Paulina Brzeźna-Bentkowska
{{Short description|Polish cyclist (born 1981)}}
{{Infobox cyclist
| name = Paulina Brzeźna-Bentkowska
| image =
| fullname = Paulina Agata Brzeźna-Bentkowska
| nickname =
| birth_name = Paulina Agata Brzeźna
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1981|9|10|df=y}}
| birth_place = Środa Śląska, Poland
| height =
| weight =
| currentteam = {{nowrap|{{UCI team code|APW}}}}
| discipline = Road
| role = {{ubl|Rider (retired)|Directeur sportif|Team owner}}
| ridertype = All-rounder
| amateuryears1 = 2005–2006
| amateurteam1 = Peugeot Andrzej Kita
| amateuryears2 = 2011–2012
| amateurteam2 = Ogniwo Dzierżoniów
| amateuryears3 = 2012
| amateurteam3 = Dura Vermeer Cycling Team (guest)
| amateuryears4 = 2013–2015
| amateurteam4 = TKK Pacific Torun–Nestlé Fitness
| amateuryears5 = 2016–2017
| amateurteam5 = {{UCI team code|APW|2016}}
| proyears1 = 2003–2004
| proteam1 = Bonda–Lukowski
| proyears2 = 2007–2008
| proteam2 = {{UCI team code|AAD|2007}}
| proyears3 = 2009–2010
| proteam3 = Red Sun Cycling Team
| manageyears1 = 2016–
| manageteam1 = {{UCI team code|APW|2016}}
| majorwins = Stage races
::3 individual stages (2013, 2014)
Single-day races
:National Road Race Championships (2005, 2008)
}}
Paulina Agata Brzeźna-Bentkowska (née Brzeźna; born 10 September 1981) is a Polish former road racing cyclist, who competed between 2003 and 2017. She is a part-team owner of UCI Women's Continental Team {{UCI team code|APW}} with her husband, former professional cyclist Paweł Bentkowski,{{cite news|url=https://lzs.pl/2022/01/05/mat-atom-deweloper-wroclaw-z-licencja-uci/|title=Mat Atom Deweloper Wrocław z licencją UCI|language=Polish|trans-title=Mat Atom Developer Wrocław with a UCI license|work=LZS.pl|publisher=Ludowe Zespoły Sportowe|date=5 January 2022|accessdate=22 May 2022}} and also acts as a directeur sportif for the team.
During her career, Brzeźna-Bentkowska specialised as an all-rounder, with good climbing performances. She placed high overall and won stages in stage races such as the Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska and Gracia–Orlová, winning the general classification of the latter in 2014. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, taking 8th place in the elite women road race and marking the most successful result in the history of Polish women's cycling at the time. She won the Polish National Road Race Championships twice, and finished in the top-ten placings in the road race at the 2012 UCI Road World Championships.
Personal life
As well as her husband, Brzeźna-Bentkowska's uncle Jan Brzeźny and sister Monika Brzeźna have competed professionally in cycling.{{cite news|first=Wolfgang|last=Brylla|url=https://rowery.org/2017/04/11/paula-juz-tesknimy/|title=Paula, już tęsknimy!|language=Polish|trans-title=Paula, we miss you already!|work=Rowery.org|publisher=Łukasz Rżanek|date=11 April 2017|accessdate=22 May 2022}}{{cite news|first=Mateusz|last=Gruszeczka|url=https://rowerowa.pl/news/paulina-brzezna-bentkowska-nie-wyobrazalam-sobie-zeby-nie-wystartowac-w-mistrzostwach-polski---wywiad|title=Paulina Brzeźna-Bentkowska: "Nie wyobrażałam sobie, żeby nie wystartować w mistrzostwach Polski"|language=Polish|trans-title=Paulina Brzeźna-Bentkowska: "I couldn't imagine not taking part in the Polish championship"|work=Rowerowa.pl|publisher=F.H.U. Teanka Andrzej Kramarczyk|date=30 April 2020|accessdate=22 May 2022}}
Major results
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;1998
: 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
;1999
: 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
;2001
: 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
;2002
: 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
;2003
: National Road Championships
::2nd Road race
::3rd Time trial
: 8th Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio
;2004
: 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
;2005
: 1st 20px Road race, National Road Championships
;2006
: National Road Championships
::2nd Road race
::3rd Time trial
: 4th Sparkassen Giro
: 6th Overall Tour Féminin en Limousin
: 8th Overall Tour de Feminin – Krásná Lípa
;2007
: 6th GP Stad Roeselare
;2008
: National Road Championships
::2nd Time trial
: 4th Overall Tour Féminin en Limousin
::1st Stage 2
: 8th Road race, Summer Olympics
;2009
: National Road Championships
::2nd Time trial
::3rd Road race
;2010
: 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
;2011
: 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
: 6th Overall Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska
: 7th Overall Gracia–Orlová
;2012
: 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
: 8th Overall Tour de Bretagne Féminin
: 10th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
;2013
: 1st Stage 3 Gracia–Orlová
: National Road Championships
::2nd Road race
::3rd Time trial
: 5th Overall Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska
::1st Mountains classification
::1st Stage 1
;2014
: 1st 20px Overall Gracia-Orlová
::1st Stages 1 & 3
;2015
: 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
: 5th Overall Auensteiner–Radsporttage
: 7th Overall Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska
::1st Stage 1
;2016
: 8th Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria{{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/durango-durango-emakumeen-saria-2016/results/ |title=Guarnier wins Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria|date=12 April 2016 |website=cyclingnews.com|access-date=14 April 2016}}
: 9th Overall Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska{{cite web |url=http://www.greenedgecycling.com/race-and-results/tour-de-feminin |title=Tour de Feminin: Race Overview|website={{UCI team code|BEX women|2016}} |access-date=3 September 2016}}
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References
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Category:Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic cyclists for Poland
Category:Polish female cyclists
Category:People from Środa Śląska