Sylwia Nowak-Trębacka (Polish pronunciation: ; born 28 April 1976) is a Polish

ice dancing Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. A ...

coach and former competitor. With partner

Sebastian Kolasiński Sebastian Kolasiński (; born 16 February 1975) is a Polish former competitive ice dancer. With partner Sylwia Nowak, he is the 1998 Skate Canada International bronze medalist, 1999 Cup of Russia bronze medalist, 1994 World Junior champion, and ...

, she is the

1998 Skate Canada International The 1998 Skate Canada International was the second event of six in the 1998–99 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held in Kamloops, British Columbia on November 5–8. Medals we ...

bronze medalist, 1999 Cup of Russia bronze medalist, 1994 World Junior champion, and a nine-time Polish national champion.

Personal life

Sylwia Nowak was born on 28 April 1976 in

Łódź Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located south-west of Warsaw. Łódź has a population of 655,279, making it the country's List of cities and towns in Polan ...

, Poland. She married Polish ice dancer Marcin Trębacki in 2003 and changed her surname to Nowak-Trębacka. She and her husband have a son, Maksymilian, and a daughter, Sonia.

Career

Early in her career, Nowak competed with Rafał Gabinowski. In 1991, coaches paired her with

, with whom she competed for the rest of her career. They won silver at the 1993 World Junior Championships and then gold in 1994. As seniors, Nowak/Kolasiński won gold medals at the

Nebelhorn Trophy The Nebelhorn Trophy is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by the German Ice Skating Union () and held in Oberstdorf, Germany. The competition debuted in 1969 and is na ...

Finlandia Trophy The Finlandia Trophy an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by Skating Finland (). The competition debuted in 1995 in Helsinki, and when the ISU launched the ISU Challenger ...

, and

Karl Schäfer Memorial The Karl Schäfer Memorial (other titles: Asko Cup (1987), Vienna Cup (1994), or Vienna Trophy) was a senior-level international figure skating competition held in Vienna, Austria. Medals were awarded in four disciplines: single skating, men's si ...

and bronze medals at two Grand Prix competitions, Skate Canada International and Cup of Russia. They placed as high as 9th at the World Championships and competed at two Olympics, in

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

and

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

. The two retired from competitive skating after the 2002–03 season. Nowak-Trębacka works as a coach in

Toruń Toruń is a city on the Vistula River in north-central Poland and a World Heritage Sites of Poland, UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its population was 196,935 as of December 2021. Previously, it was the capital of the Toruń Voivodeship (1975–199 ...

. Her most notable students are Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev.

Programs

(with Kolasiński)

Results

''GP: Champions Series/Grand Prix'' (with Kolasiński)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nowak-Trebacka, Sylwia 1976 births Living people Polish female ice dancers Polish figure skating coaches Figure skaters at the 1998 Winter Olympics Figure skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics Olympic figure skaters for Poland International Skating Union technical specialists Figure skaters from Łódź World Junior Figure Skating Championships medalists Female sports coaches Winter World University Games medalists in figure skating FISU World University Games silver medalists for Poland Competitors at the 2001 Winter Universiade