Adrianna Sułek

Adrianna Sułek (pronounced [adrˈjan.na ˈsu.wɛk];born 3 April 1999)^[2] is a Polish athlete competing in the combined events. She won the silver medal in the pentathlon at the 2022 World Indoor Championships. Sułek placed fourth in the heptathlon at the 2022 World Championships, and took a silver at the 2002 European Championships.

Adrianna Sułek

Sułek in 2019
Personal information
Born	(1999-04-03) 3 April 1999 (age 23) Bydgoszcz, Poland
Sport
Country	Poland
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Heptathlon, pentathlon
Club	Brda Bydgoszcz^[1]
Coached by	Marek Rzepka (2022–) Marek Kubiszewski (2021) Wiesław Czapiewski (–2019)
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	Heptathlon: 6672 NR (Eugene 2022) Indoors Pentathlon: 4851 NR (Belgrade 2022) Pentathlon: 4385 NU20R (2018)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Poland World Indoor Championships 2022 Belgrade Pentathlon European Championships 2022 Munich Heptathlon European U23 Championships 2021 Tallinn Heptathlon World U20 Championships 2018 Tampere Heptathlon

She was the heptathlon 2018 World Under-20 Championships bronze medallist, and 2021 European U23 champion. Sułek won six Polish national individual titles.

Career

After two medals in her age group competitions, Adrianna Sułek had a breakthrough 2022 season. At the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade in March, the 22-year-old won the silver medal in pentathlon, breaking by 43 points Urszula Włodarczyk's 24-year-old Polish national record with her score of 4851 points.^[3]

The same year in July, she finished fourth in the heptathlon scoring 6672 points at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, beating by 56 points Małgorzata Nowak's Polish record dating back to 1985.^[4] She wrapped up her long season the following month by taking silver at the European Championships Munich 2022, where she lost injured (biceps femoris problems) only to a two-time Olympic champion Nafissatou Thiam. Sułek set in this competition personal bests in three disciplines.^[5]

In 2022, she altogether achieved four heptathlons over 6400 points and secured her first overall World Combined Events Tour victory, becoming only the second Polish athlete after Włodarczyk in 1998 to do so.^[6][7]

International competitions

Representing   Poland

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
2016	European U18 Championships	Tbilisi, Georgia	14th	Heptathlon	5282 pts
2017	European U20 Championships	Grosseto, Italy	7th	Heptathlon	5784 pts
2018	World U20 Championships	Tampere, Finland	3rd	Heptathlon	5939 pts
2019	European U23 Championships	Gävle, Sweden	6th	Heptathlon	5954 pts
2021	European Indoor Championships	Toruń, Poland	9th	Pentathlon	4231 pts
	European U23 Championships	Tallinn, Estonia	1st	Heptathlon	6305 pts
	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	16th	Heptathlon	6164 pts
2022	World Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	2nd	Pentathlon	4851 pts NR
	World Championships	Eugene, OR, United States	4th	Heptathlon	6672 pts NR
	European Championships	Munich, Germany	2nd	Heptathlon	6532 pts

Personal bests

• Heptathlon: 6672 (Eugene 2022) NR
  • 100 metres hurdles – 13.08 (+1.9 m/s, Warsaw 2022)
  • 200 metres – 23.77 (+1.4 m/s, Eugene, OR 2022)
  • 800 metres – 2:07.18 (Eugene, OR 2022)
  • High jump – 1.92 (Götzis 2022)
  • Long jump – 6.55 (+1.0 m/s, Munich 2022)
  • Shot put – 14.18 (Munich 2022)
  • Javelin throw – 42.86 (Munich 2022)

Indoors

• Pentathlon: 4851 (Belgrade 2022) NR
• Pentathlon: 4385 (2018) NU20R
  • 60 metres hurdles – 8.34 (Aubière 2022)
  • 800 metres – 2:09.56 (Belgrade 2022)
  • High jump – 1.89 (Toruń 2022)
  • Long jump – 6.43 (Belgrade 2022)
  • Shot put – 13.50 (Toruń 2022)

References

1. PZLA profile
2. Adrianna Sułek at World Athletics
3. Bonecki, Mateusz (2022-03-18). "Mamy pierwszy medal HMŚ. Adrianna Sułek z rekordem Polski!". TVP Sport (in Polish). from the original on 2022-03-18. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
4. Górecki, Mateusz (2022-07-19). "Kapitalny wynik Sułek. Poprawiła rekord Polski po... 37 latach!". TVP Sport (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-07-19.
5. "Sułek wygrała z rywalkami i kontuzją! Mamy kolejny medal ME". TVP Sport (in Polish). 2022-08-18. Retrieved 2022-09-23.
6. Petruczenko, Maciej (2022-09-20). "Adrianna Sułek z połową doli Nafissatou Thiam". Przegląd Sportowy at Onet.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-09-20.
7. "Sulek and Victor confirmed winners of World Athletics Combined Events Tour". World Athletics. 2022-09-22. Retrieved 2022-09-23.

External links

 

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• Adrianna Sułek at Olympedia