Aneta Pastuszka-Konieczna

Aneta Konieczna
Full name	Aneta Regina Pastuszka-Konieczna
nation	Poland
birthday	May 11, 1978
place of birth	Krosno Odrzańskie ,  Poland
size	168 cm
Weight	73 kg
Career
discipline	Canoe racing
Boat class	K-1 , K-2 , K-4 over 500 m
society	Warta Poznań
Trainer	Dariusz Bresiński (club coach) Tomasz Kryk (national coach)
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 2 × World Cup medals 2 × 5 × 10 × EM medals 6 × 3 × 6 ×
Olympic games silver Beijing 2008 K-2 500 m bronze Athens 2004 K-2 500 m bronze Sydney 2000 K-2 500 m 4th Beijing 2008 K-4 500 m 4th Athens 2004 K-4 500 m 4th Sydney 2000 K-4 500 m World Championship gold Gainesville 2003 K-4 1000 m gold Milan 1999 K-2 500 m silver Zagreb 2005 K-4 500 m silver Gainesville 2003 K-2 200 m silver Poznan 2001 K-2 200 m silver Poznan 2001 K-2 500 m silver Milan 1999 K-2 200 m bronze Szeged 2011 K-2 500 m bronze Szeged 2011 K-1 4 × 200 m bronze Poznan 2010 K-4 500 m bronze Duisburg 2007 K-4 500 m bronze Gainesville 2003 K-1 500 m bronze Gainesville 2003 K-2 200 m bronze Gainesville 2003 K-4 200 m bronze Poznan 2001 K-4 200 m bronze Milan 1999 K-4 500 m bronze Milan 1999 K-4 200 m European Championship gold Szeged 2002 K-2 500m gold Poznan 2000 K-2 500m gold Poznan 2000 K-2 200m gold Zagreb 1999 K-2 200m gold Zagreb 1999 K-2 500m gold Zagreb 1999 K-2 1000m silver Poznan 2004 K-1 200m silver Szeged 2002 K-1 200m silver Szeged 2002 K-2 200m bronze Pontevedra 2007 K-4 500m bronze Poznan 2005 K-4 500m bronze Szeged 2002 K-4 500m bronze Milan 2001 K-2 200m bronze Milan 2001 K-4 200m bronze Poznan 2000 K-2 1000m

Aneta Regina Pastuszka-Konieczna (born May 11, 1978 in Krosno Odrzańskie , Lubusz Voivodeship ) is a Polish canoe racer and five-time participant in the Summer Olympics since 1996 - Atlanta 1996 , Sydney 2000 , Athens 2004 , Beijing 2008 , London 2012 . She starts for the Club Warta Poznań .

Her specialty is the 500 m course in a single kayak (K-1), two-person kayak (K-2) and four-person kayak (K-4).

In addition to the silver medal at the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008, which she won over the 500 m distance together with Beata Mikołajczyk , she won two bronze medals over 500 meters at the Olympics with Beata Sokołowska-Kulesza in Sydney (2000) and Athens (2004) .

She is also a 17-time medalist at canoe racing world championships and 15-time medalist at European championships.

With the Polish team she just missed the podium with fourth places in her Olympic participation in the K-4 in Sydney 2000 , Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 .

Career

Aneta Konieczna first joined the Kanu Sport Club in Gorzów Wielkopolski , where she was trained by Piotr Głażewski . From 2001 to 2012 she was an athlete at KS Poznań until she moved to Warta Posen in April 2012 .

Before the 2012 London Olympics, she was diagnosed with cancer and underwent surgery, which caused her to lose her place in the two-point team.

Honors

Aneta Konieczna received the Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland in gold on November 10, 2000 .

On October 7, 2004 she was honored with the Polish order Polonia Restituta in the knight class and on October 8, 2008 in the officer class.

Web links

• Aneta Pastuszka-Konieczna in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• ICF results list by Aneta Konieczna
• Profile of Aneta Pastuszka-Konieczna on the Official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
• Polish squad of kayakers at the 2012 Olympics on the side of the Polish Olympic Committee
• Biography of Aneta Pastuszka-Konieczna on the website of Polski Komitet Olimpijski (Polish)
• Profile of Aneta Konieczna on Onet.pl

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jacek Paluba: Kajakarstwo: Aneta Konieczna zawodniczką Warty Poznań. In: Głos Wielkopolski. April 19, 2012, accessed January 5, 2013 (Polish). 
2. ↑ Bartosz Gębicz: "Miałam raka, ale rak never miał mnie". Polka chce medalu w Londynie! (No longer available online.) In: Przegladsportowy.pl. July 14, 2012, archived from the original on October 29, 2013 ; Retrieved January 5, 2012 (Polish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. (PDF, 21 KB) In: Monitor Polski 2001 No. 2, poz. 38, Rej. 270/2000. Prezydent Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej: A. Kwaśniewski, November 10, 2000, accessed January 5, 2013 (Polish). 
4. ↑ postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. (PDF, 19 KB) In: Monitor Polski 2005 No. 7, poz. 93, Rej. 235/2004. Prezydent Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej: A. Kwaśniewski, October 7, 2004, accessed January 5, 2013 (Polish). 
5. ↑ postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. (PDF, 21 KB) In: Monitor Polski 2009 No. 25, poz. 339, Rej. 235/2008. Prezydent Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej: L. Kaczyński, October 8, 2008, accessed January 5, 2013 (Polish).