Maryna Gąsienica-Daniel (born 19 February 1994) is a

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alpine ski racer from

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

. She competed for Poland at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the alpine skiing events, and was 32nd in the

giant slalom Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding competitive discipline. It involves racing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in Slalom skiing, slalom but less than in Super-G. Giant sl ...

. She finished 34th in the

at the

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, and won a gold medal in giant slalom at the

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. She was also fifth in the giant slalom at the 2013 World Junior Championships in

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. At the 2021 World Championships in

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, she placed joint fifth in the parallel giant slalom and sixth in the

. She is from a winter sports family: her grandfather Franciszek Gąsienica Daniel was a competitive skier. Although he did not compete at the Winter Olympics, Maryna is the seventh member of her family to represent Poland at the Winter Games: the others include Franciszek's siblings

Helena Gąsienica Daniel Helena Gąsienica Daniel (15 April 1934 – 23 November 2013) was a Polish Cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skier. She enjoyed success from a young age, winning two gold medals at the Polish national championships by the age of 16 ...

(cross-country skiing),

Andrzej Gąsienica Daniel Andrzej Gąsienica Daniel (13 March 1932 – 31 August 1991) was a Polish ski jumper. He competed in the individual event at the 1956 Winter Olympics The 1956 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VII Olympic Winter Games () and c ...

(ski jumping),

Maria Gąsienica Daniel-Szatkowska Maria Gąsienica Daniel-Szatkowska (5 February 1936 – 1 January 2016) was a Polish alpine skier. She competed at the 1956 Winter Olympics and the 1964 Winter Olympics. She was the sister of fellow Olympians Helena Gąsienica Daniel, Andrz ...

(alpine skiing) and Józef Gąsienica Daniel (nordic combined), as well as one of her maternal great-grandfathers, cross-country skier Andrzej Krzeptowski, and Maryna's sister, alpine racer Agnieszka Gąsienica-Daniel. Her parents run a hostel in the Tatra Mountains. She is god-daughter of Sebastian Karpiel-Bułecka, frontman of the folk group

Zakopower Zakopower is a Polish Goral folk music group. It is named after Zakopane, the hometown of its lead singer. Awards * 2008 - Fryderyk award for Folk Album of the Year * 2008 - National Festival of Polish Song in Opole, Grand Prix

World Cup results

World Championship results

Olympic results

Europa Cup results

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gasienica-Daniel, Maryna 1994 births Living people Olympic alpine skiers for Poland Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Polish female alpine skiers Winter World University Games medalists in alpine skiing Skiers from Zakopane FISU World University Games gold medalists for Poland Competitors at the 2013 Winter Universiade 21st-century Polish sportswomen