Karolina Anna Michalczuk (born 6 December 1979) is a world champion boxer, and twice European champion. She was born in Brzezice, a village in eastern

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 ...

. Her club is Paco Lublin. She represented

in the 2012 Summer Olympics taking place in London in the

flyweight Flyweight is a weight class in combat sports. Boxing Flyweight is a class in boxing which includes fighters weighing above 49 kg (108 lb) and up to 51 kg (112 lb). Professional boxing The flyweight division was the last of b ...

division. She lost in the Round of 16 to India's

Mary Kom Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom (born 01 March 1983) is an Indian amateur boxer, politician, and former Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha. She is the only woman to win the World Amateur Boxing Championship six times, the only female boxer to ha ...

14-19.

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AIBA London 2012 Profile
1979 births Polish women boxers Olympic boxers for Poland Boxers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Living people People from Świdnik County Sportspeople from Lublin Voivodeship AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships medalists Flyweight boxers 20th-century Polish women 21st-century Polish women {{Poland-boxing-bio-stub