Karolina Tymińska (born 4 October 1984 in
Świebodzin) is a Polish
heptathlete. She has represented Poland twice at the
Olympic Games
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(2008 and 2012) and three times at the
World Championships in Athletics
The World Athletics Championships (until 2019 known as the World Championships in Athletics) are a biennial athletics competition organized by World Athletics (formerly IAAF, International Association of Athletics Federations). Alongside the Ol ...
(2007, 2009 and 2011). She is the bronze medalist in the heptathlon from the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, having originally come fourth in the event before the disqualification, in 2016, of
Tatyana Chernova
Tatyana Sergeyevna Chernova (russian: Татьяна Серге́евна Чернова; born 29 January 1988 in Krasnodar) is a Russian former heptathlete. She was originally awarded the bronze medals at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics befo ...
.
Tymińska also regularly competes in the
indoor pentathlon
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event: at the
IAAF World Indoor Championships she placed fourth in 2012 and sixth in both 2008 and 2010.
Her personal best in indoor pentathlon result is 4769 points, achieved in July 2008 in
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. In heptathlon her personal best result is 6544 achieved in August 2011 in
Daegu
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.
She won the
European Cup Combined Events
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title in 2013 with a score of 6347 points, defeating
Hanna Melnychenko
Hanna Anatoliïvna Kasyanova (née Melnychenko) ( uk, Ганна Анатоліївна Мельниченко; born 24 April 1983 in Tbilisi, Georgia) is a Ukrainian heptathlete.
Career
Kasyanova won the 2013 Décastar competition with 6308 poin ...
and setting a
javelin throw
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best of 42.40 m. She placed second at the
Decastar meeting with 6288 points.
[van Kuijen, Hans (2013-09-15)]
Warner and Melnychenko win in Talence – IAAF Combined Events Challenge
IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-09-21.
Achievements
References
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1984 births
Living people
Polish heptathletes
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes of Poland
People from Świebodzin
Sportspeople from Lubusz Voivodeship
World Athletics Championships athletes for Poland
20th-century Polish women
21st-century Polish women
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