Agata Ewa Wróbel (born August 28, 1981, in

Żywiec Żywiec () is a town on the River Soła in southern Poland with 31,194 inhabitants (2019). It is situated within the Silesian Voivodeship, near the Żywiec Lake and Żywiec Landscape Park, one of the eight protected areas in the voivodeship. H ...

) is a Polish

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, and is a

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-breaker in the +75 kg category. She took up weightlifting after watching the men compete in the

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, and after learning that women's weightlifting would be an event at the

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. At the 2000 World Junior Championships her combined total for both the snatch and

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was a record-breaking 290 kg. She has broken no fewer than 11 world records in the sport. In 2002, she was voted 2nd for world weightlifter of the year. As well as numerous Junior and World Championship successes, coming first in 2002, she has participated in both the

and

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in the Women's +75 kg category, winning a

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and a

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respectively. In 2003, she appeared in the

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documentary ''"M2A – Mission to Athens"'', depicting her preparation to the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. After retirement from the sport, she worked in a

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facility. For her sport achievements, she received: Golden Cross of Merit in 2000;
Knight's Cross of the

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(5th Class) in 2004.

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wrobel, Agata 1981 births Living people Polish female weightlifters Weightlifters at the 2000 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic weightlifters for Poland Olympic silver medalists for Poland Olympic bronze medalists for Poland People from Żywiec Olympic medalists in weightlifting Knights of the Order of Polonia Restituta Recipients of the Gold Cross of Merit (Poland) Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Weightlifters from Silesian Voivodeship Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics European Weightlifting Championships medalists World Weightlifting Championships medalists 21st-century Polish sportswomen