Marta Walczykiewicz

Marta Walczykiewicz
nation	Poland
birthday	August 1, 1987
place of birth	Kalisz ,  Poland
size	165 cm
Weight	62 kg
Career
discipline	Canoe racing
Boat class	Single kayak (K-1), two-person kayak (K-2), four-person kayak (K-4)
society	KTW Kalisz
Trainer	Zbigniew Walczykiewicz (club coach) Radoslaw Jackowski (dw.pl, 13 Feb. 2012) Tomasz Kryk (national coach)
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 8 × 2 × EM medals 1 × 4 × 2 × Medals European Games 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver Rio de Janeiro 2016 K-1 200m  European Games gold Baku 2015 K-1 200m World Championship gold Moscow 2014 K-1 4x200m silver Dartmouth 2009 K-1 200m silver Poznan 2010 K-2 200m silver Szeged 2011 K-1 200m silver Duisburg 2013 K-1 200m silver Duisburg 2013 K-1 4x200m silver Moscow 2014 K-1 200m silver Moscow 2014 K-4 500m silver Milan 2015 K-1 200m bronze Duisburg 2007 K-2 200m bronze Szeged 2011 K-1 4x200m European Championship gold Montemor-o-Velho 2013 K-1 200m silver Milan 2008 K-2 200m silver Milan 2008 K-2 1000m silver Zagreb 2012 K-1 200m silver Trasona 2010 K-1 200m silver Brandenburg 2014 K-4 500m bronze Trasona 2010 K-2 500m bronze Brandenburg 2009 K-4 500m

Marta Anna Walczykiewicz (born August 1, 1987 in Kalisz , Greater Poland Voivodeship ) is a Polish canoe racer .

She starts for the KTW Kalisz club . Her specialty is the 200 m sprint in a single kayak (K1). Her greatest successes are the silver medals at the Canoe Racing World Championships 2009 in Dartmouth (Canada) in K-1, 2010 in Posen (Poland) in K-2 with Ewelina Wojnarowska and 2011 in Szeged (Hungary) in K-1, where she also achieved bronze with the Polish K-1 squadron.

At European Championships and World Cups from 2009 to 2012, she was able to stand on the podium several times and win World Cups.

When she took part in the Olympics in London in 2012 , she only reached seventh place in the K-1 over 200 m , after setting the fastest time in the semifinals. In the four-person kayak over 500 m , she and her team just missed the bronze medal. At the 2015 European Games in Baku , she won the gold medal over 200 meters in K1.

Web links

• Marta Walczykiewicz in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile of Marta Walczykiewicz on the Official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
• Polish squad of kayakers at the 2012 Olympics on the side of the Polish Olympic Committee