Otylia Jędrzejczak
Otylia Jędrzejczak ( listen? / I ) ( born December 13, 1983 in Ruda Śląska, Poland) is a Polish swimmer and Olympic gold medalist in swimming.
Career
She is studying sport at the University of Warsaw and starts for the University Sports Club ASZ AWF Warszawa. Your trainer is Paweł Slominski.
Otylia Jędrzejczak fell for the first time internationally at the 1999 European Junior Championships when she was Junior European Champion in the 100 and 200 m butterfly. In the same year she won the bronze medal at the European Swimming Championships in their special discipline 200m butterfly also.
She took in 2000 at the Olympic Games in Sydney, finished the 200 m butterfly fifth.
On August 4th at the 2002 European Swimming Championships in Berlin, she became European champion in the 200m butterfly in world record time of 2 min. 5.78 sec. Was lower by three hundredths of a second faster than the previous world record holder Susie O'Neill of Australia.
At the 2003 World Championships in Barcelona she could again shine on their favorite track 200 m butterfly and win her first world title.
At the 2004 Olympics in Athens, she won on August 15, 2004 within an hour two silver medals over 100m butterfly and the 400m freestyle. On August 18, 2004, she celebrated the biggest success of her career: Otylia Jędrzejczak is Olympic champion over 200 m butterfly. It was the first Olympic gold medal in swimming for Poland.
Your achievements brought her great popularity in their home country a, it is considered as a female counterpart to the ski jumper Adam Malysz. Jędrzejczak was elected in Poland in 2004 and 2005 Athlete of the Year. The British magazine Time chose it in the list of heroes of Europe in 2004, as they had made their won in Athens gold medal for an action that benefits children with leukemia. A Gala this took place in London on 26 October 2004.
On 1 October 2005, she was seriously injured in a car accident north of Warsaw. The accident was caused by significantly speeding the car of Otylia Jędrzejczak. Otylia Jędrzejczak was the Fahrzeugführerin and her 19 - year-old brother was in the accident.
At the request of the children, she received the International Award as a Cavalier of the Order of the Smile.