Beata Mikołajczyk
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Born | 15 October 1985 Bydgoszcz, Poland | (age 35)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Canoe sprint | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | UKS Kopernik[2][3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Wieslaw Rakowski (club) Tomas Kryk (national)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Beata Mikołajczyk (Polish pronunciation: [bɛˈata mikɔˈwajt͡ʂɨk]; born 15 October 1985) is a Polish sprint canoer. She competed at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics, in two events for each games; she won one silver and two bronze medals and placed fourth two times.[1][3]
Career[]
Mikołajczyk took up canoeing in 1996 in her native Bydgoszcz.[2] She won the silver medal in K-2 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with Aneta Pastuszka-Konieczna. She won the bronze medal in K-2 500 m event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London with Karolina Naja. She also won a gold in the K-2 1000 m event at the 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Dartmouth.
In June 2015, she competed in the inaugural European Games for Poland in canoe sprint, more specifically, Women's K-4 500m with Ewelina Wojnarowska, Edyta Dzieniszewska, and Karolina Naja. She earned a bronze medal.[2]
Awards[]
For her sport achievements, she received:
Golden Cross of Merit in 2008.[2]
Knight's Cross Order of Polonia Restituta in 2013.[2]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Beata Mikolajczyk Archived 26 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine. rio2016.com
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Beata Mikolajczyk Archived 20 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine. nbcolympics.com
- ^ Jump up to: a b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Beata Mikołajczyk". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 March 2009.
External links[]
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- Beata Mikołajczyk at the International Canoe Federation
- Beata Mikołajczyk at the International Olympic Committee
- "Canoe09.ca profile". Archived from the original on 26 March 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
- 1985 births
- Living people
- Canoeists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic canoeists of Poland
- Olympic silver medalists for Poland
- Sportspeople from Bydgoszcz
- Polish female canoeists
- Olympic medalists in canoeing
- Recipients of the Gold Cross of Merit (Poland)
- Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Olympic bronze medalists for Poland
- ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- European Games medalists in canoeing
- Canoeists at the 2015 European Games
- European Games bronze medalists for Poland
- Polish canoeist stubs
- Polish Olympic medalist stubs