11 Facts About Ewa Swoboda

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Ewa Nikola Swoboda is a Polish track and field sprinter who specialises in the short sprints.

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Ewa Swoboda is a three-time European Indoor Championships medallist in the 60 metres, having won the gold medal in 2019 and silvers in 2017 and 2023.

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Ewa Swoboda twice won the event at the European U23 Championships.

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Ewa Swoboda is a multiple medallist of national outdoor and indoor championships.

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Ewa Swoboda started competing in athletics from a young age and after joining the UKS Czworka Zory athletics club she began training under her coach Iwona Krupa.

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Ewa Swoboda won the Polish youth titles in the 100 metres in 2011 and 2012.

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Ewa Swoboda won her first senior national title at the 2015 Polish Indoor Championships and she set a 60 metres European junior record of 7.21 seconds during the competition, which was a world best for a seventeen-year-old.

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In March 2018 it was announced that Ewa Swoboda would be upgraded to silver medalist at the 2017 European Indoor Championship, after Ukraine's Olesya Povh's was disqualified for the use of unauthorized substances.

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Ewa Swoboda was unable to participate at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Torun after testing positive to COVID-19 shortly before the start of the championships.

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Ewa Swoboda did not compete at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics due to injury.

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Ewa Swoboda placed fourth at the 2022 World Indoor Championships held in Belgrade in a time of 7.04 seconds.