Ewa Nikola Swoboda ( ; born 26 July 1997)
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sprinter who specialises in the short sprints. She is a three-time European Indoor Championships medallist in the

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, having won the gold medal in

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and silvers in

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and

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The 17-year-old was a finalist in the 60 m in her senior debut at the 2015 European Indoor Championships. Still 17, she became the 2015 European junior champion over the

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to take the silver medal at the 2016 World Junior Championships. She twice won the event at the European U23 Championships (2017, 2019). Swoboda holds the world junior record of 7.07 seconds and the Polish record of 6.99 seconds in the 60 metres. She is a multiple medallist of national outdoor and indoor championships.

Career

Ewa Swoboda started competing in

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from a young age and after joining the UKS Czwórka Żory athletics club she began training under her coach Iwona Krupa. She won the Polish youth titles in the

in 2011 and 2012. The following year she won the national indoor junior

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race.Ewa Swoboda
Domtel Sport. Retrieved on 2015-03-11. Her international debut came at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics and she placed fourth in the girls' 100 m with a run of 11.61 seconds; she was the best European in the race. After this she ran a personal best and Polish junior record of 11.54 seconds in the 100 m at the Polish Youth Olympic Days, where she completed a sprint double. At the start of 2014 she claimed the Polish indoor junior title in the

. Outdoors, at the

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she was fifth in the 100 m, and failed to finish in the 200 m. At the European Youth Olympic Trials in Baku she won the 100 m and was runner-up in the 200 m. This made her one of the favourites for the 2014 Youth Olympics, and she ran a new best of 11.30 seconds in her opening race – making her the seconds fastest junior athlete that year. However, her success was short-lived in that event as she was disqualified in the 100 m final for a

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in the midst of crowd noise. Swoboda won her first senior national title at the 2015 Polish Indoor Championships and she also set a

European junior record of 7.21 seconds during the competition, which was also a world best for a seventeen-year-old. This gained her selection for the 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships – her first senior appearance for Poland. Still aged seventeen, she made the final of the 60 m and ran another personal best of 7.20 seconds, improving her European junior record by 0.01 seconds. This was the joint fastest time achieved by a Polish woman in the competition's history – matching that of

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and

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(both of whom were medallists). In March 2018 it was announced that Swoboda would be upgraded to silver medalist at the 2017 European Indoor Championship, after Ukraine's Olesya Povh's was disqualified for the use of unauthorized substances. She was unable to participate at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships in

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after testing positive to

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shortly before the start of the championships. Swoboda also did not compete at the

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due to injury. On 11 February 2022, she broke the Polish national record in the 60 meters twice at the Orlen Cup meeting in

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and set a new one by achieving 7.00 seconds. On 5 March, she broke the record again at the Polish Indoor Championships in

with a time of 6.99 seconds, which was the tenth best result in the history of the competition. She placed fourth at the 2022 World Indoor Championships held in Belgrade in a time of 7.04 seconds. The same time was measured for the fifth and sixth woman while Swoboda lost the bronze medal by 0.002 s.

Achievements

Personal bests

– 11.07 (+0.7 m/s

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2019) ** 100 metres U20 – 11.12 (+0.9 m/s Bydgoszcz 2016) ** 100 metres U18 – 11.30 (0.0 m/s

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2014) *

– 23.79 (+0.3 m/s) (

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2018) ;Indoor *

– 6.99 (

2022) ** 60 metres U20 – 7.07 (

2016) *

– 24.55 (

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2014)

International competitions

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National titles

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(6): 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 ** 4 × 100 m relay (1): 2020 * Polish Indoor Athletics Championships **

(7): 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023

References

External links

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European Athletics profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Swoboda, Ewa Living people 1997 births Polish female sprinters Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics People from Żory Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Poland Polish Athletics Championships winners European Athletics Indoor Championships winners Olympic female sprinters 20th-century Polish women 21st-century Polish women European Athletics Championships medalists