Małgorzata Bożena Guzowska-Nowak (born February 9, 1959, in

Białystok Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the List of cities and towns in Poland, tenth-largest city in Poland, second in terms of population density, and thirteenth in area. Biał ...

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) is a retired

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heptathlete.

Biography

She twice won the gold medal at the

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during her career. Guzowska set her personal best (4459 points) in the pentathlon in 1980. Her best of 6616 points in the heptathlon remained the Polish national record for the event until 2022. She represented her country at the

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and was twelfth in the women's pentathlon. At the

1982 European Athletics Championships The 13th European Athletics Championships were held from 6 September to 12 September 1982 at the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald. Men's results Comp ...

, she came twelfth. She was fourth in the heptathlon at the 1984 Friendship Games. In 1986 she won the

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heptathlon title and came sixth at the

1986 European Athletics Championships The 14th European Athletics Championships were held from 26 to 31 August 1986 at the Neckarstadion, now known as MHPArena, in Stuttgart, a city in West Germany. Contemporaneous reports were given in the Glasgow Herald. Me ...

. At national level, she won five straight heptathlon titles from 1980 to 1984 and also won the

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title in 1986. At the indoor Polish championships, she was a four-time pentathlon champion as well as having a

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title and two wins in the

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.Polish Indoor Championships
GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2011-06-18.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Guzowska, Malgorzata 1959 births Living people Polish pentathletes Polish heptathletes Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Poland Sportspeople from Białystok Athletes from Podlaskie Voivodeship Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) FISU World University Games gold medalists for Poland Medalists at the 1981 Summer Universiade 20th-century Polish sportswomen 21st-century Polish sportswomen Competitors at the 1984 Friendship Games Polish Athletics Championships winners