Agata Wróbel
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Representing  Poland
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2000 Sydney | 75 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
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2004 Athens | 75 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
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2002 Warsaw | 75 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
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1999 Athens | 75 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
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2001 Antalya | 75 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
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1999 La Coruña | 75 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
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2002 Antalya | 75 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
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2004 Kyiv | 75 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
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2003 Loutraki | 75 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
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1998 Riesa | 75 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
Agata Ewa Wróbel (born August 28, 1981, in Żywiec) is a Polish weightlifter, and is a world record-breaker in the 75 kg category.
She took up weightlifting after watching the men compete in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and after learning that women's weightlifting would be an event at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
At the 2000 World Junior Championships her combined total for both the snatch and clean and jerk was a record-breaking 290 kg. She has broken no fewer than 11 world records in the sport. In 2002, she was voted 2nd for world weightlifter of the year.
As well as numerous Junior and World Championship successes, coming first in 2002, she has participated in both the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics in the Women's 75 kg category, winning a silver medal and a bronze medal respectively.
In 2003, she appeared in the [French] documentary "M2A – Mission to Athens", depicting her preparation to the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
After retirement from the sport, she worked in a waste sorting facility.[1]
For her sport achievements, she received:
Golden Cross of Merit in 2000;
Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (5th Class) in 2004.
References
[edit]- ^ onet.pl (16 October 2020). "Co robią znani polscy sportowcy na emeryturze? Wuefista, ratownik medyczny i kierowca autobusu" (in Polish).
External links
[edit]- Agata Wróbel at Olympedia
- Agata Wróbel at Olympics.com
- Agata Wróbel at OlympicChannel.com (archived)
- Agata Wróbel at Olympic.org (archived)
- Agata Wróbel at the Polski Komitet Olimpijski (archive) (in Polish)
- Agata Wróbel at IMDb
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- 1981 births
- Living people
- Polish female weightlifters
- Weightlifters at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic weightlifters for Poland
- Olympic silver medalists for Poland
- Olympic bronze medalists for Poland
- People from Żywiec
- Olympic medalists in weightlifting
- Knights of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Recipients of the Gold Cross of Merit (Poland)
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Silesian Voivodeship
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- European Weightlifting Championships medalists
- World Weightlifting Championships medalists
- 21st-century Polish sportswomen