Karolina Naja
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Full name | Karolina Elżbieta Naja | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Polish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Tychy, Poland | 5 February 1990|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Poland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Sprint kayak | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | K-2 200 m, K-2 500 m, K-2 1000 m, K-4 500 m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | AZS-AWF | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Karolina Elżbieta Naja (Polish pronunciation: [karɔˈlina ˈnaja]; born 5 February 1990) is a Polish sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal in Women's K-4 500 metres, and silver medal in Women's K-2 500 metres.[1]
Career
[edit]She took up canoeing in her home town of Tychy in 2001.[2]
Naja and the Polish K-4 500 m team won the bronze medal at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships.[3]
At the 2011 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships Naja and Magdalena Krukowska won the silver medal in the K-2 200 m.[4] The Polish team Naja was a member of also won bronze in the K1 4 × 200m relay.[4]
She won the bronze medal in K-2 500 m event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London with Beata Mikołajczyk.[5] The women's K-4 500 m team Naja was part of finished in 4th place in London. At that year's European Championships Naja and Mikołajczyk won gold in the K-2 1000 m and bronze in the K-2 500 m.[6]
Naja and Mikołajczyk won a silver medal in the K-2 200 m event at the 2013 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Duisburg, along with a bronze in the K-2 500 m.[7] The Polish team Naja was a member of also won silver in the K1 4 × 200m relay.[7] At the European Championships that year, Naja and Mikołajczyk won the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m.[8] Naja won the silver medal in the K-2 200 m with Magdalena Krukowska.[8]
At the 2014 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, she won a silver medal in the women's K-4 500 m team, with Mikołajczyk, Marta Walczykiewicz and Edyta Dzieniszewska, and a bronze with Mikołajczyk in the K-2 500 m.[9] The Polish team Naja was a member of also won the K1 4 × 200m relay.[2] Naja and Mikołajczyk won silver in the K-2 500 m and were part of the Polish K-4 500 m team that won the silver medal at the 2014 European Championships.[10]
In June 2015, she competed in the inaugural European Games, for Poland in canoe sprint, more specifically, the women's K-4 500m with Ewelina Wojnarowska, Edyta Dzieniszewska, and Beata Mikołajczyk. She earned a bronze medal. That year Naja and Mikołajczyk won the gold medal in the K-2 500 m and silver medals in the K-2 200 m in the K-2 1000 m at the European Championships.[11]
At the 2016 Olympic Games, Naja again won bronze with Mikołajczyk in the K-2 500 m event.[5] This time, the K-4 500 m team Naja was part of finished in 9th.
References
[edit]- ^ "Canoe Sprint - NAJA Karolina". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 4 August 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ a b "Karolina Naja". ICF - Planet Canoe. 4 August 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
- ^ "2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships Results". www.canoeresults.eu. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
- ^ a b "2011 Canoe Sprint World Championship Results". www.canoeresults.eu. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
- ^ a b "Karolina Naja Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
- ^ "2012 European Championships". www.canoeresults.eu. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
- ^ a b "2013 ICF Sprint Canoe World Championships Results" (PDF). results.imas-sport.com. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
- ^ a b "2013 European Championship Results". www.canoeresults.eu. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
- ^ "2014 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships Results" (PDF). www.canoeicf.com. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
- ^ "2013 European Championships Results". www.canoeresults.eu. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
- ^ "2015 European Championships Results". www.canoeresults.eu. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
External links
[edit]Media related to Karolina Naja at Wikimedia Commons
- Karolina Naja at the International Canoe Federation
- Karolina Naja at Olympics.com
- Karolina Naja at Olympedia
- Karolina Naja at the Polish Olympic Committee (archived) (in Polish)
- 1990 births
- Living people
- Polish female canoeists
- Olympic canoeists for Poland
- Olympic silver medalists for Poland
- Olympic bronze medalists for Poland
- Olympic medalists in canoeing
- Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
- European Games bronze medalists for Poland
- European Games medalists in canoeing
- Canoeists at the 2015 European Games
- Canoeists at the 2019 European Games
- Canoeists at the 2023 European Games
- Sportspeople from Tychy
- European Games gold medalists for Poland
- 21st-century Polish sportswomen
- Canoeists at the 2024 Summer Olympics