Beata Mikołajczyk

Beata Mikołajczyk
nation	Poland
birthday	October 15, 1985
place of birth	Bydgoszcz ,  Poland
size	170 cm
Weight	68 kg
Career
discipline	Canoe racing
Boat class	Two-person kayak (K-2), four-person kayak (K-4)
society	UKS Kopernik Bydgoszcz
Trainer	Wiesław Rakowski (club coach) Tomasz Kryk (national coach)
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 2 × World Cup medals 1 × 2 × 3 × EM medals 4 × 6 × 2 ×
Olympic games silver Beijing 2008 K-2 500 m bronze London 2012 K-2 500 m bronze Rio de Janeiro 2016 K-2 500 m 4th Beijing 2008 K-4 500 m 4th London 2012 K-4 500 m World Championship gold Dartmouth 2009 K-2 1000 m silver 2013 Duisburg K-2 200 m silver 2014 Moscow K-4 500 m bronze Szeged 2011 K-2 500 m bronze 2013 Duisburg K-2 500 m bronze 2014 Moscow K-2 500 m European Championship gold Poznan 2005 K-4 1000 m gold Zagreb 2012 K-2 1000 m gold 2013 Montemor-o-Velho K-2 1000 m gold 2013 Montemor-o-Velho K-2 500 m silver Poznan 2004 K-1 1000 m silver Račice 2006 K-1 500 m silver Milan 2008 K-4 1000 m silver Belgrade 2011 K-2 500 m silver 2014 Brandenburg K-2 500 m silver 2014 Brandenburg K-4 500 m bronze Poznan 2005 K-4 500 m bronze Trasona 2010 K-1 1000 m

Beata Mikołajczyk (born October 15, 1985 in Bydgoszcz , Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship ) is a Polish canoe racer and participant in the 2012 Olympic Games in London . She starts for the UKS Kopernik Bydgoszcz club . Her specialty is the 500 m sprint in K-1 , K-2 and K-4 , but she also competes over the long distance of 1000 m. She had her first start in the Polish national team in June 2001 at an international competition in Bochum .

Career

Her greatest successes are a silver medal at the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008 in K-2 with Aneta Konieczna and a bronze medal at the Olympic Games in London 2012 in K-2 with Karolina Naja , each over 500 m. In both Beijing 2008 and London 2012, she and the team in the K-4 over 500 m with fourth places each missed further Olympic medals. At the 2011 World Championships in Szeged ( Hungary ) she was third in the K-2 over 500 m, at the 2009 World Championships in Dartmouth ( Canada ) she won gold. At the European Championships in 2012, she won the K-2 class over 1000 m. She was able to defend this title at the European Championships in 2013, where she also won gold over 500 meters in the K-2. At the 2013 World Championships in Duisburg , she won silver over 200 meters and bronze over 500 meters in a two-man kayak with Karolina Naja. The following year at the World Championships in Moscow , the two thirds were over 500 meters. Beata Mikołajczyk also won a silver medal in a four-person kayak over 500 meters with Naja, Edyta Dzieneszewska and Marta Walczykiewicz .

Others

Beata Mikołajczyk studied at the University of Economy, Bydgoszcz and graduated in Recreation Management - Tourism, she lives in Lipniki (near Bydgoszcz).

Awards

On October 8, 2008 she was awarded the Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland in gold for her sporting achievements by decision of the President .

Web links

• Beata Mikołajczyk in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• ICF Athlete Bio by Beata Mikołajczyk
• Profile of Beata Mikołajczyk on the Official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games (English)
• Polish squad of kayakers at the 2012 Olympics on the side of the Polish Olympic Committee
• Sports biography of Beata Mikołajczyk on the website of Polski Komitet Olimpijski (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ K4 W 500 results.imas-sport.com. Retrieved November 14, 2014.
2. ↑ Homepage of Beata Mikołajczyk  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Polish / English)  
3. ↑ 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).