Katarzyna Kłys

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Katarzyna Kłys (2014)

Katarzyna Kłys (* 23. April 1986 in Bielsko-Biała as Katarzyna Piłocik ) is a former Polish judoka who was 2014 World Cup third parties.

Athletic career

Katarzyna Piłocik was fifth at the European Cadet Championships in 2002 in the weight class up to 57 kilograms. From 2004 she fought in the middleweight division, the weight class up to 70 kilograms. In September 2004 she took second place behind the Hungarian Anett Mészáros at the Junior European Championships . A month later she won a bronze medal at the Junior World Championships. Her breakthrough among adults came at the 2007 European Championships in Belgrade when she won the silver medal behind the French Gévrise Émane . At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, she lost in the first round after 2:12 minutes against Ronda Rousey from the United States.

In October 2009 Katarzyna Kłys won her first Polish championship title, more followed from 2010 to 2012 and 2014 and 2015. At the end of 2011 she took third place at the Grand Slam tournament in Tokyo . At the European Championships in 2012 in Chelyabinsk she reached the final with a victory over the Slovenian Raša Sraka , in the final she was defeated by the Dutch Edith Bosch . At the 2012 Olympic Games in London, she was eliminated in the first round like four years earlier. This time she lost to Chinese Chen Fei after 2:16 minutes .

After a maternity break, Katarzyna Kłys returned from the judo mat in 2014. At the European Championships in Montpellier , she defeated Gévrise Émane in her first fight, but was eliminated in the round of 16 against the Austrian Bernadette Graf . Two weeks later she finished third in the Grand Slam tournament in Baku . At the World Championships in Chelyabinsk, she lost in the quarterfinals to the Croatian Barbara Matić . With victories over the Canadian Kelita Zupancic and the Dutch Kim Polling, Kłys won a bronze medal. In November she finished third in the Grand Slam tournament in Abu Dhabi .

The 2015 European Championships were held as part of the 2015 European Games in Baku. Katarzyna Kłys lost in the quarterfinals to Bernadette Graf, but reached the battle for bronze with a win over Juliane Robra from Switzerland. After her loss to the German Szaundra Diedrich she finished fifth. At the World Championships in Astana , she was eliminated in the round of 16 against Kim Polling. In the team competition, the Polish women won the silver medal. At the end of October, as in the previous year, she won third place in Abu Dhabi. In 2016 she retired from the European Championships in Kazan in her first fight against the Hungarian Szabina Gercsák . The Polish women won the title in the team competition. At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , Katarzyna Kłys won in her first fight against the Uzbek Gulnoza Matniyazova , in the round of 16 she was defeated by the Spanish María Bernabéu . Kłys played the last major tournament of her career in front of a Polish crowd at the 2017 European Championships in Warsaw. After losing to Barbara Matić in the quarterfinals, she reached the battle for bronze with a win over Aleksandra Samardžić from Bosnia-Herzegovina. After her loss to French Marie-Ève ​​Gahié , she finished her career in fifth place.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ The marriage with the judoka Artur Kłys probably took place in 2009.
  2. ↑ Fight time according to SportsReference
  3. ↑ Duration of the fight according to the SportsReference entry by Chen Fei
  4. ↑ a b match balance at judoinside.com
personal data
SURNAME Kłys, Katarzyna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piłocik, Katarzyna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish judoka
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielsko-Biała