| Rank | Event | Year | Location | Result |
| Olympic Games | ||||
| 1 | Hammer Throw | 2000 | Sydney, NSW, AUS | 80.02 |
| 7 | Hammer Throw | 2008 | Beijing, CHN | 79.22 |
| 10 | Hammer Throw | 1996 | Atlanta, GA, USA | 76.64 |
| Qualification | Hammer Throw | 2004 | Athens, GRE | 76.17 |
| World Championships | ||||
| 1 | Hammer Throw | 2001 | Edmonton, AB, CAN | 83.38 |
| 2 | Hammer Throw | 2009 | Berlin, GER | 79.30 |
| 3 | Hammer Throw | 2005 | Helsinki, FIN | 79.35 |
| 7 | Hammer Throw | 2011 | Daegu, KOR | 77.64 |
| European Championships | ||||
| 3 | Hammer Throw | 2012 | Helsinki, FIN | 76.67 |
| 5 | Hammer Throw | 2010 | Barcelona, ESP | 77.99 |
| World Challenge | ||||
| 5 | Hammer Throw | 2012 | Kawasaki, JPN | 73.72 |
| 5 | Hammer Throw | 2011 | Zagreb, CRO | 76.79 |
| 6 | Hammer Throw | 2010 | Madrid, ESP | 75.80 |
| 7 | Hammer Throw | 2010 | Zagreb, CRO | 74.48 |
| 8 | Hammer Throw | 2011 | Zhukovskiy, RUS | 71.67 |
| 8 | Hammer Throw | 2010 | Ostrava, CZE | 72.50 |
Nickname
Ziolek (NOC, 04 May 2004)
Hobbies
Computers and golf. (NOC, 2008)
Family
Sons Adas and Dawid
Language(s) spoken
English, Polish
Club name
AZS AWF Poznan, Poznan, POL
Coach
Grzegorz Nowak [club] (sportowefakty.pl, 14 Feb 2012)
Handedness
Right (NOC, 04 May 2004)
Other sports
His sister Michalina Ziolkowska is a hammer thrower. (olimpijski.pl, 2011) His father Jerzego Ziolkowski was also a hammer thrower. (iaaf.org, 03 Aug 2008)
Injuries
He injured his right shoulder in May 2003 and withdrew from the Osaka Grand Prix. (cs-online, 06 May 2003)
Additional information
Start of sporting career
He took up athletics in 1989 in Poznan, Poland. (NOC, 04 May 2004)
Reason for taking up this sport
His father suggested it as an option. (NOC, 04 May 2004)
Most memorable sporting achievement
Winning gold at the 2000 Olympic Games and 2001 World Championships. (NOC, 04 May 2004)
Sporting philosophy / motto
"Never give up." (NOC, 04 May 2004)
Awards
He received an Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 2009. (sportowcy.pl, 02 Sep 2009)
He became Poland's first Olympic gold medallist in the hammer throw in Sydney in 2000, and the nation's first medallist of any kind in the discipline since Tadeusz Rut won bronze in Rome in 1960. (Olympic News Service 2000)
Previous Olympics
Beijing 2008, Athens 2004, Sydney 2000, Atlanta 1996
