Dominika Misterska-Zasowska (born 20 July 1979 in Łódź) is a Polish weightlifter. She won a silver medal for the middleweight division at the

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, and bronze at the

2006 European Weightlifting Championships The 2006 European Weightlifting Championships were held in Władysławowo, Poland from 29 April to 7 May 2006. It was the 85th edition of the event, which was first staged in 1896. Medal overview Men Women Medal table ReferencesResults (Eur ...

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, Poland. Misterska-Zasowska represented Poland at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

in Beijing, where she competed for the women's middleweight category (63 kg). Misterska-Zasowska placed eleventh in this event, as she successfully lifted 94 kg in the single-motion snatch, and hoisted 117 kg in the two-part, shoulder-to-overhead

clean and jerk The clean and jerk is a composite of two weightlifting movements, most often performed with a barbell: the clean and the jerk. During the ''clean'', the lifter moves the barbell from the floor to a racked position across the deltoids, without res ...

, for a total of 211 kg.

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NBC Olympics Profile
Polish female weightlifters 1979 births Living people Olympic weightlifters for Poland Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Łódź European Weightlifting Championships medalists 21st-century Polish women 20th-century Polish women {{Poland-weightlifting-bio-stub