Ewa Swoboda

Swoboda being interviewed in 2015

Ewa Nikola Swoboda (born 26 July 1997)[1] is a Polish track and field sprinter who competes in the short sprints. She holds the European junior record of 7.20 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 competed 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.[7][1]

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 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

International competitions

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
2013 World Youth Championships Donetsk, Ukraine 4th 100 m 11.61
2014 World Junior Championships Eugene, United States 5th 100 m 11.59
DNF 200 m —
Youth Olympics Nanjing, China DQ 100 m False start
2015 European Indoor Championships Prague, Czech Republic 8th 60 m 7.20 AJR

National titles

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 SWOBODA Ewa Nikola . Nanjing2014. Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 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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