Beata Mikołajczyk

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| caption= Mikołajczyk in 2008

| birth_date={{birth-date and age|15 October 1985}}

| birth_place= Bydgoszcz, Poland

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| height = 170 cm

| weight = 68 kg

| sport=Canoe sprint

| education =

| coach=Wieslaw Rakowski (club)
Tomas Kryk (national)

| club=UKS Kopernik

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| show-medals = yes

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|European Championships|4|6|3

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Beata Mikołajczyk (Polish pronunciation: {{IPAc-pl|b|e|'|a|t|a|-|m|i|k|o|'|ł|a|j|cz|y|k}}; 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.

Career

Mikołajczyk took up canoeing in 1996 in her native Bydgoszcz. 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.

Awards

For her sport achievements, she received:

Image:POL Złoty Krzyż Zasługi BAR.svg Golden Cross of Merit in 2008.
Image:POL Polonia Restituta Kawalerski BAR.svg Knight's Cross Order of Polonia Restituta in 2013.

References

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[https://www.rio2016.com/en/athlete/beata-mikolajczyk Beata Mikolajczyk] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826115840/https://www.rio2016.com/en/athlete/beata-mikolajczyk |date=26 August 2016 }}. rio2016.com

[http://results.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=mikolajczyk-beata-1046601/index.html Beata Mikolajczyk] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920031115/http://results.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=mikolajczyk-beata-1046601/index.html |date=20 September 2016 }}. nbcolympics.com

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External links

{{ICF profile|beata-mikolajczyk}}
{{Olympics.com profile|beata-mikolajczyk|org_archive=20190701050414}}
{{PKOl profile|beata-mikolajczyk|old_id=1498,mikolajczyk-beata|archive=20181130071231}}
{{Olympedia}}
{{Cite web |url=http://zap.norex.ca/bio/athlete/625/ |title=Canoe09.ca profile |access-date=20 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326122102/http://zap.norex.ca/bio/athlete/625/ |archive-date=26 March 2012 |url-status=dead}}

Category:1985 births

Category:Living people

Category:Canoeists at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Category:Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Category:Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Category:Olympic canoeists for Poland

Category:Olympic silver medalists for Poland

Category:Sportspeople from Bydgoszcz

Category:Polish female canoeists

Category:Olympic medalists in canoeing

Category:Recipients of the Gold Cross of Merit (Poland)

Category:Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta