Magdalena Szczepańska

Magdalena Szczepańska

Personal information
Full name	Magdalena Szczepańska
Nationality	Poland
Born	(1980-01-25) 25 January 1980 Zielona Góra, Poland
Height
Weight	62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Heptathlon
Club	AZS AWFiS Gdańsk
Coached by	Jerzy Skucha (national)
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	Heptathlon: 6115 points (2004)

Magdalena Szczepańska (born January 25, 1980 in Zielona Góra) is a retired Polish heptathlete. She won a silver medal at the 2004 European Combined Events Cup in Hengelo, Netherlands, and then represented her nation Poland in heptathlon at the Olympics in Athens a few months later, finishing in twenty-first place. Szczepańska trained under the tutelage of head coach Jerzy Skucha for the national team, while competing at AZS AWFiS Gdańsk.

Szczepańska qualified for the Polish squad in the women's heptathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Two months before the Games, she eclipsed the IAAF Olympic "B" standard and her personal record of 6115 points to place second behind gold medalist Yuliya Ignatkina of Russia at the European Cup in Hengelo, Netherlands, resulting to her official selection to the Polish Olympic team in track and field. Szczepańska started the competition in a tie for second place with U.S. heptathlete Tiffany Lott-Hogan in the 100 metres hurdles to command the medal position, but a below-par performance in the high jump slipped her out of contention for the medal to the bottom of the leaderboard, achieving only 1.67 against leader Carolina Klüft's height by just twenty-four centimetres. Szczepańska could only manage to produce substantial events for the remaining events of the competition, until she finally landed herself to twenty-first place with a total score of 6012 points.

External links

• Magdalena Szczepańska profile at IAAF