Anna Kiełbasińska Explained

Anna Kiełbasińska
Birth Date:26 June 1990
Birth Place:Warsaw, Poland
Height:1.70 m
Weight:55 kg
Country:Poland
Sport:Athletics
Event:Sprinting
Club:SKLA Sopot (2016–)
AZS-AWF Warszawa(2009–2015)
Polonia Warszawa (2005–2008)[1]
Coach:Jarosław Skrzyszowski
(Laurent Meuwly)

Anna Kiełbasińska (pronounced as /pl/; 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.

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

Statistics

International competitions

2007Hengelo, Netherlands5th4 × 400 m relay3:39.26
2008World Junior ChampionshipsBydgoszcz, Poland7th200m23.95
6th (h)4 × 100 m relay44.73
2009Novi Sad, Serbia3rd200 m23.75
bgcolor=silver2nd4 × 100 m relay45.12
2011Ostrava, Czech Republic3rd100 m11.77
bgcolor=gold1st200 m23.23
7th4 × 100 m relay44.67
Daegu, South Korea25th (h)200 m23.34
4 × 100 m relayDNF
2012Olympic GamesLondon, United Kingdom31st (h)200 m23.67
2014World Indoor ChampionshipsSopot, Poland17th (sf)60 m 7.31
2015World ChampionshipsBeijing, China21st (sf)200 m23.07
11th (h)4 × 100 m relay43.20
Military World GamesMungyeong, South Koreabgcolor=silver2nd200 m23.33
2016European ChampionshipsAmsterdam, Netherlands14th (sf)200 m23.36
7th4 × 100 m relay43.24
Olympic GamesRio de Janeiro, Brazil25th (h)200 m22.95
12th (h)4 × 100 m relay43.33
2017World ChampionshipsLondon, United Kingdom25th (h)200 m23.48
DécaNationAngers, Francebgcolor=silver2nd100 m11.46
bgcolor=silver2nd200 m23.68
2018World Indoor ChampionshipsBirmingham, United Kingdom15th (sf)60 m i7.23
European ChampionshipsBerlin, Germany14th (sf)200 m23.29
6th4 × 100 m relay43.34
2019European Indoor ChampionshipsGlasgow, United Kingdombgcolor=gold1st4 × 400 m relay i3:28.77
World RelaysYokohama, Japanbgcolor=gold1st4 × 400 m relay3:27.49
World ChampionshipsDoha, Qatar34th (h)400 m52.25
bgcolor=silver2nd4 × 400 m relay3:25.781
Military World GamesWuhan, China3rd200 m23.33
bgcolor=gold1st4 × 400 m relay3:27.84
2021Olympic GamesTokyo, Japanbgcolor=silver2nd4 x 400 m relay3:23.101
2022World ChampionshipsEugene, OR, United States8th400 m50.81
European ChampionshipsMunich, Germany3rd400 m50.29
bgcolor=silver2nd4 × 100 m relay
bgcolor=silver2nd4 × 400 m relay
2023European Indoor ChampionshipsIstanbul, Turkey3rd400 m i51.25 SB
3rd4 x 400 m relay i3:29.31
1Time from the heats; Kiełbasińska was replaced in the final.

Personal bests

National titles

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Anna K – Athlete profile. 2022-02-06. Polish Athletics.
  2. Web site: Anna KIEŁBASIŃSKA – Athlete Profile. live. 1 January 2021. World Athletics. https://web.archive.org/web/20210124155452/https://worldathletics.org/athletes/poland/anna-kielbasinska-14293852 . 24 January 2021 .
  3. Web site: Dennehy . Cathal . 17 March 2023 . Anna Kielbasinska: “I want to break the 50-second barrier” . 17 March 2023 . . en.
  4. News: Phillips . Mitch . 2021-08-07 . Athletics-Eleven medals for Felix as stellar U.S. team take 4x400m glory . . 2022-03-07.
  5. Web site: Nowy halowy rekord Polski w biegu na 400 m! Wielka chwila Anny Kiełbasińskiej . pl . 3 February 2022.
  6. Web site: 2022-02-03. Kielbasinska clocks world-leading 51.10 in Ostrava. live. 2022-02-07. World Athletics. https://web.archive.org/web/20220203220724/https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-indoor-tour/news/kielbasinska-giles-montler-ostrava-czech-gala . 3 February 2022 .
  7. http://zdrowie.jastrzabpost.pl/zdrowie/zdrowie-zdrowie/anna-kielbasinska-opowiedziala-o-swojej-chorobie_298921.html Anna Kiełbasińska ma łysienie plackowate