Karolina Bielawska (born 11 April 1999) is a Polish model, television presenter, and beauty queen who was crowned

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. She became the second titleholder from Poland, the first one being

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who won the pageant in

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Personal life

Bielawska was born in

Łódź Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of canti ...

. She is a business student with a bachelor's degree in management and she is studying for her master's degree. She is the daughter of Agnieszka Zakrzewska-Bielawska, dean of the Faculty of Organization and Management of the Lodz University of Technology, and Łukasz Bielawski, former president of

ŁKS Łódź ŁKS Łódź (''Łódzki Klub Sportowy Łódź''; ) is a Polish sports club based in Łódź. They are best known for their football club but are represented in many sports such as basketball, volleyball, tennis, athletics and in the past ice ...

Pageantry

Miss Polonia 2019

On 24 November 2019, Bielawska represented Łódź at Miss Polonia 2019 and won the title, which made her Poland's Miss World 2020 candidate. Miss World 2020 was cancelled due to the

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. She retained the Miss World Poland 2021 title. After winning the elections, she engaged in charity activities, such as volunteering for "Soup na Pietrynie", initiator of the Polish National Charity Action "Korona z Głowy" supporting those in need during the pandemic, ambassador of the social campaign "Dotykam = Wygrywam" acting to fight

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and a participant in the "FASS OFF" campaign for the Dom Foundation in Łódź. She supports the

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and the DKMS Foundation, is an ambassador of the charity action fighting

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, the action included in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs "Polonia4Neighbors", and as part of the charity project "Beauty with a purpose" together with the Foundation "Zupa na Pietrynie" created the first bathhouse in Łódź for people who are homeless.

Miss World 2021

Bielawska represented Poland at

held at the

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on 16 March 2022, when she won the pageant. She became the second Polish to win Miss World after

got the title in 1989.

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