Julia Szeremeta | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 24 August 2003 Chełm, Poland | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Poland | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Weight(s) | Featherweight | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Julia Atena Szeremeta (born 24 August 2003) is a Polish amateur boxer in the featherweight division. [1]
Julia Szeremeta | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 24 August 2003 Chełm, Poland | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Poland | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Weight(s) | Featherweight | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Julia Atena Szeremeta (born 24 August 2003) is a Polish amateur boxer in the featherweight division. [1]
At the age of five, Szeremeta began training in karate, later deciding on boxing. She initially trained at MKS II LO Chełm, and after graduating from junior high school, she became a competitor for Paco Lublin. [2]
In 2022, Szeremeta became the Polish champion in the 60 kg category, defeating Żaklina Kociołek in the final. [3] [4] [5] A year later, she competed at the 2023 European Games, where she finished in 5th place in the 57 kg category [6] after losing in the quarterfinals to Bulgarian Svetlana Staneva, [7] [8] and also became the European youth champion in the same category after defeating Bojana Gojković from Montenegro in the final. [9] [10]
In March 2024, Szeremeta qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics, [11] where she competed in the 57 kg category. In the first round she defeated Omailyn Alcala from Venezuela, [12] and in the round of 16 she defeated Australian Tina Rahimi. [13] In the quarterfinal she beat Puerto Rican Ashleyann Lozada and ensured herself of at least a bronze medal. [14] It is the first Olympic medal in boxing for Poland since 1992, when Wojciech Bartnik won a bronze. [15] In the semifinal, she won against Nesthy Petecio from the Philippines and advanced to the final, [16] which she lost to Lin Yu-ting of Chinese Taipei by unanimous decision. [17] It was the first Olympic final in boxing for Poland since Paweł Skrzecz's silver medal in 1980. [16] She was a flagbearer of Poland at the closing ceremony, together with Wiktor Głazunow. [18] After the Olympics, Szeremeta was awarded a Silver Medal of Merit for National Defence [19] and a Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. [20] She also finished seventh in the 2024 Polish Sports Personality of the Year voting. [21]
In 2025, Szeremeta participated in the World Cup in Brazil, where she won a silver medal. In the quarterfinals, she defeated American Alyssa Mendoza 5–0, [22] and in the semifinals, she defeated Kazakhstan's Ulzhan Sersenbek, also 5–0. [23] This advanced her to the final, where she faced Brazilian Jucielen Romeu. She lost the match 3–2 (29–28, 30–27, 28–29, 27–30, 27–30). [24] In September 2025, at the World Championships in Liverpool, in the 57 kg category, she reached the final, losing in the final to Jaismine Lamboria of India 1–4. [25]
In 2024, Szeremeta ran in the elections to the Lublin Voivodeship Assembly from the far-right [26] [27] Confederation and Nonpartisan Local Government Activists list, but was not elected. [2] [28]
However, the Polish far-right Confederation party she represented in local elections earlier this year re-posted a number of derogatory comments about Lin on social media immediately after the final. Szeremeta declined to comment on them when asked.
Szeremeta was a candidate for the extreme right party Konfederacja in elections earlier this year, unsuccessfully contesting a local election in Lublin.
