Ewa Swoboda

Ewa Nikola Swoboda (Polish pronunciation: [ˈɛva ˈnikɔla sfɔˈbɔda]; born 26 July 1997)[2] is a Polish track and field sprinter who competes in the short sprints. She holds the world junior record of 7.07 seconds in the 60 metres. She was a 100 metres finalist at the World Youth Championships in Athletics, World Junior Championships in Athletics and Summer Youth Olympics. She was a 60 m finalist in her senior debut at the 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships.

Ewa Swoboda
Personal information
Full nameEwa Nikola Swoboda
NationalityPolish
Born (1997-07-26) July 26, 1997
Żory, Poland
Height1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight55 kg (121 lb)
Sport
Country Poland
SportTrack and field
Event(s)Sprint
ClubAZS AWF Katowice, formerly UKS Czwórka Żory [1]
Coached byIwona Krupa
Medal record
Athletics
Representing the  Poland
European Indoor Championships
2019 Glasgow60 m
2017 Belgrade60 m
European Team Championships
2015 Cheboksary100 m
2019 Bydgoszcz100 m
World Junior Championships
2016 Bydgoszcz100 m
European U23 Championships
2017 Bydgoszcz 100 m
2019 Gävle 100 m
2019 Gävle 4 x 100 m
Updated on 15 July 2019.

Career
Swoboda at the 2015 indoor Pedro's Cup meet in Poland
Swodoba at the ISTAF Berlin in 2019

Swoboda started competing in athletics from a young age and after joining the UKS Czwórka Żory athletics club she began training under her coach Iwona Krupa. She won the Polish youth titles in the 100 metres in 2011 and 2012. The following year she won the national indoor junior 200 metres race.[3] Her international debut came at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics and she placed fourth in the girls' 100 m with a run of 11.61 seconds; she was the best European in the race.[4] After this she ran a personal best and Polish junior record of 11.54 seconds in the 100 m at the Polish Youth Olympic Days, where she completed a sprint double.[5]

At the start of 2014 she claimed the Polish indoor junior title in the 60 metres.[3] Outdoors, at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics she was fifth in the 100 m, and failed to finish in the 200 m.[6] At the European Youth Olympic Trials in Baku she won the 100 m and was runner-up in the 200 m.[3] This made her one of the favourites for the 2014 Youth Olympics, and she ran a new best of 11.30 seconds in her opening race – making her the seconds fastest junior athlete that year.[7] However, her success was short-lived in that event as she was disqualified in the 100 m final for a false start in the midst of crowd noise.[2][8]

Swoboda won her first senior national title at the 2015 Polish Indoor Championships and she also set a 60 metres European junior record of 7.21 seconds during the competition, which was also a world best for a seventeen-year-old.[9][10] This gained her selection for the 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships – her first senior appearance for Poland. Still aged seventeen, she made the final of the 60 m and ran another personal best of 7.20 seconds, improving her European junior record by 0.01 seconds. This was the joint fastest time achieved by a Polish woman in the competition's history – matching that of Irena Szewińska and Daria Korczyńska (both of whom were medallists).[11]

In March 2018 it was announced that Swoboda would be upgraded to silver medalist at the 2017 European Indoor Championship, after Ukraine's Olesya Povh's was disqualified for the use of unauthorized substances.[12]

Personal bests
Outdoor
Indoor

International competitions
YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
2013 World Youth Championships Donetsk, Ukraine 4th 100 m 11.61
2014 World Junior Championships Eugene, Oregon, United States 5th 100m 11.59 (-1.0 m/s)
— 200m DNF
— 4×100m relay DNF
Youth Olympics Nanjing, China DQ 100 m False start
2015 European Indoor Championships Prague, Czech Republic 8th 60 m 7.20 AJR
European Junior Championships Eskilstuna, Sweden 1st 100 m 11.52
2nd 4x100 m relay 45.28
2016 European Championships Amsterdam, Netherlands 7th 4x100 m relay 43.24
World U20 Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland 2nd 100 11.12
4th 4x100 m relay 44.81
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 15th (sf) 100 m 11.18
13th (h) 4x100 m relay 43.33
2017 European Indoor Championships Belgrade, Serbia 2nd 60 m 7.10 SB
European U23 Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland 1st 100 m 11.42
4th 4x100 m relay 44.21
World Championships London, United Kingdom 24th (sf) 100 m 11.35
2018 World Indoor Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom 16th (sf) 60 m 7.25
European Championships Berlin, Germany 11th (sf) 100 m 11.30
6th 4 × 100 m relay 43.34
2019 European Indoor Championships Glasgow, Scotland 1st 60 m 7.09
World Relays Yokohama, Japan – 4 × 100 m relay DNF
European U23 Championships Gävle, Sweden 1st 100 m 11.15
3rd 4 × 100 m relay 44.08
World Championships Doha, Qatar 16th (sf) 100 m 11.27

National titles

References
  2. SWOBODA Ewa Nikola Archived 2015-02-14 at the Wayback Machine. Nanjing2014. Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  3. Ewa Swoboda. Domtel Sport. Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  4. Westbrook upsets the odds in the girls' 100m. IAAF (2013-07-11). Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  5. Ogólnopolska Olimpiada Młodzieży - medaliści (in Polish). Bieganie (2013-07-29). Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  6. Ewa Swoboda Honours. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  7. Landells, Steve (2014-08-21). Chepngetich, Halasz, Sebsibe and Swoboda continue their Youth Olympic Games gold medal quest. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  8. Landells, Steve (2014-08-23). Hyde sets 110m hurdles world youth best at Youth Olympic games. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  9. Swoboda soars into European history. European Athletics (2015-02-23). Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  10. Mulkeen, Jon (2015-02-21). Licwinko, Bascou and Storl shine on first day of national indoor champs. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  11. Petruczenko, Maciej (2015-03-10). Osiemnaście mieć lat to nie grzech. Przeglad Sportowy. Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  12. "Swoboda wicemistrzynią Europy!". polsatsport.pl. Polsat Sport. 16 March 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
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