Karolina Kołeczek Explained

Karolina Kołeczek (born 15 January 1993 in Sandomierz) is a Polish athlete specialising in the 100 metres hurdles. She won silver medals at two consecutive European U23 Championships.

She has personal bests of 12.75 seconds in the 100 metres hurdles (+0.3 m/s, Chorzów 2019) and 8.03 seconds in the 60 metres hurdles (Toruń 2019).

Competition record

Representing
2010	Youth Olympic Games	Singapore	–	100 m hurdles (76.2 cm)	DNF
2011	European Junior Championships	Tallinn, Estonia	10th (sf)	100 m hurdles	14.03
2012	World Junior Championships	Barcelona, Spain	9th (sf)	100 m hurdles	13.66
2013	European U23 Championships	Tampere, Finland	bgcolor=silver	2nd	100 m hurdles	13.30
2014	European Championships	Zürich, Switzerland	15th (sf)	100 m hurdles	13.10
2015	European Indoor Championships	Prague, Czech Republic	12th (sf)	60 m hurdles	8.05
	European U23 Championships	Tallinn, Estonia	bgcolor=silver	2nd	100 m hurdles	12.92
	World Championships	Beijing, China	15th (sf)	100 m hurdles	12.97
2016	European Championships	Amsterdam, Netherlands	15th (sf)	100 m hurdles	13.09
2016	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	26th (h)	100 m hurdles	13.04
2017	European Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	19th (h)	60 m hurdles	8.28
	Universiade	Taipei, Taiwan	4th	100 m hurdles	13.31
	DécaNation	Angers, France	bgcolor=silver	2nd	100 m hurdles	13.13
2018	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	21st (sf)	60 m hurdles	8.21
2018	European Championships	Berlin, Germany	6th	100 m hurdles	13.11
2019	European Indoor Championships	Glasgow, United Kingdom	23rd (h)	60 m hurdles	8.37
2019	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	12th (sf)	100 m hurdles	12.86
2021	European Indoor Championships	Toruń, Poland	14th (sf)	60 m hurdles	8.12