Alicja Pęczak (born 13 January 1970 in

Bydgoszcz Bydgoszcz ( , , ; german: Bromberg) is a city in northern Poland, straddling the meeting of the River Vistula with its left-bank tributary, the Brda. With a city population of 339,053 as of December 2021 and an urban agglomeration with more ...

, Kuyavian-Pomeranian) is a retired

breaststroke Breaststroke is a swimming style in which the swimmer is on their chest and the torso does not rotate. It is the most popular recreational style due to the swimmer's head being out of the water a large portion of the time, and that it can b ...

and

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from

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, who competed in two consecutive

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for her native country: in 1992 and 1996. A member of

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and AZS-AWF Gdańsk, she is best known for winning several medals at the FINA Short Course World Championships. Pęczak was banned for 18 months because of doping use.

References

* Living people 1970 births Polish female breaststroke swimmers Polish female medley swimmers Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers for Poland Astoria Bydgoszcz sportspeople Sportspeople from Bydgoszcz Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Polish sportspeople in doping cases Universiade medalists in swimming Universiade silver medalists for Poland Medalists at the 1991 Summer Universiade 20th-century Polish women 21st-century Polish women {{Poland-swimming-bio-stub