Izabella Antonowicz-Szuszkiewicz (born March 16, 1942 in

Vilnius Vilnius ( , ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Lithuania, with a population of 592,389 (according to the state register) or 625,107 (according to the municipality of Vilnius). The population of Vilnius's functional urb ...

) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s. Competing in three

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, she earned her best finish of sixth in the K-2 500 m event at

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. Antonowicz's husband, Władysław (1938–2007), also competed as a sprint canoer during the 1960s and 1970s.

References

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