Irena Więckowska

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Irena Więckowska
Personal information
Nationality Poland
Born (1982-02-17) 17 February 1982 (age 42)
Gdańsk, Poland
Height1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight54 kg (119 lb)
Sport
SportFencing
EventSabre
ClubAZS Warszawa

Irena Więckowska (born 17 February 1982 in Gdańsk) is a Polish sabre fencer.[1] Wieckowska represented Poland at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in two sabre events.

For her first event, the women's individual sabre, Wieckowska defeated Ireland's Siobhan Byrne and Russia's Elena Nechaeva in the preliminaries, before losing out the preliminary round of sixteen to Chinese fencer Bao Yingying, with a score of 6–15.[2] Few days later, she joined with her fellow fencers and teammates Bogna Jóźwiak and Aleksandra Socha for the women's team sabre. Wieckowska and her team, however, lost the fifth place match to the Russian team (led by Sofiya Velikaya), with a total score of 36 touches.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Irena Więckowska". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
  2. ^ "Women's Individual Sabre – Round of 16". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 30 March 2013. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
  3. ^ "Women's Team Sabre – Placement 5–6 Official". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 20 August 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2012.

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