Ewa Swoboda
Swoboda at the 2016 indoor Pedro's Cup
Swoboda at the 2016 indoor Pedro's Cup
Personal information
Full nameEwa Nikola Swoboda
Born (1997-07-26) July 26, 1997 (age 26)
Żory, Poland
Height1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight55 kg (121 lb)
Sport
CountryPoland
SportTrack and field
EventSprint
ClubAZS AWF Katowice, formerly UKS Czwórka Żory [1]
Coached byIwona Krupa
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Poland
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2022 Munich 4×100 m relay
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Glasgow 60 m
Silver medal – second place 2017 Belgrade 60 m
Silver medal – second place 2023 Istanbul 60 m
European Games
Gold medal – first place 2023 Kraków–Małopolska 100 m
Silver medal – second place 2023 Kraków–Małopolska 4×100 m relay
European U23 Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 Bydgoszcz 100 m
Gold medal – first place 2019 Gävle 100 m
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Gävle 4x100 m relay
World Junior Championships
Silver medal – second place 2016 Bydgoszcz 100 m

Ewa Nikola Swoboda (Polish pronunciation: [ˈɛva ˈnikɔla sfɔˈbɔda]; born 26 July 1997)[2] is a Polish track and field sprinter who specialises in the short sprints. She is a three-time European Indoor Championships medallist in the 60 metres, having won the gold medal in 2019 and silvers in 2017 and 2023.

The 17-year-old was a finalist in the 60 m in her senior debut at the 2015 European Indoor Championships. Still 17, she became the 2015 European junior champion over the 100 metres to take the silver medal at the 2016 World Junior Championships. She twice won the event at the European U23 Championships (2017, 2019). Swoboda holds the world junior record of 7.07 seconds and the Polish record of 6.99 seconds in the 60 metres.[3] She is a multiple medallist of national outdoor and indoor championships.

Career

Ewa 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.[4] 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.[5] 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.[6]

At the start of 2014 she claimed the Polish indoor junior title in the 60 metres.[4] Outdoors, at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics she was fifth in the 100 m, and failed to finish in the 200 m.[7] At the European Youth Olympic Trials in Baku she won the 100 m and was runner-up in the 200 m.[4] 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.[8] 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][9]

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.[10][11] 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).[12]

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.[13]

She was unable to participate at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Toruń after testing positive to COVID-19 shortly before the start of the championships.[14] Swoboda also did not compete at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics due to injury.[15]

On 11 February 2022, she broke the Polish national record in the 60 meters twice at the Orlen Cup meeting in Łódź and set a new one by achieving 7.00 seconds.[16] On 5 March, she broke the record again at the Polish Indoor Championships in Toruń with a time of 6.99 seconds, which was the tenth best result in the history of the competition.[17]

She placed fourth at the 2022 World Indoor Championships held in Belgrade in a time of 7.04 seconds. The same time was measured for the fifth and sixth woman while Swoboda lost the bronze medal by 0.002 s.[18]

At the Diamond League meeting at the Silesian Stadium in Chorzów on 16 July 2023, she ran her first sub-11 second 100m, as she placed third in a personal best of 10.94 seconds, just 0.01 adrift of Ewa Kasprzyk's Polish national record set in 1986.

At the 2023 World Athletics Championships she claimed sixth place in the Women's 100 metres achieving 10.97 seconds, the fastest result by a European woman.[19]

Achievements

Personal bests

Indoor

International competitions

Swoboda won the gold medal in the 60 m at the 2019 European Indoor Championships in Glasgow; Dafne Schippers (L), Asha Philip (R)
Ewa Swodoba at the ISTAF Berlin in 2019.
Representing  Poland
Year Competition Venue Position Event Result Notes
2013 World Youth Championships Donetsk, Ukraine 4th 100 m 11.61
2014 World Junior Championships Eugene, OR, United States 5th 100 m 11.59 (-1.0 m/s)
— 200 m DNF
— 4 × 100 m relay DNF
Youth Olympics Nanjing, China — 100 m DQ False start
(h NU18R)
2015 European Indoor Championships Prague, Czech Republic 8th 60 m 7.20 AU20R
European Team Championships, Super League Cheboksary, Russia 3rd 100 m 11.48
4th 4 x 100 m relay 43.28
European Junior Championships Eskilstuna, Sweden 1st 100 m 11.52
2nd 4 x 100 m relay 45.28
2016 European Championships Amsterdam, Netherlands 7th 4 x 100 m relay 43.24
World Junior Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland 2nd 100 m 11.12 NU20R
4th 4 x 100 m relay 44.81
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 15th (sf) 100 m 11.18
13th (h) 4 x 100 m relay 43.33
2017 European Indoor Championships Belgrade, Serbia 2nd 60 m 7.10 SB
European Team Championships, Super League Lille, France — 100 m DQ
2nd 4 x 100 m relay 43.07
European U23 Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland 1st 100 m 11.42
4th 4 x 100 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 SB
3rd 4 × 100 m relay 44.08 SB
European Team Championships, Super League Bydgoszcz, Poland 3rd 100 m 11.35
6th 4 × 100 m relay 44.23
World Championships Doha, Qatar 16th (sf) 100 m 11.27
2022 World Indoor Championships Belgrade, Serbia 4th 60 m 7.04
World Championships Eugene, OR, United States 12th (sf) 100 m 11.08
11th (h) 4 × 100 m relay 43.19
European Championships Munich, Germany 4th 100 m 11.18
2nd 4 × 100 m relay 42.61 NR
2023 European Indoor Championships Istanbul, Turkey 2nd 60 m 7.09 =SB
World Championships Budapest, Hungary 6th 100 m 10.97
5th 4 × 100 m relay 42.66

National titles

References

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  3. ^ "Ewa Swoboda flashes to 6.99 at 2022 Polish Indoor Championships". Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  4. ^ a b c Ewa Swoboda. Domtel Sport. Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  5. ^ Westbrook upsets the odds in the girls' 100m. IAAF (2013-07-11). Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  6. ^ Ogólnopolska Olimpiada Młodzieży - medaliści (in Polish). Bieganie (2013-07-29). Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  7. ^ Ewa Swoboda Honours. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  8. ^ Landells, Steve (2014-08-21). Chepngetich, Halasz, Sebsibe and Swoboda continue their Youth Olympic Games gold medal quest. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  9. ^ Landells, Steve (2014-08-23). Hyde sets 110m hurdles world youth best at Youth Olympic games. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  10. ^ Swoboda soars into European history. European Athletics (2015-02-23). Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  11. ^ Mulkeen, Jon (2015-02-21). Licwinko, Bascou and Storl shine on first day of national indoor champs. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  12. ^ Petruczenko, Maciej (2015-03-10). Osiemnaście mieć lat to nie grzech. Przeglad Sportowy. Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
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  14. ^ "Ewa Swoboda zakażona koronawirusem. Nie wystartuje na HME w Toruniu" (in Polish). Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  15. ^ "Swoboda speeds to world-leading 7.00 over 60m in Lodz". World Athletics. 11 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  16. ^ "Swoboda rockets to 7.00 60m clocking on her comeback race in Lodz". European Athletics. 11 February 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
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  18. ^ Crumley, Euan (18 March 2022). "Special run means the world to Kambundji". AW. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  19. ^ "Sukces poprzedzony łazmi. Ewa Swoboda w finale biegu na 100 metrów [WIDEO]". pap.pl (in Polish). 22 August 2023. Retrieved 22 August 2023.

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