Karolina Naja

Karolina Elżbieta Naja (Polish pronunciation: [karɔˈlina ˈnaja]; born 5 February 1990) is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She has won two Olympic bronze medals.

Karolina Naja
Personal information
NationalityPolish
Born (1990-02-05) 5 February 1990
Tychy, Poland
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
CountryPoland
SportSprint kayak
Event(s)K-2 200 m, K-2 500 m, K-2 1000 m, K-4 500 m
ClubAZS-AWF

Career

She took up canoeing in her home town of Tychy in 2001.[1]

Naja and the Polish K-4 500 m team won the bronze medal at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships.[2]

At the 2011 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships Naja and Magdalena Krukowska won the silver medal in the K-2 200 m.[3] The Polish team Naja was a member of also won bronze in the K1 4 x 200m relay.[3]

She won the bronze medal in K-2 500 m event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London with Beata Mikołajczyk.[4] 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.[5]

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.[6] The Polish team Naja was a member of also won silver in the K1 4 x 200m relay.[6] At the European Championships that year, Naja and Mikołajczyk won the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m.[7] Naja won the silver medal in the K-2 200 m with Magdalena Krukowska.[7]

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.[8] The Polish team Naja was a member of also won the K1 4 x 200m relay.[1] 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.[9]

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.[10]

At the 2016 Olympic Games, Naja again won bronze with Mikołajczyk in the K-2 500 m event.[4] This time, the K-4 500 m team Naja was part of finished in 9th.

References
  1. "Karolina Naja". ICF - Planet Canoe. 2016-08-04. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
  2. "2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships Results". www.canoeresults.eu. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
  3. "2011 Canoe Sprint World Championship Results". www.canoeresults.eu. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
  4. "Karolina Naja Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
  5. "2012 European Championships". www.canoeresults.eu. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
  6. "2013 ICF Sprint Canoe World Championships Results" (PDF). results.imas-sport.com. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  7. "2013 European Championship Results". www.canoeresults.eu. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
  8. "2014 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships Results" (PDF). www.canoeicf.com. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  9. "2013 European Championships Results". www.canoeresults.eu. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
  10. "2015 European Championships Results". www.canoeresults.eu. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
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