Maria Kwaśniewska

|- ! colspan="3" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#eeeeee;" | Women's athletics

|- ! colspan="3" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#eeeeee;" class="adr" | Representing Poland

|- | style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | || style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 1936 Berlin || style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | Javelin throw |}

Maria Jadwiga Kwaśniewska-Maleszewska, née Kwaśniewska (15 August 1913, in Łódź, Russian Empire – 17 October 2007, in Warsaw) was a Polish athlete who competed mainly in the javelin throw.

Grave of Maria Kwaśniewska at Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw

She competed for Poland in the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany, where she won the bronze medal in the Javelin throw.

During World War II she was active in the anti-Nazi underground, and helped Polish and Jewish homeless and starving people.

References

• Profile at ŁKS Łódź website