Anna Kiełbasińska (; born 26 June 1990) is a Polish sprinter who competed occasionally also in

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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

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. 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

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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

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, alongside Iga Baumgart-Witan, Małgorzata Hołub-Kowalik and Justyna Święty-Ersetic. At

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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

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in 2021, she underwent surgery to fix a broken

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in her ankle. The third-grade fracture was fixed with two screws. 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. 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

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, Czech Republic. 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

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Statistics

International competitions

¹Time from the heats; Kiełbasińska was replaced in the final.

Personal bests

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indoor – 7.21 (

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2021) *

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– 11.22 (-0.4 m/s) ( Chorzów 2022) *

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– 22.76 (+1.9 m/s) (

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2021) ** 200 metres indoor – 23.02 (

2023) * 400 metres – 50.28 (

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2022) ** 400 metres indoor – 51.10 (

2022)

National titles

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: 2014 **

: 2015, 2016, 2017 ** 4 x 100 m relay: 2016 ** 4 x 400 m relay: 2013, 2014 * Polish Indoor Athletics Championships ** 200 metres: 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 ** 400 metres: 2009

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kielbasinska, Anna 1990 births Living people Athletes from Warsaw Polish female sprinters Polish female hurdlers Olympic athletes for Poland Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Poland World Athletics Championships medalists European Athletics Indoor Championships winners Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field) Olympic silver medalists for Poland European Athletics Championships medalists Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games European Games silver medalists for Poland European Games medalists in athletics 21st-century Polish sportswomen Military World Games gold medalists for Poland Military World Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Military World Games silver medalists for Poland Military World Games bronze medalists for Poland