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Born | 6 July 2006 | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Sprint | ||||||||||||||
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Personal best | 400m: 52.98 (2024) | ||||||||||||||
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Wiktoria Gajosz (born 6 July 2006) is a Polish sprinter. [1]
In July 2024, she set a Polish national U20 record, and an U20 world leading time, of 36.82 seconds for the 300 metres, in Warsaw. [2] [3] That month, she won the Polish U20 400 metres title in Radom in 2024. [4] In winning the individual race she also ran a personal best of 52.98 seconds. At the championships, she was also part of the team that set a new Polish club U20 record in the women’s 4x100m relay and won the 4x400 metres relay. [5] [6]
She was a silver medalist at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in the Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay in August 2024. [7] At the Games, she also placed fourth in the final of the women’s 4x400 metres relay. [8]
A member of Tomasovia Tomaszów Lubelski, she attended IV Liceum Ogólnokształcące in Chełm. [9]
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