Maria Andrejczyk
Maria Magdalena Andrejczyk is a Polish track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw. She is a three-time Olympian and won the silver medal in the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's javelin throw|javelin throw event] at the Athletics at the 2020 [Summer Olympics – Women's javelin throw|2020 Summer Olympics]. Andrejczyk is also a European Team Championships silver medalist and European Junior Championships gold medalist. Her personal best throw of 71.40 m, set in 2021, is the Polish record and ranks her third on the women's world all-time list.
Career
Andrejczyk competed at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing without qualifying for the final. She won the gold medal at the 2015 European Junior Championships.Andrejczyk represented Poland at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. On 16 August 2016, she achieved her personal best and a new Polish national record – 67.11 metres – while competing in the qualifying round. She went on to finish fourth in the final, missing out on a bronze medal by just two centimetres.
Soon after the Olympics she underwent an operation on the injured shoulder and lost the entire 2017 season. She returned to competition in June 2018 but could not build a good enough form for the 2018 European Championships in Berlin. The next season marked an improvement as she finished second at the 2019 European Team Championships Super League held on home soil in Bydgoszcz and qualified for the 2019 World Championships in Doha, where, however, she was eliminated in the qualifying round.
In the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Andrejczyk won the silver medal in the women's javelin throw