Joanna Skowroń

Joanna Skowroń
Full name	Joanna Paulina Skowroń
nation	Poland
birthday	April 16, 1979
place of birth	Gorzów Wielkopolski ,  Poland
size	166 cm
Weight	62 kg
Career
discipline	Canoe racing
Boat class	K-1 , K-2 , K-4 , 200 m, 500 m, 1000 m
society	MKKS-MOS Gorzów Wielkopolski
Trainer	Krystyna Głażewska (club coach) Peter Głażewski (national coach)
status	unknown
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 5 × 5 × EM medals 1 × 3 × 2 ×
Olympic games 4th Sydney 2000 K-4 500 m 4th Athens 2004 K-4 500 m World Championship silver Poznan 2001 K-4 1000 m bronze Poznan 2001 K-4 0200 m gold Seville 2002 K-4 1000 m silver Seville 2002 K-2 0200 m silver Gainesville 2003 K-4 0500 m bronze Gainesville 2003 K-4 0200 m bronze Gainesville 2003 K-2 0500 m silver Zagreb 2005 K-4 0200 m silver Zagreb 2005 K-4 0500 m bronze Zagreb 2005 K-2 1000 m European Championship silver Milan 2001 K-2 1000 m bronze Milan 2001 K-4 0200 m gold Szeged 2002 K-2 0500 m silver Szeged 2002 K-2 0200 m silver Szeged 2002 K-2 1000 m bronze Szeged 2002 0500 m

Joanna Paulina Skowroń (born April 16, 1979 in Gorzów Wielkopolski , German: Landsberg an der Warthe, Lebus Voivodeship ) is a Polish canoe racer and participant in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and 2004 in Athens . She starts for the MKKS-MOS Gorzów Wielkopolski club .

Career

Joanna Skowroń started canoeing in sixth grade. She made her debut in the national team of Poland at the 1998 World Championships in Szeged (5th in the K-4 200 m).

At the European Championships in Zagreb in 1999 , she was 6th over 200m and 7th over 500m in K-4. At the European Championships in Poznan in 2000 she was fourth in the K-4 with the Polish team, also over the distances of 200 m and 500 m. At the European Championships in Milan the following year , she won the bronze medal in K-4 over 200 m, in K2 over 1000 m silver in a duet with Beata Sokołowska , with whom she was fourth over 500 m.

At the 2001 World Championships in Poznan she won a silver medal with Karolina Sadalska , Aneta Białkowska and Dorota Kuczkowska over 1000 m and a bronze medal with Karolina Sadalska, Aneta Pastuszka and Dorota Kuczkowska over the distance of 200 m.

In the following year she won gold in the 1000 m gold with Aneta Pastuszka, Karolina Sadalska and Aneta Białkowska at the 2002 World Cup in Seville and silver with Aneta Pastuszka in the 200 m silver. At the European Championships in 2002 in Szeged , Hungary , she won her first European Championship. In addition to gold in two with Aneta Pastuszka over 500 m, she won a silver medal over 200 m and with Aneta Białkowska also silver over 1000 m. A bronze medal over 500 m completed the medal blessing.

She won further world championship medals in 2003 in Gainesville (Georgia) with silver in the K-4 over 500 m with Karolina Sadalska, Małgorzata Czajczyńska and Aneta Białkowska and bronze over 200 m with Karolina Sadalska, Aneta Pastuszka and Beata Sokołowska-Kulesza and in two with Beata Sokołowska -Kulesza over 500 m.

Both in 2004 and 2005 she could not achieve a place on the podium in her European Championship appearances.

She then won silver and bronze again at the 2005 World Championships in Zagreb : second over 200 m with Iwona Pyzalska , Małgorzata Czajczyńska and Beata Sokołowska-Kulesza, second over 500 m with Aneta Białkowska, Aneta Konieczna and Iwona Pyzalska and third over 1000 m with Aneta Białkowska.

Joanna Skowroń is multiple Polish champion in the disciplines K-2 200 m (1998, 2001), K-2 500 m (2001, 2002), K-2 1000 m (2001, 2002), K-4 200 m (1998, 1999, 2000), K-4 500 m (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000).

During her participation in the 2000 Olympic Games in the K-4 with Karolina Sadalska , Małgorzata Czajczyńska and Aneta Białkowska and the 2004 Olympic Games , she narrowly missed a medal twice with fourth places over the distance of 500 m.

She lives in Gorzów Wielkopolski.

Web links

• Joanna Skowroń in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Sports biography of Joanna Skowroń on the Polski Komitet Olimpijski website .

Individual evidence

1. ^ European Canoe Association, list of results of the EM 1999
2. ^ European Canoe Association, result list of the EM 2000
3. ↑ European Canoe Association, results list of the EM 2001
4. ↑ World Championship 2001, results over 1000 m on the website of EKRV Donau Linz Kayak
5. ↑ World Championship 2001, results over 200m on the website of EKRV Donau Linz Kayak
6. ^ European Canoe Association, results list of the EM 2002
7. ^ European Canoe Association, result list of the EM 2004
8. ^ European Canoe Association, results list of the EM 2005
9. ↑ 34th Flatwater Racing World Championship 2005, Results. (PDF 2.56 MB) International Canoe Federation, August 28, 2005, accessed January 10, 2013 (English).