Anna Kiełbasińska

Anna Kiełbasińska
Kiełbasińska at the 2023 European Indoor Championships in Istanbul
Personal information
Born (1990-06-26) 26 June 1990 (age 34)
Warsaw, Poland
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight55 kg (121 lb)
Sport
CountryPoland
SportAthletics
EventSprinting
ClubSKLA Sopot (2016–)
AZS-AWF Warsaw(2009–2015)
Polonia Warsaw (2005–2008)[1]
Coached byJarosław Skrzyszowski
(Laurent Meuwly)
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
  • 400 m: 50.28 (2022)
  • Indoors
  • 400 m: 51.10 (2022)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Poland
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo 4×400 m relay
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2019 Doha 4×400 m relay
European Games
Silver medal – second place 2023 Kraków-Małopolska 4×400 m mixed
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2022 Munich 4×100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2022 Munich 4×400 m relay
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Munich 400 m
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Glasgow 4×400 m relay
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Istanbul 400 m
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Istanbul 4×400 m relay
World Relay Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Yokohama 4×400 m relay
European Team Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Bydgoszcz 4×400 m relay
European U23 Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Ostrava 200 m
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Ostrava 100 m
European U20 Championships
Silver medal – second place 2009 Novi Sad 4×100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Novi Sad 200 m
Military World Games
Gold medal – first place 2019 Wuhan 4×400 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2015 Mungyeong 200 m
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Wuhan 200 m
Kiełbasińska at the Leichtathletik Gala in Linz, Austria in 2018

Anna Kiełbasińska (pronounced [ˈanna kʲɛwbaˈɕij̃ska]; born 26 June 1990)[2] is a Polish sprinter who competed occasionally also in hurdling events. She won the bronze medal in the 400 metres as well as silver medals in the 4 x 100 m and 4 x 400 m relays at the 2022 European Championships. Kiełbasińska earned bronze for the 400 m at the 2023 European Indoor Championships. She won several major medals as part of Polish 4 x 400 m relay teams and also individual medals at European Under-20 and U23 Championships.

Kiełbasińska represented Poland at the Summer Olympics in 2012, 2016 and 2020, and at the World Athletics Championships in 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2022. She won more than 10 individual Polish national titles.

Career

Anna Kiełbasińska won the gold medal for the women's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2019 European Indoor Championships in Glasgow, alongside Iga Baumgart-Witan, Małgorzata Hołub-Kowalik and Justyna Święty-Ersetic.

At 2019 World Athletics Championships held in Doha, she won the silver medal for the women's 4 x 400 m relay, running in the heats. The team consisted of Hołub-Kowalik, Patrycja Wyciszkiewicz, Święty-Ersetic and Baumgart-Witan.

Just five months before the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021, she underwent surgery to fix a broken navicular bone in her ankle. The third-grade fracture was fixed with two screws.[3] Despite this, at the Games she helped Poland to victory in the heats of the women’s 4 x 400 m relay, earning the silver medal alongside Baumgart-Witan, Hołub-Kowalik, Święty-Ersetic and Natalia Kaczmarek.[4]

In February 2022, Kiełbasińska set a new Polish indoor record in the 400 metres in a time of 51.10 seconds at a meeting in Ostrava, Czech Republic.[5][6]

She is based in Poland, but joins Dutch athletes, who are under the guidance of coach Laurent Meuwly, on training camps about four times a year.[3]

Kiełbasińska suffers from alopecia areata, an auto-immune disease.[7]

Statistics

International competitions

Representing  Poland
Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
2007 European Junior Championships Hengelo, Netherlands 5th 4 × 400 m relay 3:39.26
2008 World Junior Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland 7th 200m 23.95
6th (h) 4 × 100 m relay 44.73
2009 European Junior Championships Novi Sad, Serbia 3rd 200 m 23.75
2nd 4 × 100 m relay 45.12
2011 European U23 Championships Ostrava, Czech Republic 3rd 100 m 11.77
1st 200 m 23.23
7th 4 × 100 m relay 44.67
World Championships Daegu, South Korea 25th (h) 200 m 23.34
– 4 × 100 m relay DNF
2012 Olympic Games London, United Kingdom 31st (h) 200 m 23.67
2014 World Indoor Championships Sopot, Poland 17th (sf) 60 m i 7.31
2015 World Championships Beijing, China 21st (sf) 200 m 23.07
11th (h) 4 × 100 m relay 43.20
Military World Games Mungyeong, South Korea 2nd 200 m 23.33
2016 European Championships Amsterdam, Netherlands 14th (sf) 200 m 23.36
7th 4 × 100 m relay 43.24
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 25th (h) 200 m 22.95
12th (h) 4 × 100 m relay 43.33
2017 World Championships London, United Kingdom 25th (h) 200 m 23.48
DécaNation Angers, France 2nd 100 m 11.46
2nd 200 m 23.68
2018 World Indoor Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom 15th (sf) 60 m i 7.23
European Championships Berlin, Germany 14th (sf) 200 m 23.29
6th 4 × 100 m relay 43.34
2019 European Indoor Championships Glasgow, United Kingdom 1st 4 × 400 m relay i 3:28.77
World Relays Yokohama, Japan 1st 4 × 400 m relay 3:27.49
World Championships Doha, Qatar 34th (h) 400 m 52.25
2nd 4 × 400 m relay 3:25.781
Military World Games Wuhan, China 3rd 200 m 23.33
1st 4 × 400 m relay 3:27.84
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 2nd 4 x 400 m relay 3:23.101
2022 World Championships Eugene, OR, United States 8th 400 m 50.81
European Championships Munich, Germany 3rd 400 m 50.29
2nd 4 × 100 m relay 42.61 NR
2nd 4 × 400 m relay 3:21.68 SB
2023 European Indoor Championships Istanbul, Turkey 3rd 400 m i 51.25 SB
3rd 4 x 400 m relay i 3:29.31

1Time from the heats; Kiełbasińska was replaced in the final.

Personal bests

National titles

References

  1. ^ "Anna K – Athlete profile". Polish Athletics. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Anna KIEŁBASIŃSKA – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Archived from the original on 24 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  3. ^ a b Dennehy, Cathal (17 March 2023). "Anna Kielbasinska: "I want to break the 50-second barrier"". European Athletics. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
  4. ^ Phillips, Mitch (7 August 2021). "Athletics-Eleven medals for Felix as stellar U.S. team take 4x400m glory". Reuters. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  5. ^ "Nowy halowy rekord Polski w biegu na 400 m! Wielka chwila Anny Kiełbasińskiej" (in Polish). Retrieved 3 February 2022.
  6. ^ "Kielbasinska clocks world-leading 51.10 in Ostrava". World Athletics. 3 February 2022. Archived from the original on 3 February 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  7. ^ Anna Kiełbasińska ma łysienie plackowate. Jastrzab Zdrowie (2 March 2016). Retrieved on 2016-07-30.
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