Jacek Bednarek

{{short description|Polish racewalker and businessman}}

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{{Infobox sportsperson

| headercolor = Gold

| full_name = Jacek Bednarek

| sport = Athletics, Racewalking

| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|27 January 1964}}

| birth_place = Rybnik

| citizenship = Polish
(Polish-German ethnicity)

| height = 174 cm

| club = ROW Rybnik

| country = {{POL}}

| medaltemplates = {{Medal|Competition |Polish Athletics Championships}}

{{Medal|Gold |Warsaw 1989|50 kilometres race walk}}

{{Medal|Bronze |Lublin 1984|20 kilometres race walk}}

}}

Jacek Bednarek (born 27 January 1964 in Rybnik, Śląskie) is a male former racewalker from Poland, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics. He set his personal best (3:51.34) in the men's 50 km walk event in 1988.{{Cite web|title = Trener kadry o finałach OrlenLigi: Najlepsza okazja, by zobaczyć jak na nie działa adrenalina|url = http://www.przegladsportowy.pl/siatkowka/orlen-liga,trener-kadry-kobiet-jacek-nawrocki-o-finale-chemik-atom,artykul,564672,1,898.html|accessdate = 2015-05-12}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20121103120539/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/jacek-bednarek-1.html sports-reference] He set a Polish national record in the 50 km walk.

He took part in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul where he was 24th in a 50-kilometer race walk. He was a World Race Walking Cup participant on five occasions.{{Cite web| url = https://iaafmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/competitioninfo/4351adb2-3476-4e4b-8b1c-f8ca4668ac4a.pdf | title = IAAF World Race Walking Cup. Taicang 2014. Facts & Figures | page = 23 |access-date=2015-01-20 | language = en}}{{Cite web| url = https://sites.google.com/bednarek-sport.pl/jacek-bednarek | title= Jacek Bednarek - Sport and the Business - Personal Bio}}

Bednarek was the 1989 Polish champion in the 50 km walk and a bronze medalist in 1984 in the 20 km walk.{{Cite book | last1= Kurzyński | first1= Henryk | last2 = Pietkiewicz | first2 = Stefan | last3 = Rozum | first3 = Janusz | last4 = Wołejko |first4 = Tadeusz | title = Historia finałów lekkoatletycznych mistrzostw Polski 1920-2007. Konkurencje męskie | date = 2008 |publisher = Komisja Statystyczna PZLA | location= Szczecin – Warszawa |isbn=978-83-61233-20-6 |pages = 231 and 238}} For most of his career, he was a ROW Rybnik member.