Ewa Swoboda

Ewa Swoboda
Personal information
Full name Ewa Nikola Swoboda
Nationality Polish
Born (1997-07-26) July 26, 1997
Height 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 55 kg (121 lb)
Sport
Country  Poland
Sport Track and field
Event(s) Sprint
Club UKS Czwórka Żory
Coached by Iwona Krupa
Medal record
World Junior Championships
2016 Bydgoszcz 100 m
European Team Championships
2015 Cheboksary 100 m
European Junior Championships
2015 Eskilstuna 100 m
2015 Eskilstuna 4x100 m
Updated on 21 July 2016.

Ewa Nikola Swoboda (born 26 July 1997)[1] is a Polish track and field sprinter who competes in the short sprints. She holds the world junior record of 7.07 seconds in the 60 metres. She was a 100 metres finalist at the World Youth Championships in Athletics, World Junior Championships in Athletics and Summer Youth Olympics. She was a 60 m finalist in her senior debut at the 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships.

Career

Swoboda at the 2015 indoor Pedro's Cup meet in Poland

Swoboda started competing in athletics from a young age and after joining the UKS Czwórka Żory athletics club she began training under her coach Iwona Krupa. She won the Polish youth titles in the 100 metres in 2011 and 2012. The following year she won the national indoor junior 200 metres race.[2] Her international debut came at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics and she placed fourth in the girls' 100 m with a run of 11.61 seconds; she was the best European in the race.[3] After this she ran a personal best and Polish junior record of 11.54 seconds in the 100 m at the Polish Youth Olympic Days, where she completed a sprint double.[4]

At the start of 2014 she claimed the Polish indoor junior title in the 60 metres.[2] Outdoors, she entered the 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics and managed fifth in the 100 m, although she failed to finish over the longer 200 m distance.[5] At the European Youth Olympic Trials in Baku she won the 100 m and was runner-up in the 200 m.[2] This made her one of the favourites for the 2014 Youth Olympics, and she ran a new best of 11.30 seconds in her opening race – making her the seconds fastest junior athlete that year.[6] However, her success was short-lived in that event as she was disqualified in the 100 m final for a false start in the midst of crowd noise.[1][7]

Swoboda won her first senior national title at the 2015 Polish Indoor Championships and she also set a 60 metres European junior record of 7.21 seconds during the competition, which was also a world best for a seventeen-year-old.[8][9] This gained her selection for the 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships – her first senior appearance for Poland. Her form persisted at the event and, age seventeen, she made the final of the 60 m. There she ran another personal best of 7.20 seconds, knocking one hundredth off her European junior record. This was the joint fastest time achieved by a Polish woman in the competition's history – matching that of Irena Szewińska and Daria Korczyńska (both of whom were medallists).[10]

Personal bests

Outdoor
Indoor

International competitions

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
2013 World Youth Championships Donetsk, Ukraine 4th 100 m 11.61
2014 World Junior Championships Eugene, Oregon, United States 5th 100m 11.59 (wind: -1.0 m/s)
— 200m DNF
— 4×100m relay DNF
Youth Olympics Nanjing, China DQ 100 m False start
2015 European Indoor Championships Prague, Czech Republic 8th 60 m 7.20 AJR
European Junior Championships Eskilstuna, Sweden 1st 100 m 11.52
2nd 4x100 m relay 45.28
2016 European Championships Amsterdam, Netherlands 7th 4x100 m relay 43.24
World Junior Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland 2nd 100 11.12
4th 4x100 m relay 44.81
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 15th (sf) 100 m 11.18
13th (h) 4x100 m relay 43.33

National titles

References

  1. 1 2 SWOBODA Ewa Nikola . Nanjing2014. Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  2. 1 2 3 Ewa Swoboda. Domtel Sport. Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  3. ↑ Westbrook upsets the odds in the girls' 100m. IAAF (2013-07-11). Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  4. ↑ Ogólnopolska Olimpiada Młodzieży - medaliści (Polish). Bieganie (2013-07-29). Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  5. ↑ Ewa Swoboda Honours. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  6. ↑ Landells, Steve (2014-08-21). Chepngetich, Halasz, Sebsibe and Swoboda continue their Youth Olympic Games gold medal quest. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  7. ↑ Landells, Steve (2014-08-23). Hyde sets 110m hurdles world youth best at Youth Olympic games. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  8. ↑ Swoboda soars into European history. European Athletics (2015-02-23). Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  9. ↑ Mulkeen, Jon (2015-02-21). Licwinko, Bascou and Storl shine on first day of national indoor champs. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  10. ↑ Petruczenko, Maciej (2015-03-10). Osiemnaście mieć lat to nie grzech. Przeglad Sportowy. Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
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