Klaudia Zwolińska
Polish kayaker (born 1998)
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Klaudia Kinga Zwolińska (born 18 December 1998) is a Polish slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2013.[3] She won the silver medal in the K1 event in Paris at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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| Nationality | Polish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 December 1998 Nowy Sącz, Poland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Poland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Canoe slalom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | K1, C1, Kayak cross | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | KS Start Nowy Sącz[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Piotr Kożuch[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
Zwolińska is a two-time Olympian. In July 2021 she represented Poland at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[2] Zwolińska qualified 10th fastest for the final of the K1 event and finished in 5th place after incurring two 2-second penalties.[4][5]
Zwolińska secured a silver medal in the K1 event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, her country's first medal of the Games, behind Australia's Jessica Fox.[6] It was Poland's second Olympic canoe slalom medal, having previously got on the podium only in the men's C2 event at the 2000 Summer Olympics.[7] She also finished 17th in the C1 event and 22nd in kayak cross.
Zwolińska won six medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, with two golds (C1: 2025, K1: 2025) and four bronzes (C1: 2026, K1: 2023,[8] kayak cross: 2025, K1 team: 2022[9]).
She also won a total of 9 medals (2 golds, 5 silvers and 2 bronze) at the European Canoe Slalom Championships, including two silver medals at the 2023 European Games in Kraków (C1 and K1).
In June 2021, she became the first ever Polish woman to win a Canoe Slalom World Cup, winning the opening round of the 2021 season ahead of compatriot Natalia Pacierpnik in the K1 category in Prague. Until that event, a Polish woman had never even appeared on the podium at a World Cup event.[10] In June 2022, Zwolińska won another World Cup medal, this time silver, in the extreme slalom event in Prague, behind Czech canoeist Tereza Fišerová.[11] In October 2023, Zwolińska won a World Cup event bronze in the K1 event at the pre-Olympic test event at Vaires-sur-Marne in France.[12]
Zwolińska competed at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in the Head-to-Head Sprint and Obstacle Slalom events, where she finished 17th and 7th, respectively.[13] Zwolińska also won the K1 event at the 2015 and 2016 Junior European Championships and the 2016 Junior World Championships.[14]
