Renata Knapik-Miazga

Renata Knapik-Miazga
Personal information
Born (1988-07-15) 15 July 1988
Tarnów, Poland
Weapon(s) épée
Hand left-handed
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 70 kg (150 lb)
Club Krakowski Klub Szermierzy (KKS)
FIE Ranking current ranking

Renata Knapik-Miazga (born 15 July 1988) is a Polish épée fencer, bronze medallist at the 2013 European Fencing Championships.

Career

Knapik took up fencing at a club in Kraków after playing with sticks as a child.[1] When she was 14, she was forbidden by her doctors to continue fencing because of problems with her right hand. She switched her weapon hand and went on.[1] She won both an individual and team bronze medal at the 2007 Junior European Championships, then a silver medal at the 2011 U23 European Championships.

In the senior category she climbed her first World Cup podium in 2010 with a third place in Florina. She was national champion of Poland in 2012 and 2013. At the 2013 European Championships in Zagreb she reached the quarter-finals by defeating Ukraine's Anfisa Pochkalova, then lost to Romania's Ana Maria Brânză and came away with a bronze medal.[2]

Knapik studies civil engineering from the Tadeusz Kościuszko University of Technology.

References

  1. 1 2 Jacek Zukowski (19 September 2013). "Renata Knapik, szpadzistka z walecznym sercem". Gazeta Krakowska (in Polish).
  2. Kazimierz Marcinek (19 June 2013). "Knapik trzecia w Europie!". Przegląd Sportowy (in Polish).

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