Joanna Linkiewicz

Joanna Linkiewicz
nation	Poland
birthday	2nd May 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Wroclaw , Poland
size	168 cm
Weight	55 kg
Career
discipline	400 m hurdles
Best performance	55.25 s
society	KS AZS AWF Wrocław
Trainer	Marek Rożej
status	active
Medal table
European championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Indoor European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Universiade 2 × 1 × 0 ×
European championships silver Amsterdam 2016 400 m hurdles  European Indoor Championships bronze Prague 2015 4 × 400 m  Universiade gold Gwangju 2015 400 m hurdles gold Gwangju 2015 4 × 400 m silver Taipei 2017 400 m hurdles
last change: August 27, 2017

Joanna Linkiewicz (born May 2, 1990 in Wroclaw ) is a Polish athlete who specializes in the 400-meter hurdles.

Career

In 2008 Linkiewicz played an international championship for the first time, as part of the Polish 4 x 400 meter relay at the World Junior Athletics Championships 2008 in Bydgoszcz , Poland . There, however, the season failed in the preliminary round. In 2011 she qualified for the European Athletics U23 Championships in 2011 in Ostrava , where she was eliminated from the 400 meter hurdles in the preliminary round, but only narrowly missed a medal with fourth place in the relay. At the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan , Russia , she took fifth place with the Polish relay team and was eliminated from the preliminary round.

While the indoor season with the Polish relay was not successful and they were eliminated in the preliminary round at the World Indoor Championships, the team showed at the IAAF World Relays 2014, which was held for the first time, and the relay achieved fifth place, as was the case at the 2014 European Athletics Championships in Zurich. Using her individual discipline, she was able to advance to the final and finished eighth there. In the 2015 indoor season she achieved her first medal with the Polish relay team at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Prague, Czech Republic, where they won bronze. At the Summer Universiade in Gwangju , Korea , she won two gold medals, with the relay and over the hurdles. At the World Championships in Beijing both competitions failed in the preliminary round.

In June 2016, Joanna Linkiewicz won the silver medal at the 2016 European Athletics Championships , behind Sara Slott Petersen . She improved throughout the season and reached the semifinals of the Olympics . In 2017 she won the silver medal behind the Italian Ayomide Folorunso at the World Student Games in Taipei .

Placements

Olympic games

• 2016 : Semi-final 10th with 55.35 s

World championships

• 2015 : Preliminary round 25th with 56.51 s

European championships

• 2014 : Final 8th with 56.59 s
• 2016 : Final 2nd with 55.33 s

Top performances

• 400 meters: 53.72 s, on June 15, 2013 in Szczecin
  • Hall: 53.41 s, on February 18, 2018 in Toruń
• 400 meter hurdles: 55.25 s, on May 28, 2016 in Warsaw

Web links

• Joanna Linkiewicz in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.european-athletics.org/competitions/european-athletics-championships/history/year=2014/results/index.html#400%20m%20hurdles%20WomenFinal
2. ↑ https://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-championships/15th-iaaf-world-championships-4875/results/women/400-metres-hurdles/heats/result
3. ↑ https://www.iaaf.org/competitions/olympic-games/the-xxxi-olympic-games-5771/results/women/400-metres-hurdles/semi-final/result