Anastazja Kuś

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| name = Anastazja Kuś

| image = Anastazja Kuś 2025 (cropped).jpg

| caption = Anastazja Kuś in 2025

| nationality = Polish

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|2007|5|11|df=yes}}

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| sport = Athletics

| event = Sprint

| pb = 400m 51.89 (Banská Bystrica, 2024)
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400m: 53.42 (Toruń, 2025)

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Anastazja Kuś (born 11 May 2007) is a Polish sprinter. She competed for Poland at the 2024 Olympic Games.{{cite web |title=Anastazja Kuś |website=World Athletics |accessdate=14 July 2024 |url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/poland/anastazja-kus-14954279}}

Early and personal life

She spent part of her childhood in Istanbul, where her father, professional footballer Marcin Kuś, was playing at the time.{{cite web |url=https://przegladsportowy.onet.pl/lekkoatletyka/polska-nadzieja-jechalysmy-samochodem-otworzylam-internet-i-poplynely-lzy/x3rrqsj |website=przegladsportowy.net |accessdate=14 July 2024 |title=Polish Hope. "We were driving, I opened the internet and tears flowed" |date=9 July 2023}} She took part in gymnastics and tennis as a youth before focusing on athletics.{{cite web |url=https://www.olsztyn.com.pl/artykul,anastazja-kus-zwycieza-w-mariborze-kim-jest-16-letnia-rewelacja-z-olsztyna-ktora-podbija-lekkoatletyczny-swiat,38110.html |website=Olsztyn.com |accessdate=14 July 2024 |title=Anastazja Kuś zwycięża w Mariborze. Kim jest 16-letnia rewelacja z Olsztyna, która podbija lekkoatletyczny świat? |date=27 July 2023}} She is also a keen pianist.{{cite web |url=https://gk24.pl/lekkoatletyka-byly-pilkarz-reprezentacji-polski-jest-dumny-corka-najszybsza-w-europie-corka-smiga-ojciec-ganial-z-pilka-numer-1/ar/c2-17753943 |website=gk24.pl |accessdate=14 July 2024 |title=Athletics. Former Polish national footballer is proud! Daughter the fastest in Europe. Daughter flies, father chased with the ball. Number 1 is Kuś |first=Paul |last=Wisniewski |date=27 July 2023}} As of 2023, she is enrolled in Szkola w Chmurze (on-line school for homeschoolers). In February 2025, she was announced as being the subject of the documentary series On Fire, produced by European Athletics.{{cite web|website=European Athletics|url= https://www.european-athletics.com/news/six-months-to-tampere-2025-one-lap-prospects-feature-on-my-fire-documentary|accessdate=25 Feb 2025|first=Chris|last=Broadbent|title= Six months to Tampere 2025! One lap prospects feature on My Fire documentary|date=7 February 2025}}

Career

She broke her personal bests in the 100, 200 and 400 metres in 2023, winning the Polish under-18 title over 400 metres.{{cite web |url=https://www.uwmfm.pl/news/1687/czytaj/11842/anastazja-kus-zlota-medalistka-eyof-maribor-2023.html |website=uwmfm.pl |accessdate=14 July 2024 |title=Anastazja Kuś is the gold medalist of EYOF Maribor 2023 |date=28 July 2023}} She won a gold medal at the 2023 European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) in Maribor in 2023.{{cite web |url=https://przegladsportowy.onet.pl/ofsajd/17-letnia-polka-zachwyca-jej-ojciec-jest-bardzo-znany/9f44mwq |website=przegladsportowy.net |accessdate=14 July 2024 |title=17-year-old Polish girl is amazing! Her father is very famous |date=28 June 2024}} She competed at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships in Jerusalem.{{cite web |url=https://bieganie.pl/sport/anastazja-kus-od-poczatku-staramy-sie-podchodzic-do-sportu-profesjonalnie/ |website=bieganie.pl |accessdate=14 July 2024 |title=Anastazja Kuś: From the very beginning we have tried to approach sports professionally |date=26 September 2023}}

She is a member of AZS UWM Olsztyn and was part of their club relay team that won the gold medal at the Polish Senior Indoor Championships in the 4x400 meters in February 2024. Later that year, racing in Toruń she broke the national record for under 18s, running 54.15 seconds. She lowered it further to 52.26 seconds at the Polish Outdoor Championships in Bydgoszcz in June 2024, and in the final she placed sixth overall.{{cite web |url=https://gazetaolsztynska.pl/1070938,Czy-biegaczka-z-Olsztyna-Anastazja-Kus-pojedzie-do-Paryza.html |website=Gazetaolsztynska.pl |accessdate=14 July 2024 |title=Will the runner from Olsztyn Anastazja Kuś go to Paris? |date=12 July 2024}} In July 2024, she won the Polish U18 Championships with a time of 52.68 seconds in Lublin.{{cite web |url=https://uwmfm.pl/news/1687/czytaj/13912/anastazja-kus-i-iwo-urbanowicz-z-medalami-lekkoatletycznych-mp-do-lat-18.html |date=8 July 2024 |title=Anastazja Kuś and Iwo Urbanowicz with medals in the Polish Athletics Championships under 18 |website=uwmfm.pl |accessdate=14 July 2024}}

She ran a personal best, national under-18 record and championship record 51.89 for the 400 metres to win gold at the 2024 European Athletics U18 Championships in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia on 20 July 2024.{{cite web |url=https://www.european-athletics.com/news/italian-and-polish-doubles-and-four-championship-bests-in-the-sprints-in-banska-bystrica |website=European Athletics |accessdate=20 July 2024 |date=20 July 2024 |title=Italian and Polish doubles and four championship bests in the sprints in Banska Bystrica}}

She competed in the women's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2024 Paris Olympics.{{cite web|url= https://www.watchathletics.com/page/5862/women-s-4x400m-relay-results-paris-olympic-games-2024-athletics |website=Watch Athletics|accessdate=28 December 2024|title=Women's 4 x 400 Metres Relay - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics|date=10 August 2024}}{{cite web |url=https://sport.tvp.pl/79271601/wyciekl-sklad-polski-na-paryz-w-lekkoatletyce-17-latka-anastazja-kus-w-zespole-pzla/amp |website=sport.tvp.pl |accessdate=14 July 2024 |title=Igrzyska z 17-latką! Wyciekł skład Polski na Paryż [PILNE] |date=12 July 2024}} She was selected for the 4x400m relay team for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025.{{cite web|url= https://sport.tvp.pl/85677223/lekkoatletyczne-hms-skromna-ekipa-ale-kilka-szans-medalowych-bialo-czerwonych|website=Sport.tv.pl|accessdate=19 March 2025|title= Athletics IAAF World Championships. Modest team, but several medal chances for the white and reds|date=19 March 2025}}

References

External links

{{World Athletics|poland/anastazja-kus-14954279}}
{{European Athletics|poland/anastazja-kus-14954279}}
[https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/anastazja-kus_1573127 Anastazja Kuś] at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
{{Olympics.com|anastazja-kus}}
{{PKOl profile|anastazja-kus}}
[https://statystyka.pzla.pl/personal.php?page=profile&nr_zaw=126286 Anastazja Kuś] at the Polski Związek Lekkiej Atletyki {{in lang|pl}}

Category:2007 births

Category:Living people

Category:Polish female sprinters

Category:Olympic athletes for Poland

Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics

Category:Sportspeople from Olsztyn

Category:Athletes from Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship

Category:Place of birth missing (living people)

Category:21st-century Polish sportswomen

Category:World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists

Category:Medalists at at the 2023 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival