Anna Kiełbasińska

Anna Kiełbasińska
	Kiełbasińska at the 2023 European Indoor Championships in Istanbul
Personal information
Born	26 June 1990 (age 34); Warsaw, Poland
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	55 kg (121 lb)
Sport
Country	Poland
Sport	Athletics
Event	Sprinting
Club	SKLA Sopot (2016–); AZS-AWF Warsaw(2009–2015); Polonia Warsaw (2005–2008)
Coached by	Jarosław Skrzyszowski; (Laurent Meuwly)
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	400 m: 50.28 (2022); Indoors; 400 m: 51.10 (2022);
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Poland
Olympic Games
World Championships
European Games
European Championships
European Indoor Championships
World Relay Championships
European Team Championships
European U23 Championships
European U20 Championships
Military World Games

Anna Kiełbasińska (pronounced [ˈanna kʲɛwbaˈɕij̃ska]; born 26 June 1990)^[2] is a Polish sprinter who competed occasionally also in hurdling events. She won the bronze medal in the 400 metres as well as silver medals in the 4 x 100 m and 4 x 400 m relays at the 2022 European Championships. Kiełbasińska earned bronze for the 400 m at the 2023 European Indoor Championships. She won several major medals as part of Polish 4 x 400 m relay teams and also individual medals at European Under-20 and U23 Championships.

Kiełbasińska represented Poland at the Summer Olympics in 2012, 2016 and 2020, and at the World Athletics Championships in 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2022. She won more than 10 individual Polish national titles.

Career

Anna Kiełbasińska won the gold medal for the women's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2019 European Indoor Championships in Glasgow, alongside Iga Baumgart-Witan, Małgorzata Hołub-Kowalik and Justyna Święty-Ersetic.

At 2019 World Athletics Championships held in Doha, she won the silver medal for the women's 4 x 400 m relay, running in the heats. The team consisted of Hołub-Kowalik, Patrycja Wyciszkiewicz, Święty-Ersetic and Baumgart-Witan.

Just five months before the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021, she underwent surgery to fix a broken navicular bone in her ankle. The third-grade fracture was fixed with two screws.^[3] Despite this, at the Games she helped Poland to victory in the heats of the women’s 4 x 400 m relay, earning the silver medal alongside Baumgart-Witan, Hołub-Kowalik, Święty-Ersetic and Natalia Kaczmarek.^[4]

In February 2022, Kiełbasińska set a new Polish indoor record in the 400 metres in a time of 51.10 seconds at a meeting in Ostrava, Czech Republic.^[5]^[6]

She is based in Poland, but joins Dutch athletes, who are under the guidance of coach Laurent Meuwly, on training camps about four times a year.^[3]

Kiełbasińska suffers from alopecia areata, an auto-immune disease.^[7]

Statistics

International competitions

Representing Poland
Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
2007	European Junior Championships	Hengelo, Netherlands	5th	4 × 400 m relay	3:39.26
2008	World Junior Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	7th	200m	23.95
2008	World Junior Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	6th (h)	4 × 100 m relay	44.73
2009	European Junior Championships	Novi Sad, Serbia	3rd	200 m	23.75
2009	European Junior Championships	Novi Sad, Serbia	2nd	4 × 100 m relay	45.12
2011	European U23 Championships	Ostrava, Czech Republic	3rd	100 m	11.77
			1st	200 m	23.23
			7th	4 × 100 m relay	44.67
	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	25th (h)	200 m	23.34
	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	–	4 × 100 m relay	DNF
2012	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	31st (h)	200 m	23.67
2014	World Indoor Championships	Sopot, Poland	17th (sf)	60 m i	7.31
2015	World Championships	Beijing, China	21st (sf)	200 m	23.07
	World Championships	Beijing, China	11th (h)	4 × 100 m relay	43.20
	Military World Games	Mungyeong, South Korea	2nd	200 m	23.33
2016	European Championships	Amsterdam, Netherlands	14th (sf)	200 m	23.36
	European Championships	Amsterdam, Netherlands	7th	4 × 100 m relay	43.24
	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	25th (h)	200 m	22.95
	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	12th (h)	4 × 100 m relay	43.33
2017	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	25th (h)	200 m	23.48
	DécaNation	Angers, France	2nd	100 m	11.46
	DécaNation	Angers, France	2nd	200 m	23.68
2018	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	15th (sf)	60 m i	7.23
	European Championships	Berlin, Germany	14th (sf)	200 m	23.29
	European Championships	Berlin, Germany	6th	4 × 100 m relay	43.34
2019	European Indoor Championships	Glasgow, United Kingdom	1st	4 × 400 m relay i	3:28.77
	World Relays	Yokohama, Japan	1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:27.49
	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	34th (h)	400 m	52.25
	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	2nd	4 × 400 m relay	3:25.78¹
	Military World Games	Wuhan, China	3rd	200 m	23.33
	Military World Games	Wuhan, China	1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:27.84
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	2nd	4 x 400 m relay	3:23.10¹
2022	World Championships	Eugene, OR, United States	8th	400 m	50.81
	European Championships	Munich, Germany	3rd	400 m	50.29
			2nd	4 × 100 m relay	42.61 NR
			2nd	4 × 400 m relay	3:21.68 SB
2023	European Indoor Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	3rd	400 m i	51.25 SB
2023	European Indoor Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	3rd	4 x 400 m relay i	3:29.31

¹Time from the heats; Kiełbasińska was replaced in the final.

Personal bests

60 metres indoor – 7.21 (Toruń 2021)

100 metres – 11.22 (-0.4 m/s) (Chorzów 2022)
200 metres – 22.76 (+1.9 m/s) (La Chaux-de-Fonds 2021)
- 200 metres indoor – 23.02 (Toruń 2023)
400 metres – 50.28 (Paris 2022)
- 400 metres indoor – 51.10 (Ostrava 2022)

National titles

Polish Athletics Championships
- 100 metres: 2014
- 200 metres: 2015, 2016, 2017
- 4 x 100 m relay: 2016
- 4 x 400 m relay: 2013, 2014
Polish Indoor Athletics Championships
- 200 metres: 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
- 400 metres: 2009

References

^ "Anna K – Athlete profile". Polish Athletics. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
^ "Anna KIEŁBASIŃSKA – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Archived from the original on 24 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
^ ^a ^b Dennehy, Cathal (17 March 2023). "Anna Kielbasinska: "I want to break the 50-second barrier"". European Athletics. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
^ Phillips, Mitch (7 August 2021). "Athletics-Eleven medals for Felix as stellar U.S. team take 4x400m glory". Reuters. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
^ "Nowy halowy rekord Polski w biegu na 400 m! Wielka chwila Anny Kiełbasińskiej" (in Polish). Retrieved 3 February 2022.
^ "Kielbasinska clocks world-leading 51.10 in Ostrava". World Athletics. 3 February 2022. Archived from the original on 3 February 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
^ Anna Kiełbasińska ma łysienie plackowate. Jastrzab Zdrowie (2 March 2016). Retrieved on 2016-07-30.

External links

Anna Kiełbasińska at World Athletics
Anna Kiełbasińska at European Athletics
Anna Kiełbasińska at Diamond League
Anna Kiełbasińska at the Polish Athletic Association (in Polish)
Anna Kiełbasińska at Olympics.com

[1] "Anna K – Athlete profile". Polish Athletics. Retrieved 6 February 2022.

[WAprofile-2] "Anna KIEŁBASIŃSKA – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Archived from the original on 24 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.

[202303EAfeature-3] Dennehy, Cathal (17 March 2023). "Anna Kielbasinska: "I want to break the 50-second barrier"". European Athletics. Retrieved 17 March 2023.

[4] Phillips, Mitch (7 August 2021). "Athletics-Eleven medals for Felix as stellar U.S. team take 4x400m glory". Reuters. Retrieved 7 March 2022.

[5] "Nowy halowy rekord Polski w biegu na 400 m! Wielka chwila Anny Kiełbasińskiej" (in Polish). Retrieved 3 February 2022.

[6] "Kielbasinska clocks world-leading 51.10 in Ostrava". World Athletics. 3 February 2022. Archived from the original on 3 February 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2022.

[7] Anna Kiełbasińska ma łysienie plackowate. Jastrzab Zdrowie (2 March 2016). Retrieved on 2016-07-30.

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