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| Born | 2 January 1989 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Poland | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Joanna Ewa Nowakowska (born 2 January 1989) is a Polish sports shooter who won a silver medal at the 2010 ISSF World Shooting Championships in the 50m Prone Rifle event, setting an equal world record. [1] At the 2009 European Shooting Championships she became a Junior Champion in the same event.
Nowakowska's first international selection came in March 2007 when she represented Poland at the European 10m Airgun Chmapionships in Deauville, France. She placed 63rd in the Junior Women's Air Rifle. [1]
Later in 2007, she was selected to compete in Granada at the European Championships for non-air events, qualifying for the final in the 50m 3-Position rifle event and finishing sixth.
At the 2009 European Shooting Championships she became a Junior Champion in the 50m Prone Rifle event. [1] She won silver with the Junior Women's team in the 50m 3-Position rifle event. [2]
At the 2010 ISSF World Shooting Championships she won a silver medal in 50m Prone Rifle. Nowakowska and Indian Tejaswini Sawant equalled the world record score of 597, with Sawant claiming the gold by tie-breaking on inner-tens. [3] [4] [5]
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