Renata Knapik-Miazga | |
Nationality: | Polish |
Birth Date: | 15 July 1988 |
Birth Place: | Tarnów, Poland |
Weapon: | Épée |
Hand: | Left-handed |
Height: | 1.82 m |
Weight: | 70 kg |
Natlcoach: | Bartłomiej Język |
Club: | AZS AWF Kraków |
Headcoach: | Radosław Zawrotniak |
Country: | Poland |
Fieranking: | current ranking |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Renata Knapik-Miazga (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]
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.