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Renata Knapik-Miazga
Personal information
Born (1988-07-15) 15 July 1988 (age 36)
Tarnów, Poland
NationalityPolish
Height1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
CountryPoland
WeaponÉpée
HandLeft-handed
National coachBartłomiej Język
ClubAZS AWF Kraków
Head coachRadosław Zawrotniak
FIE rankingcurrent ranking
Medal record
Women's épée
Representing  Poland
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Paris Team
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Milan Team
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Leipzig Team
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Cairo Team
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Düsseldorf Team
Silver medal – second place 2018 Novi Sad Team
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Zagreb Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Toruń Individual

Renata Knapik-Miazga (née Knapik; born 15 July 1988) is a Polish épée fencer. She participated in the 2020 and the 2024 Summer Olympics, winning the bronze medal in the épée team competition at the latter.[1][2]

Career

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Knapik took up fencing at a club in Kraków after playing with sticks as a child.[3] 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.[3] 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.[4]

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

See also

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References

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  1. ^ https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/martyna-swatowska-wenglarczyk_1894214 [bare URL]
  2. ^ Pobożniak, Jakub (30 July 2024). "Szpadzistki lubią brąz! Mamy drugi medal na IO!". sport.tvp.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 30 July 2024.
  3. ^ a b Jacek Zukowski (19 September 2013). "Renata Knapik, szpadzistka z walecznym sercem". Gazeta Krakowska (in Polish).
  4. ^ Kazimierz Marcinek (19 June 2013). "Knapik trzecia w Europie!". Przegląd Sportowy (in Polish).
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