1. Ewa Swoboda is a World Indoor Championships silver medallist, two-time European Championships silver medallist, European Indoor Championships gold and two-time silver medallist, and European Games gold and silver medallist.
18 Facts About Ewa Swoboda
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Ewa Swoboda is a two-time European U23 champion, World Junior Championships silver medallist and European junior champion.
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Ewa Swoboda won the 100 metres event at the European U23 Championships in 2017 and 2019.
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Ewa Swoboda holds the world junior record of 7.07 seconds and the Polish record of 6.98 seconds in the 60 metres.
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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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At the start of 2014, Ewa Swoboda claimed the Polish indoor junior title in the 60 metres.
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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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Ewa Swoboda competed in the 100 metres event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where she reached the semifinals.
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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.
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In March 2024, Ewa Swoboda participated in the women's 60 meters at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow.
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In June 2024, Ewa Swoboda won silver medal in the women's 100 meters event at the European Championships in Rome by achieving 11.03 seconds losing only to Dina Asher-Smith of Great Britain.
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Ewa Swoboda was in a relationship with Polish shot putter Konrad Bukowiecki.
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Ewa Swoboda's tattoos include a rose, cat and an inscription "Mom and dad, I love you" written in English.