Katarzyna Kociołek

Katarzyna Kociołek
portrait
birthday	March 11, 1995
place of birth	Łask, Poland
Partner	2011–2012 Karolina Baran 2012–2016 Jagoda Gruszczyńska 2013 Daria Paszek 2014–2017 Dorota Strąg 2016 Martyna Wardak 2017 Aleksandra Gromadowska since 2017 Kinga Wojtasik
World ranking	Position 19
successes
2011 - Youth World Champion 2011 - Third European Championship U18 and U20 2012 - European Champion U18 and U20 2013 - World Champion U21 2014 - Vice European Champion U22 2015 - Vice European Champion U22 2016 - Vice European Champion U22
(As of June 9, 2019)

Katarzyna Kociołek (born March 11, 1995 in Łask ) is a Polish beach volleyball player .

Career

Kociołek took part in 2010 with Marzena Kedzior at the U18 European Championships in Porto and finished in 13th place. In 2011 she formed a duo with Karolina Baran . Kociołek / Baran took part in a tournament of the FIVB World Tour for the first time at the Mysłowice Open . Then they won the World Youth Championship in Umag . At the European Championships of the U20 in Tel Aviv and the U18 in Vilnius they were each third. In 2012 they reached the final of the Youth World Cup in Larnaka and were defeated by the Lithuanian duo Dumbauskaitė / Povilaitytė At the U18 European Championship in Brno , Kociołek won the title with Jagoda Gruszczyńska . With a final victory against the German Krebs / Wlk they achieved the same success at the U20 tournament in Hartberg . Then the duo took part in the Junior World Championships in Halifax and finished ninth. In 2013 Kociołek formed a new duo with Daria Paszek . Kociołek / Paszek finished ninth in the U23 World Cup in Mysłowice. With a wildcard they qualified for the World Championships in Stare Jabłonki , but were eliminated without a win after the preliminary round. With Gruszczyńska, Kociołek was U21 world champion in Umag in 2013.

From 2014 to 2016, Kociołek reached the final of the U22 European Championship three times in a row. In 2017 she won the Smart Beach Cup in Duisburg together with Aleksandra Gromadowska after six games in qualification and seven games in the main draw. Since the end of 2017, Kociołek has formed a new duo with Kinga Wojtasik .

Web links

• Profile at FIVB (English)
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FIVB world rankings (as of June 3, 2019)
2. ^ Karolina Baran i Katarzyna Kociołek ponownie na podium mistrzostw świata. (No longer available online.) Sportowa Lodz, July 15, 2012, archived from the original on February 4, 2016 ; Retrieved June 13, 2013 (Polish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Bogdan Lipowski: Kolejne sukcesy łaskowian w siatkówce plażowej. Łask online, August 20, 2012, accessed June 13, 2013 (Polish). 
4. ↑ Katarzyna Kociołek: Never spodziewałam się takiego wyniku. (No longer available online.) Beachvolleyball.pl, August 22, 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 13, 2013 (Polish).  ( 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.    
5. ^ DVV Beach volleyball - smart beach cup Duisburg. Retrieved July 2, 2017 .