Bogna Jóźwiak (born April 15, 1983 in Poznań) is a Polish sabre fencer. Jozwiak represented Poland at the

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in Beijing, where she competed in two sabre events. For her first event, the women's individual sabre, Jozwiak first defeated Venezuela's Alejandra Benitez in the preliminary round of thirty-two, before losing out her next match to U.S. fencer Mariel Zagunis, with a score of 13–15. Few days later, she joined with her fellow fencers and teammates Irena Więckowska and Aleksandra Socha for the

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. Jozwiak and her team, however, lost the fifth place match to the Russian team (led by Sofiya Velikaya), with a total score of 36 touches.

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Polish female sabre fencers Living people Olympic fencers of Poland Fencers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Poznań 1983 births 21st-century Polish women 20th-century Polish women {{Poland-fencing-bio-stub