Agnieszka Kobus

European Championship runner-up 2016 from left to right: Ciaciuch, Springwald, Leszczyńska, Kobus

Agnieszka Kobus-Zawojska (born August 28, 1990 in Warsaw ) is a Polish rower .

Kobus finished sixth in a double scull at the 2008 Junior World Championships . The following year she rowed in a double scull to ninth place at the U23 World Championships . In 2010 she finished eleventh with the double foursome at the U23 World Championships; At the European Championships 2010 , the Polish double scull with Kobus, Karolina Gniadek , Agata Gramatyka and Natalia Madaj reached fourth place. After an eighth place at the 2011 World Championships , the Polish double scull won with Kobus, Gniadek, Sylwia Lewandowska and Madaj in theEuropean Championships 2011 the silver medal behind the Ukrainians. In 2012, Kobus only competed internationally at the U23 World Championships and finished fourth there with a double scull.

In the following year, she finished fifth at the 2013 European Championships with the double scull. In 2014 the Polish double scull with Agnieszka Kobus, Maria Springwald , Joanna Dittmann and Monika Ciaciuch won the bronze medal at the European Championships in Belgrade . At the 2014 World Championships , the four-man with Sylwia Lewandowska, Joanna Leszczyńska , Springwald and Kobus took eighth place. In 2015, the Polish double scull with Kobus, Leszczyńska, Springwald and Ciaciuch won bronze at the European Championships in front of a home crowd in Poznan. With fourth place at the 2015 World Championships, the Polish double scull qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics. The Polish double scull started the Olympic season with the same line-up as last year with a victory at the Rowing World Cup in Varese. At the European Championships in 2016 , the Polish women won the silver medal behind the German boat. At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the Polish double scull won the bronze medal.

Kobus also rowed in the Polish quad scull in the new Olympic cycle. The quartet of Kobus, Marta Wieliczko , Maria Springwald and Katarzyna Zillmann dominated the Rowing World Cup with three individual victories, but only finished fourth at the European Championships . At the end of the season succeeded behind the Dutch selection of winning the silver medal at the World Championships in Florida. In 2018, the Polish double scull won the title at the European Championships in Glasgow with the same line-up as last year . A month and a half later, the Polish quadruple also won the title at the World Championships in Plovdiv . In 2019, the Polish quadruple finished fourth at the European Championships in Lucerne. Three months later, the Chinese women won the World Championships in Linz ahead of the Polish defending champions.

Web links

• Agnieszka Kobus at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Agnieszka Kobus in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )