Kamila Skolimowska

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Kamila Skolimowska (born November 4, 1982 in Warsaw , † February 18, 2009 in Vila Real de Santo António , Portugal ) was a Polish hammer thrower and Olympic champion .

At the age of 13, Skolimowska became Polish champion in the athletics discipline, which was still young for women, with a national record of 47.66 m. The following year she became Junior European Champion and in 1998 she finished seventh at the European Championships in Budapest . In 1999 she set her first of five junior world records with 66.62 m in Warsaw and shortly thereafter became junior world champion.

Shortly before the Olympic Games in 2000 , she threw the 70 meters for the first time. In Sydney she rose to 71.16 m and won the gold medal with a lead of almost one and a half meters over Olga Kusenkowa (RUS) and almost two meters over Kirsten Münchow (GER). She was the youngest Olympic champion of these games.

At the 2001 World Athletics Championships in Edmonton she was fourth, and at the European Championships in Munich in 2002 she won silver.

In 2003 she was eighth at the World Championships in Paris , in 2004 fifth at the Olympic Games in Athens and in 2005 seventh at the World Championships in Helsinki as well as the winner of the Universiade .

At the European Championships in Gothenburg she won the bronze medal in 2006, and on May 11, 2007 she set her 17th Polish record with 76.83 m. With this distance she was last (February 2009) fourth in the all-time world rankings. At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka , she came in fourth. At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, she qualified for the final, in which, however, she did not succeed in a valid attempt.

The grave of Kamila Skolimowska

The following year, she died unexpectedly of a pulmonary embolism in a training camp in Vila Real de Santo António .

Kamila Skolimowska was 1.80 m tall and weighed 105 kg. Her father was the former weightlifter and Olympian Robert Skolimowski , her mother Teresa Wenta was a successful handball player. From 2004 until her death, Kamila Skolimowska was employed by the police in Piaseczno . In 2005, she graduated in economics at the University of Warsaw from a master's degree.

Her grave is on the Cmentarz Wojskowy na Powązkach ( German  military cemetery of Powązki ) in the Warsaw district of Wola .

Since 2009, except for 2010, the track and field meeting Warszawski Memoriał Kamili Skolimowskiej has been held in Warsaw in memory of the Olympic champion. It is organized by the Fundacja Kamili Skolimowskiej Foundation . Initially, the event on May 2, 2009 was intended as a one-off event. There were hammer throw competitions for women and men. In 2011 it was continued with additional disciplines. After smaller stadiums, it has been played in the national stadium since 2014 . At the seventh edition on August 28, 2016, Anita Włodarczyk threw the hammer at the world record distance of 82.98 m.

Web links

Commons : Kamila Skolimowska  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ IAAF: Sydney Olympic champion Skolimowska collapses and dies at age of 26 ( Memento of February 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). February 19, 2009
  2. ^ Spiegel Online : Hammer Throw: Olympic Champion Skolimowska dies at the age of 26 . February 19, 2009
  3. ↑ Die Zeit : Poland mourns: hammer thrower Kamila Skolimowska dies at the age of 26 . February 19, 2009
  4. ↑ fundacjakamili.pl: Warszawski Memoriał Kamili Skolimowskiej on the website of Fundację Kamili Skolimowskiej (Polish)
  5. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Anita Wlodarczyk knocks out the next world record Article from August 28, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Skolimowska, Kamila
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish hammer thrower and Olympic champion
DATE OF BIRTH 4th November 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 2009
Place of death Vila Real de Santo Antonio