Marek Sitnik

{{short description|Polish Greco-Roman wrestler}}

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| birth_place = Olsztyn, Poland

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| style = Greco-Roman

| club = Śląsk Wrocław

| coach = Jerzy Adamek

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Marek Sitnik (born 20 April 1975 in Olsztyn) is a Polish former Greco-Roman wrestler, who competed in the men's heavyweight category.{{cite sports-reference|title = Marek Sitnik|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/si/marek-sitnik-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418024633/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/si/marek-sitnik-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 13 June 2014}} Sitnik won silver medals in the 90-kg division at both the 1993 and 1994 European Junior Championships, and later competed in two Olympic Games (2000 and 2004). Throughout his sporting career, Sitnik trained at Śląsk Wrestling Club in Wrocław, under his personal coach and mentor Jerzy Adamek.{{cite news|title=Złoty Sitnik|trans-title=Gold for Sitnik|language=Polish|url=http://wroclaw.naszemiasto.pl/archiwum/zloty-sitnik,435330,t,id.html|publisher=Wrocław Nasze Miasto|date=28 October 2002|accessdate=13 June 2014}}

Sitnik made his official debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, competing in the men's super heavyweight division (130 kg). Sitnik delivered a mediocre effort inside the ring after losing out three straight matches each to Turkey's Fatih Bakir by a sudden death point, Czech Republic's David Vála (0–3), and Israel's Yuri Evseichik, who eventually placed fourth at the end of prelim pool. Sitnik failed to advance further into the quarterfinals, as he finished seventeenth in the final standings.{{cite web|title=Sydney 2000: Wrestling – Super Heavyweight Greco-Roman (130kg)|url=http://library.la84.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2000/Masters/wr/WRresults.pdf|format=PDF|work=Sydney 2000|publisher=LA84 Foundation|pages=111–112|accessdate=21 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160912150548/http://library.la84.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2000/Masters/wr/WRresults.pdf|archive-date=12 September 2016|url-status=dead}}

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Sitnik qualified for his second team, as a 29-year-old veteran, in the men's 96 kg class by rounding out the top eleven spots from the 2003 World Wrestling Championships in Créteil, France.{{cite news|last=Abbott|first=Gary|title=Olympic Games preview at 96 kg/211.5 lbs. in men's Greco-Roman|url=http://www.themat.com/section.php?section_id=3&page=showarticle&ArticleID=10345|work=USA Wrestling|publisher=The Mat|date=27 July 2004|accessdate=21 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140521184218/http://www.themat.com/section.php?section_id=3&page=showarticle&ArticleID=10345|archive-date=21 May 2014|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|title=Szóstka klasyków do Aten|trans-title=Six wrestlers to Athens|language=pl|url=http://www.dziennikpolski24.pl/artykul/1794020,szostka-klasykow-do-aten,id,t.html|publisher=Dziennik Polski|date=15 March 2004|accessdate=13 June 2014}} He lost his opening match to Egypt's eventual gold medalist Karam Gaber, but redeemed himself to pull Kazakhstan's Asset Mambetov off the mat on his second bout with an effortless 3–0 decision. Facing off against the host nation's Georgios Koutsioumpas, Sitnik could not exert enough power to subdue him into the ring, as he lost the match by a single-point deficit. Finishing third in the prelim pool and fourteenth overall in the final standings, Sitnik's performance fell short to put him further into the game.{{cite web|title=Wrestling: Men's Greco-Roman 96kg|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/wrestling/results/3532810.stm|work=Athens 2004|publisher=BBC Sport|date=15 August 2004|accessdate=23 September 2013}}{{cite news|title=Nieudane przedpołudnie Polaków w Atenach|trans-title=Poles came a dull morning in Athens|language=pl|url=http://www.rmf24.pl/sport/news-nieudane-przedpoludnie-polakow-w-atenach,nId,105037|publisher=RMF FM|date=25 August 2004|accessdate=13 June 2014}}