Edyta Dzieniszewska-Kierkla (
Polish pronunciation: ; born 5 May 1986, in
Augustów) is a Polish
sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. At the
2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing
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, she finished fourth in the
K-4 500 m event. In June 2015, she competed in the
inaugural European Games, for
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
in
canoe sprint
Canoe sprint is a water sport in which athletes race canoes or kayaks on calm water.
Overview
Race categories vary by the number of athletes in the boat, the length of the course, and whether the boat is a canoe or kayak. Canoe sprints are s ...
, more specifically, Women's K-4 500m with
Ewelina Wojnarowska
Ewelina Wojnarowska (Polish pronunciation: ; born 15 December 1986 in Poznań)Karolina Naja
Karolina Elżbieta Naja (Polish pronunciation: ; born 5 February 1990) is a Polish sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal in Women's K-4 500 metres, and silver medal in Women ...
, and
Beata Mikołajczyk
Beata Mikołajczyk (Polish pronunciation: ; born 15 October 1985) is a Polish sprint canoer. She competed at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics, in two events for each games; she won one silver and two bronze medals and placed fourth two times.
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. She earned a bronze medal.
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1986 births
Canoeists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic canoeists of Poland
Polish female canoeists
People from Augustów
Sportspeople from Podlaskie Voivodeship
European Games medalists in canoeing
Canoeists at the 2015 European Games
European Games bronze medalists for Poland
21st-century Polish women
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