdles	12.62
1980	Olympic Games	Moscow, Soviet Union	3rd	100 m hurdles	12.65
			7th	4x100 m relay	44.49
1981	World Cup	Rome, Italy	3rd	100 m hurdles	12.971
1982	European Indoor Championships	Milan, Italy	8th (sf)	60 m hurdles	8.13
	European Championships	Athens, Greece	1st	100 m hurdles	12.45
1984	European Indoor Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	1st	60 m hurdles	7.96
	Friendship Games	Moscow, Soviet Union	3rd	100 m hurdles	12.61

¹Representing Europe

• Lucyna Langer at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Lucyna Langer at the International Olympic Committee
• European Championships
• European Indoor Championships

Sporting positions
Preceded by Bettine Jahn	Women's 100m Hurdles Best Year Performance 1984	Succeeded by Ginka Zagorcheva