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| Born | 12 February 1981 Tychy, Poland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | College of Humanities, Wroclaw, Poland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Poland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Paralympic swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability | Paraparesis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | S4, SB4, SM4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | START Katowice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Ninomyslaw Jakubczyk Wojciech Seidel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Karolina Hamer (born 12 February 1981) is a Polish Paralympic swimmer who competes in international level events. She is also a disability rights activist. [1] [2] [3]
In 2018, she publicly came out as bisexual becoming the first active Polish sportswoman to do so. [4]
Karolína Kurková is a Czech-American model and actress, known for her work as a former Victoria's Secret Angel and Vogue cover star. Mario Testino praised the "proportions of her body and her face, as well as her energy level", which he said "ma[de] her a model who could fit almost into any moment". Vogue editor Anna Wintour called her the "next supermodel".
The London Stadium is a multi-purpose outdoor stadium at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in the Stratford district of London. It is located in the Lower Lea Valley, 6 miles (10 km) east of central London. The stadium was constructed specifically for the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics, serving as the athletics venue and as the site of their opening and closing ceremonies. Following the Games, it was rebuilt for multi-purpose use and now serves primarily as the home of Premier League club West Ham United, who played at the Boleyn Ground before moving to the stadium in 2016.
Łukasz Marek Fabiański is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club West Ham United. He also played for the Poland national team from 2006 until his retirement from international duties in 2021.
The Ekstraliga is the top Polish league for women's association football teams.
Magda Linette is a Polish professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 19, achieved in March 2023. She has reached eight finals on the WTA Tour, winning three titles, the semifinal of the 2023 Australian Open, and the third round of the other majors.
Karolina Elżbieta Naja 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.
Anna Karolína Schmiedlová is a Slovak professional tennis player. She has won three singles titles on the WTA Tour, two singles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour as well as 12 singles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 12 October 2015, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 26.
Karolina Pelendritou is a visually impaired swimmer from Cyprus. She has won gold medals and broken records in national and international games as well as winning three gold medals, a silver and two bronze over four Paralympic Games. Due to her achievements she is known as the "Princess of the Pool".
Karolina Kucharczyk is a Polish Paralympic athlete who began in her sport at age twelve.
Karolina Wisniewska is a para-alpine standing skier. Born in Warsaw, she moved to Canada when she was 5 years old where she then took up skiing as a form of physical therapy for her cerebral palsy. Over the course of her skiing career, she won eight total Paralympic medals for skiing, and 18 medals at International Paralympic Committee (IPC) World Cups. At the 2002 Winter Paralympics, she earned four medals, the most ever earned by a Canadian para-alpine skier at a single Games. Wisniewska retired from the sport for a second time in May 2012 following an injury in 2011 that resulted in her missing most of the 2011/2012 skiing season.
Karolina Kowalkiewicz is a Polish mixed martial artist. She currently competes in the women’s Strawweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). She is the former KSW Women's Flyweight Champion. As of July 16, 2024, she is #15 in the UFC women's strawweight rankings.
Eleanor "Ellie" Robinson is an English retired swimmer. Competing in SB6 and S6 classification events, Robinson holds the World record and the Paralympic record in the S6 50m butterfly and the World record in the 100m, setting both at the age of 13.
Cyprus sent a delegation to compete at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016. This was the island country's eighth consecutive appearance in a Summer Paralympiad having made its debut at the 1988 Summer Paralympics. The Cypriot delegation to Rio de Janeiro consisted of two athletes: sprinter Antonis Aresti and short-distance swimmer Karolina Pelendritou. Aresti placed sixth overall in the men's 400 metres T47 event and Pelendritou came fourth in the 100 metres breaststroke SB13 competition after losing the bronze medal by 20 cm (7.9 in) in the final.
Iga Natalia Świątek is a Polish professional tennis player. She is currently ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), having held the position for a total of 122 weeks and placing her 7th on the all-time list for number of weeks spent as No. 1. Świątek has won five Grand Slam singles titles and is the only player representing Poland to win a major singles title. She has won the French Open four times and the US Open once. Świątek has won 22 singles titles, including the 2023 WTA Finals and ten WTA 1000 titles. In 2024, she became the first Polish tennis player to win an Olympic medal, earning bronze in singles at the Paris Summer Olympics.
Karolina Fortin is a retired Polish women's professional shogi player who achieved the rank of 1-dan. She is the first non-Japanese to be awarded professional status by the Japan Shogi Association.
Karolína Muchová is a Czech professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8, achieved on 11 September 2023. Muchová reached the 2023 French Open final, and has won one WTA Tour title at the 2019 Korea Open.
Brianna Elizabeth Visalli is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Danish Women's League club Aarhus GF. She has represented the United States at under-23 level. She also holds British citizenship.
Karólína Lea Vilhjálmsdóttir is an Icelandic footballer who plays as a forward for Frauen-Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen on loan from Bayern Munich and the Iceland national team.
Karolina Monika Pawliczak is a Polish lawyer and left wing politician. She was elected to the Sejm representing the constituency of Kalisz in October 2019. She took her oath of office in November 2019.
Karolina Bielawska is a Polish beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss World 2021.
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