Beata Sokołowska-Kulesza

Beata Sokołowska-Kulesza

Medal record
Women's canoe sprint
Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 0 0 2 World Championships 1 4 5 European Championships 5 1 2 European Games 0 0 0 Total 6 5 8
Olympic Games
	2000 Sydney	K-2 500 m
	2004 Athens	K-2 500 m
World Championships
	1999 Milan	K-2 500 m
	1999 Milan	K-2 200 m
	2001 Poznań	K-2 200 m
	2001 Poznań	K-2 500 m
	2005 Zagreb	K-4 200 m
	1999 Milan	K-4 200 m
	1999 Milan	K-4 500 m
	2003 Gainesville	K-2 200 m
	2003 Gainesville	K-2 500 m
	2003 Gainesville	K-4 500 m
European Championships
	1999 Zagreb	K2-200 m
	1999 Zagreb	K2-250 m
	1999 Zagreb	K2-1000 m
	2000 Poznań	K2-200 m
	2000 Poznań	K2-500 m
	2001 Milan	K2-1000 m
	2000 Poznań	K2-1000 m
	2001 Milan	K2-200 m

Beata Sokołowska-Kulesza (born 10 January 1974 in Gorzów Wielkopolski) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2004. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-2 500 m event (2000, 2004).

Sokołowska-Kulesza has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning ten medals. This includes a gold (K-2 500 m: 1999), four silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001; K-2 500 m: 2001, K-4 200 m: 2005), and five bronzes (K-2 200 m: 2003, K-2 500 m: 2003, K-4 200 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1999, 2003).

For her sport achievements, she received:
Golden Cross of Merit in 2000;
Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (5th Class) in 2004.

References

• DatabaseOlympics.com profile
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05)
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
• Pkol.pl profile (in Polish)
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Beata Sokołowska-Kulesza". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.