Pedro's Cup

The Pedro's Cup is a biannual athletics event of two legs, which features an indoor track and field competition in January or February and an outdoor competition during the European summer period. The first competition of each year since 2005 has taken place in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The second competition of each year has taken place in another city, currently Poznan, Warsaw and Szczecin have hosted the summer/autumn Pedro's cup competition. The event typically draws top level competition, including at least fifteen Olympic medalists in 2008 and more in 2009.^[1] The meet is unique because it draws best athletes of the world to compete in a rather cold climate.

At the 2008 event, Asafa Powell became the first sprinter to turn in a sub-10 second 100 metres time in Poland, and in 2009, he equalled the meet record of 9.82 seconds. The 2010 indoor event featured only three events (pole vault, shot put and high jump) but Anna Rogowska provided a record-breaking performance by vaulting 4.81 m and beating the previous Polish best mark.^[2]

The 2005 Pedro's Cup indoor competition was held in Bydgoszcz on 26 January 2005.^[3] This was the first time the competition had taken place.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's high jump	Yaroslav Rybakov  Russia	2.31	Jacques Freitag  South Africa	2.28	Jamie Nieto  United States	2.25
Women's pole vault	Anna Rogowska  Poland	4.73	Svetlana Feofanova  Russia	4.53	Monika Pyrek  Poland	4.53

The 2006 Pedro's Cup indoor competition was held in Bydgoszcz on 25 January 2006.^[4]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's high jump	Tomáš Janků  Czech Republic	2.30	Linus Thörnblad  Sweden	2.28	Mark Boswell  Canada	2.24
Women's pole vault	Anna Rogowska  Poland Svetlana Feofanova  Russia	4.64	Not awarded		Monika Pyrek  Poland	4.54

The 2007 Pedro's Cup indoor competition was held in Bydgoszcz on 14 February 2007.^[5][6]

Men's high jump

Position	Name	Nationality	Height	Progression
1	Linus Thörnblad	Sweden	2.34 m	2.20/1 2.24/1 2.28/1 2.30/3 2.32/1 2.34/1 2.36/XXX
2	Yuriy Krymarenko	Ukraine	2.34 m	2.15/1 2.20/1 2.24/1 2.28/3 2.30/1 2.32/1 2.34/3 2.36/XXX
3	Tora Harris	United States	2.30 m
4	Andrey Tereshin	Russia	2.30 m
5	Michał Bieniek	Poland	2.24 m
6	Svatoslav Ton	Czech Republic	2.24 m
7	Aleksander Waleriańczyk	Poland	2.20 m
7	Grzegorz Sposób	Poland	2.20 m
9	Tomáš Janků	Czech Republic	2.15 m

Women's pole vault

Position	Name	Nationality	Height	Progression
1	Yelena Isinbayeva	Russia	4.84 m	4.64/1 4.74/X 4.84/1 4.94/XXX
2	Svetlana Feofanova	Russia	4.74 m	4.44/3 4.54/1 4.64/1 4.74/2 4.84/XXX
3	Anna Rogowska	Poland	4.64 m
4	Pavla Hamáčková-Rybová	Czech Republic	4.64 m
5	Róża Kasprzak	Poland	4.44 m
5	Fabiana Murer	Brazil	4.44 m
7	Joanna Piwowarska	Poland	4.44 m
8	Anastasija Reiberger	Germany	4.43 m

The 2008 Pedro's Cup indoor competition was held in Bydgoszcz on 20 February 2008.^[7][8]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's high jump	Yaroslav Rybakov  Russia	2.34 =MR	Aleksey Dmitrik  Russia	2.30	Tomasz Janku  Poland Jaroslav Bába  Russia	2.24
Women's pole vault	Svetlana Feofanova  Russia	4.71	Yelena Isinbayeva  Russia Monika Pyrek  Poland	2.30	Not awarded

The 2009 Pedro's Cup indoor competition was held in Bydgoszcz, 10 February 2009.^[9] This competition featured men's shot put for the first time.^[10][11]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's high jump	Tora Harris  United States	2.32	Konstadinos Baniotis  Greece	2.24	Artsiom Zaitsau  Belarus	2.24
Men's shot put	Christian Cantwell  United States	21.47	Tomasz Majewski  Poland	20.83	Andrei Mikhnevich  Belarus	20.06
Women's pole vault	Monika Pyrek  Poland	4.71	Anna Rogowska  Poland	4.71	Joanna Piwowarska  Poland	4.51

Men's indoor meeting records of the Pedro's Cup

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Place	Ref.	Video
60 m	6.47	Kim Collins	Saint Kitts and Nevis	17 February 2015	Łódź	[12]
60 m hurdles	7.45	Orlando Ortega	Cuba	17 February 2015	Łódź	[13]
High jump	2.34 m	Linus Thörnblad	Sweden	14 February 2007	Bydgoszcz	[14]
		Yaroslav Rybakov	Russia	20 February 2008	Bydgoszcz
Pole vault	6.08 m	Renaud Lavillenie	France	31 January 2014	Bydgoszcz	[15]	[1]
Shot put	21.80 m	Ryan Whiting	United States	17 February 2015	Łódź	[16]
Weight throw	23.22 m	Pawel Fajdek	Poland	31 January 2014	Bydgoszcz	[17]

Women's indoor meeting records of the Pedro's Cup

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Place	Ref.
60 m	7.15	Ewa Swoboda	Poland	5 February 2016	Łódź	[18]
60 m hurdles	7.97	Alina Talay	Belarus	5 February 2016	Łódź	[19]
High jump	1.98 m	Kamila Lićwinko	Poland	17 February 2015	Łódź	[20]
Pole vault	4.84 m	Yelena Isinbayeva	Russia	14 February 2007	Bydgoszcz	[21]

• Pedro's Cup web site
• Forsport