Beata Mikołajczyk (Polish pronunciation: [bɛˈata mikɔˈwajt͡ʂɨk]; born 15 October 1985) is a Polish canoe sprinter. She competed at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics, in two events for each games; she won one silver and two bronze medals and placed fourth two times.[1][3]
Career
Mikołajczyk took up canoeing in 1996 in her native Bydgoszcz.[2] She won the silver medal in K-2 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with Aneta Pastuszka-Konieczna. She won the bronze medal in K-2 500 m event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London with Karolina Naja. She also won a gold in the K-2 1000 m event at the 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Dartmouth.
In June 2015, she competed in the inaugural European Games for Poland in canoe sprint, more specifically, Women's K-4 500m with Ewelina Wojnarowska, Edyta Dzieniszewska, and Karolina Naja. She earned a bronze medal.[2]
Awards
For her sport achievements, she received:
Golden Cross of Merit in 2008.[2]
Knight's Cross Order of Polonia Restituta in 2013.[2]
References
External links
- Beata Mikołajczyk at the International Canoe Federation
- Beata Mikołajczyk at Olympics.com
- Beata Mikołajczyk at Olympic.org (archived)
- Beata Mikołajczyk at the Polski Komitet Olimpijski (archive) (in Polish)
- Beata Mikołajczyk at Olympedia
- "Canoe09.ca profile". Archived from the original on 26 March 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
