Paulina Guba Explained

Paulina Guba
Full Name:	Paulina Renata Guba
Birth Date:	14 May 1991
Birth Place:	Otwock, Poland^[1]
Education:	AWFiS Gdańsk^[2] Jędrzej Śniadecki Academy^[3]
Height:	1.80 m
Weight:	90 kg
Sport:	Track and field
Event:	Shot put
Club:	Start Otwock
Coach:	Edmund Antczak

Paulina Renata Guba (born 14 May 1991) is a Polish athlete specialising in the shot put. She won the silver medal at the 2015 Summer Universiade. She also represented her country at the 2015 World Championships finishing eleventh. She has achieved title Woman Shot Put European Champion 2018 from Athletics Championships played in Berlin. She also won the gold medal at Seaman third class (OR-1, pl:Marynarz) at the World Military Competition 2019 in China, what has contributed that Poland took 5th place Nations of the World.

Her personal bests in the event are 19.38 metres outdoors (Cetniewo 2018) and 18.77 metres indoors (Toruń 2018).

Competition record

Representing
2009	European Junior Championships	Novi Sad, Serbia	4th	Shot put	15.63 m
2010	World Junior Championships	Moncton, Canada	5th	Shot put	15.20 m
2011	European U23 Championships	Ostrava, Czech Republic	4th	Shot put	17.17 m
2012	World Indoor Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	13th (q)	Shot put	17.15 m
2012	European Championships	Helsinki, Finland	10th	Shot put	17.09 m
2013	European U23 Championships	Tampere, Finland	5th	Shot put	16.57 m
2015	European Indoor Championships	Prague, Czech Republic	5th	Shot put	17.47 m
	Universiade	Gwangju, South Korea	bgcolor=silver	2nd	Shot put	17.94 m
	World Championships	Beijing, China	11th	Shot put	17.52 m
2016	European Championships	Amsterdam, Netherlands	11th	Shot put	16.95 m
2016	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	13th (q)	Shot put	17.70 m
2017	European Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	6th	Shot put	18.00 m
	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	16th (q)	Shot put	17.52 m
	Universiade	Taipei, Taiwan	3rd	Shot put	17.76 m
2018	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	5th	Shot put	18.54 m
2018	European Championships	Berlin, Germany	bgcolor=gold	1st	Shot put	19.33 m
2019	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	10th	Shot put	18.02 m
2019	Military World Games	Wuhan, China	bgcolor=gold	1st	Shot put	18.22 m
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	27th (q)	Shot put	16.98 m
2022	European Championships	Munich, Germany	20th (q)	Shot put	16.66 m