Kamila Lićwinko

Kamila Lićwinko
Kamila Lićwinko (2016)
nation	Poland
birthday	March 22, 1986
place of birth	Bielsk Podlaski ,  Poland
size	183 cm
Weight	66 kg
Career
discipline	high jump
Best performance	2.02 m (hall)
society	KS Podlasie Białystok
Trainer	Michał Lićwinko
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Indoor world championships 1 × 0 × 1 × European Indoor Championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Universiade 1 × 0 × 0 ×
World championships bronze London 2017 1.99 m  Indoor world championships gold Sopot 2014 2.00 m bronze Portland 2016 1.96 m  European Indoor Championships bronze Prague 2015 1.94 m  Universiade gold Kazan 2013 1.96 m
last change: August 12, 2017

Kamila Lićwinko , b. Stepaniuk (born March 22, 1986 in Bielsk Podlaski ) is a Polish high jumper .

Athletic career

After Lićwinko, at that time still under her maiden name Stepaniuk, had already indicated her talent with numerous successes in the youth and junior sector, she became the Polish high jump champion in the hall and outdoors in 2009. In the same year she finished eighth at the European Indoor Championships in Turin and entered the World Championships in Berlin , where she missed the qualification for the final.

In the years 2010 to 2012 persistent injury problems prevented her participation in major international events. During this time, Lićwinko concentrated on studying sports science. In 2012 she separated from her long-time coach Janusz Kuczyński. Her later husband Michał Lićwinko took his position. The change of coach turned out to be the right decision. The following year Lićwinko improved the 29-year-old Polish record of Danuta Bułkowska by two centimeters to 1.99 meters. She also won the Universiade in Kazan ahead of the Russian Marija Kutschina and was seventh at the World Championships in Moscow .

On February 8, 2014, Lićwinko won the high jump with music meeting in Arnstadt and was the first Polish woman to cross the 2-meter mark. Shortly afterwards, she celebrated her greatest success by winning the gold medal at the World Indoor Championships in Sopot , where she also reached a height of 2.00 meters. She shared the victory with Marija Kutschina, who was at the same height. At the European Championships in Zurich she failed at the height of 1.94 m and was only ninth with a jump of 1.90 m.

At the Polish Indoor Championships in 2015 in Toruń, she increased her best to 2.02 m and traveled to the European Indoor Championships in Prague as the title favorite . There it failed, however, at the height of 1.97 m and took third place with a jump of 1.94 m. In the outdoor season she celebrated victories at the Polish Championships and the British Athletics Birmingham Grand Prix . At the World Championships in Beijing , she finished fourth.

In 2016 Lićwinko won the bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships in Portland . At 1.96 m she jumped the same height as the athletes Vashti Cunningham from the United States and Ruth Beitia from Spain placed in front of her , but had more failed attempts at the heights before. On June 18, at the Janusz Kusocinski Memorial in Stettin , she set an interim world annual best with 1.99 m. At the beginning of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , this performance made her third on the world's best list of the year. However, she only jumped 1.93 m in the Olympic final and finished ninth. A successful first attempt over the next height of 1.97 m would have been enough to win a medal, but it failed three times.

At the European Indoor Championships 2017 in Belgrade, Lićwinko surprisingly missed the final as ninth in the qualification. For this she achieved her most significant outdoor success to date at the World Championships in London , when she won the bronze medal behind Marija Lassizkene (née Kutschina) and the Ukrainian Julija Levtschenko . In the 2018 season, she was on a pregnancy-related suspension and gave birth to her daughter in September of that year. In 2019 she returned to competition. At the World Championships in Doha , she finished fifth.

Kamila Lićwinko is 1.83 m tall, has a competition weight of 66 kg and starts for KS Podlasie Białystok . She has been married to her trainer Michał Lićwinko since September 2013. In February 2015 she was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland .

Top performances

• High jump: 1.99 m, June 9, 2013, Opole ( Polish record )
• High jump: 1.99 m, August 12, 2017, London ( Polish record set )
  • Hall: 2.02 m, February 21, 2015, Toruń ( Polish record )

Web links

Commons : Kamila Lićwinko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Kamila Lićwinko in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait by Kamila Lićwinko at domtel-sport.pl

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mexico's Rivera flies out to 8.46m, Ibrahimov Games record at World University Games . IAAF. July 13, 2013. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
2. ↑ Ukhov and Dmitrik clear 2.40m in Arnstadt, but the Olympic champion gets the verdict . IAAF. February 8, 2014. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
3. ^ History made and the hurt forgotten for Licwinko and Kuchina . IAAF. March 9, 2014. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
4. ↑ Licwinko, Bascou and Storl shine on the first day of national indoor champs . IAAF. February 21, 2015. Retrieved March 7, 2015.
5. ↑ Jon Mulkeen: Throwers impress at Polish Championships . IAAF. July 12, 2015. Accessed December 21, 2015.
6. ↑ Diamond Race 2015 - Results (PDF; 254 kB) IAAF. September 11, 2015. Accessed December 21, 2015.
7. ↑ Phil Minshull: Report: women's high jump - IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016 . IAAF. March 20, 2016. Retrieved September 5, 2016.
8. ^ Phil Minshull: Wlodarczyk throws 79.61m in Szczecin, Licwinko over world-leading 1.99m . IAAF. June 18, 2016. Retrieved September 5, 2016.
9. ↑ Polska sportsmenka została MAMA ( polish ) Onet. September 19, 2018. Retrieved April 19, 2020.
10. ^ Robert Zwoliński: Kszczot ze Złotym Krzyżem Zasługi ( Polish ) Radio Łódź. February 18, 2015. Accessed December 21, 2015.