Polish canoeist (born 1985)
Beata Mikołajczyk
Mikołajczyk in 2008
Born 15 October 1985 (1985-10-15 ) (age 38)Bydgoszcz , Poland Height 170 cm (5 ft 7 in)[ 1] Weight 68 kg (150 lb) Sport Canoe sprint Club UKS Kopernik[ 2] [ 3] Coached by Wieslaw Rakowski (club) Tomas Kryk (national)[ 2]
Beata Mikołajczyk (Polish pronunciation: [bɛˈata mikɔˈwajt͡ʂɨk] ; born 15 October 1985) is a Polish canoe sprinter . 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:
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