Polish heptathlete (born 1999)
Adrianna Sułek-Schubert
Born (1999-04-03 ) 3 April 1999 (age 25) Bydgoszcz , PolandHeight 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) Country Poland Sport Athletics Event(s) Heptathlon , pentathlon Club Brda Bydgoszcz[ 1] Coached by Marek Rzepka (2022–) Marek Kubiszewski (2021) Wiesław Czapiewski (–2019) Personal bests
Adrianna Sułek-Schubert (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 silvers at the 2022 European Championships and 2023 European Indoor Championships .
She was the heptathlon 2018 World Under-20 Championships bronze medallist, and 2021 European U23 champion. Sułek is the Polish record holder for both the heptathlon and pentathlon. She won seven individual national titles.
Early life and background
Adrianna Sułek was brought up by her mother, a Polish philologist , in Ostromecko near Bydgoszcz . She started out playing volleyball and competed in 2014 as a middle attacker at Pałac Bydgoszcz club.[ 3] After she had been given an ultimatum to play as a libero because of her height, she switched to track and field , competing for Zawisza Bydgoszcz and coached by Wiesław Czapiewski who died in 2019.[ 4] [ 5]
Sułek graduated from XI Sports High School in Bydgoszcz and, as of 2022, was a student of Journalism and Social Communication at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin .[ 6] [ 7]
Career
2016–2022
Sułek made her international debut in 2016, finishing 14th in the heptathlon at the European Under-18 Championships held in Tbilisi , Georgia.[ 2]
Sułek won the 800 m run, becoming the pentathlon world record holder for a short while at Istanbul 2023 .
After her bronze in the event at the 2018 World Under-20 Championships and European U23 gold in 2021 , she had a breakthrough 2022 season. At the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade in March, the 22-year-old won the silver medal in the pentathlon , breaking Urszula Włodarczyk 's 24-year-old Polish national record by 43 points with her score of 4851 points. [ 8] In July, she placed fourth in the heptathlon at the World Championships held in Eugene, Oregon , totalling 6672 points and beating Małgorzata Nowak 's Polish record dating back to 1985 by 56 pts.[ 9] She wrapped up her long season the following month by taking silver at the Munich European Championships , where she lost injured (biceps femoris problems) only to two-time Olympic champion Nafissatou Thiam . Sułek set in this competition personal bests in three disciplines.[ 10] She achieved altogether four heptathlons over 6400 points that year to secure her first overall World Combined Events Tour victory, becoming only the second Polish athlete after Włodarczyk in 1998 to do so.[ 11] [ 12]
2023–present
In March 2023, Sułek broke for the first time the pentathlon 5000-point barrier to set her second Polish record that year in the event. She established personal bests in four events and scored 5014 pts at the European Indoor Championships held in Istanbul , Turkey, beating the world record set in 2012 in the same Ataköy Arena by Ukraine's Nataliya Dobrynska (5013 pts). Finishing first the 800 m run , the final of the five events in pentathlon, Sułek held the new world record for about six seconds only and had to settle for silver, however, as Thiam set even better mark of 5055 pts.[ 13] [ 14]
Personal life
She is married to a former Polish hurdler, Kacper Schubert.[ 15] In February 2024 she gave birth to their first child.[ 16]
Achievements
Adrianna Sułek (R) hurdles at the 2023 European Indoor Championships in Istanbul .
International competitions
Representing Poland
Year
Competition
Venue
Position
Event
Result
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
2023
European Indoor Championships
Istanbul , Turkey
2nd
Pentathlon
5014 pts NR
2024
Olympic Games
Paris, France
12th
Heptathlon
6226 pts
Personal bests
Outdoor
Event
Performance
Points
Venue
Date
Notes
100 m hurdles
13.08 s
1112
Warsaw , Poland
18 June 2022
High jump
1.92 m
1132
Götzis , Austria
28 May 2022
Shot put
14.44 m
823
Götzis , Austria
27 May 2023
200 metres
23.77 s
1003
Eugene, OR , United States
17 July 2022
Long jump
6.55 m
1023
Munich , Germany
18 August 2022
Javelin throw
42.86 m
722
Munich , Germany
18 August 2022
800 metres
2:07.18
1006
Eugene, OR , United States
18 July 2022
Heptathlon
6672 pts
PB total: 6821
Eugene, OR , United States
18 July 2022
NR
Circuit wins and titles, National titles
References
^ "Adrianna SUŁEK – PZLA Profile" . Polish Athletics . Retrieved 1 January 2023 .
^ a b "Adrianna SUŁEK – Athlete Profile" . World Athletics . Retrieved 1 January 2023 .
^ Fiałkowski, Szymon (27 July 2018). "Igrzyska olimpijskie są moim celem" (PDF) . MetropoliaBydgoska.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 1 April 2022 .
^ Wypijewski, Krzysztof (18 March 2022). "Rodowita bydgoszczanka, Adrianna Sułek wicemistrzynią świata! Ewa Swoboda była czwarta" . Express Bydgoski (in Polish). Retrieved 1 April 2022 .
^ Kowalczyk, Edyta; Radomski, Jakub (1 April 2022). "Polka nie zna ojca, ale kochała trenera. Nie zdążyli się pożegnać" . Przegląd Sportowy (in Polish). Onet.pl . Retrieved 1 April 2022 .
^ "Adrianna Sułek" . zs9.bydgoszcz.pl (in Polish). XI Liceum Ogólnokształcące. Retrieved 1 April 2022 .
^ "Wicemistrzyni świata – Adrianna Sułek na spotkaniu z Rektorem" . Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (in Polish). 30 March 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2022 .
^ Bonecki, Mateusz (2022-03-18). "Mamy pierwszy medal HMŚ. Adrianna Sułek z rekordem Polski!" . TVP Sport (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2022-03-18. Retrieved 2022-03-18 .
^ Górecki, Mateusz (2022-07-19). "Kapitalny wynik Sułek. Poprawiła rekord Polski po... 37 latach!" . TVP Sport (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-07-19 .
^ "Sułek wygrała z rywalkami i kontuzją! Mamy kolejny medal ME" . TVP Sport (in Polish). 2022-08-18. Retrieved 2022-09-23 .
^ Petruczenko, Maciej (2022-09-20). "Adrianna Sułek z połową doli Nafissatou Thiam" . Przegląd Sportowy at Onet.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-09-20 .
^ "Sulek and Victor confirmed winners of World Athletics Combined Events Tour" . World Athletics . 2022-09-22. Retrieved 2022-09-23 .
^ Adams, Tim (3 March 2023). "Nafi Thiam sets world record in greatest ever pentathlon" . AW . Retrieved 6 March 2023 . Adrianna Sułek held the world pentathlon record for six seconds but Nafissatou Thiam now claims that coveted crown.
^ Rowbottom, Mike (3 March 2023). "Greatest pentathlon ever! Thiam 5055 points and Sulek 5014 points in Istanbul" . European Athletics . Retrieved 3 March 2023 .
^ "Adrianna Sułek wyszła za mąż. Lekkoatletka niedługo powita na świecie swoje pierwsze dziecko [zdjęcia]" . pomorska.pl (in Polish). 10 August 2023. Retrieved 6 March 2024 .
^ "Radosna nowina! Adrianna Sułek urodziła dziecko!" . www.polsatsport.pl (in Polish). 8 February 2024. Retrieved 6 March 2024 .
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