Julia Walczyk
Polish fencer (born 1997)
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Julia Walczyk-Klimaszyk (born 28 October 1997)[1] is a Polish fencer.
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| Born | 28 October 1997 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Fencing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country | Poland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hand | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
In 2015, she won the bronze medal in the women's team foil event at the Junior World Fencing Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.[2] That same year, she represented Poland at the 2015 European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan,[1] competing in the women's foil event where she was eliminated by Natalia Sheppard of Great Britain.[3]
In 2017, she won the gold medal in the junior women's team foil event at the Junior and Cadet World Fencing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. In the same year, she also won the bronze medal in the women's team foil event at the 2017 Summer Universiade held in Taipei, Taiwan[4] and competed in the women's individual foil event. In 2019, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's foil event at the Military World Games held in Wuhan, China[5] and also won the bronze medal in the women's team event, alongside Bogna Jóźwiak, Hanna Łyczbińska and Martyna Synoradzka.[5]
She went on to compete at the 2022 European Fencing Championships held in Antalya, Turkey and the 2022 World Fencing Championships held in Cairo, Egypt.
