Sylwia Gruchała
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| Born | 6 November 1981 Gdynia, Poland | |||||||||||||||||
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Sylwia Gruchała (born 6 November 1981 in Gdynia, Pomorskie) is a Polish fencer.
Biography
[edit]In the team foil she won medals at the world championships in 1998 (bronze), 1999 (silver), 2002 (silver), 2003 (gold) and 2007 (gold) as well as an Olympic silver medal in 2000. In Individual Foil she won a silver medal at the 2003 World Championship as well as an Olympic bronze medal in 2004.[1][2]
She is a soldier in the 3rd Command Support Battalion of the Polish Land Forces stationed in Warsaw. Gruchała is also part of the Leon Paul team.[3] In 2009, she posed for Polish erotic magazine CKM.[4]
Honours
[edit]For her sport achievements, she received:
Golden Cross of Merit in 2000;
Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (5th Class) in 2004.
References
[edit]- ^ "Olympics Statistics: Sylwia Gruchała". databaseolympics.com. Archived from the original on 2 November 2012. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
- ^ "Sylwia Gruchała Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
- ^ Leon Paul team Archived 2 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Sylwia Gruchała w CKM". fotosik.pl. Retrieved 24 December 2012.
External links
[edit]- Sylwia Gruchała Webpage
- Sylwia Gruchała at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
Media related to Sylwia Gruchała at Wikimedia Commons
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Categories:
- 1981 births
- Living people
- Polish female foil fencers
- Fencers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic fencers for Poland
- Olympic silver medalists for Poland
- Olympic bronze medalists for Poland
- Sportspeople from Gdańsk
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Knights of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Recipients of the Gold Cross of Merit (Poland)
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics