Tadeusz Rut

{{Short description|Polish athlete (1931–2002)}}

{{Infobox sportsperson

|image=Tadeusz Rut 1960.jpg

|image_size=270px

|caption=Tadeusz Rut at the 1960 Olympics

|birth_date=11 October 1931

|birth_place= Przeworsk, Poland[http://www.olimpijski.pl/pl/bio/1918,rut-tadeusz.html Tadeusz Rut]. Polish Olympic Committee

|death_date=27 March 2002 (aged 70)

|death_place= Warsaw, Poland

| height = {{convert|1.83|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

| weight = {{convert|90|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}}

|sport=Athletics

|coach=Sławomir Zieleniewski, Paweł Kozubek

|event=Hammer throw, discus throw

|club =MKS Czarni (1949–1951)
OWKS (1952–1953)
Odry (1956–1957)
Burzy Wrocław (1958)
Legia Warsaw (1959–1967)

|pb=HT – 67.07 m (1964)
DT – 51.09 m (1959)[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417173028/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ru/tadeusz-rut-1.html Tadeusz Rut]. sports-reference.com

| show-medals = yes

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalCountry | {{POL}} }}

{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}

{{MedalBronze | 1960 Rome | Hammer throw}}

{{MedalCompetition|European Athletics Championships}}

{{MedalGold|1958 Stockholm|Hammer throw}}

}}

Tadeusz Rut (11 October 1931 – 27 March 2002) was a Polish athlete. He competed at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics in the hammer throw and won a bronze medal in 1960. In 1956 he also finished 17th in the discus throw and was selected as the Olympic flag bearer for Poland. At the European championships he won a gold medal in 1958 setting a new continental record. That year he was ranked as the world's best hammer thrower.

Rut was born in a family of a carpenter in Przeworsk, and completed his school studies in Wrocław in 1950. In 1966 he received a master's degree in sanitation engineering. During his athletics career Rut won 8 national titles in the hammer throw (1955–1958, 1961, 1964, 1965) and discus throw (1956) and set 18 national records.