Rafał Omelko


Rafał Omelko is a Polish athlete specialising in the 400 metres. He has won two medals in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the European Athletics Championships.

Career

Omelko finished fourth at the 2013 Summer Universiade and reached the semifinals at the 2014 World Indoor Championships.
His personal bests in the event are 45.14 seconds outdoors and 46.08 indoors.
Omelko and his teammates qualified to the 4 × 400 metres relay final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The Polish quartet of Karol Zalewski, Rafał Omelko, Łukasz Krawczuk, Jakub Krzewina broke the world indoor record in the men's 4x400m with a stunning finish to the final track event of the 2018 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham. Krzewina overtook the leaders from the beginning - Americans on the last straight and achieved the greatest success in their career.

Competition record

: Competed only in heat.