Agata Wróbel
Agata Ewa Wróbel (born August 28, 1981, in Żywiec) is a Polish weightlifter, and is a world record-breaker in the +75:kg category.
She took up weightlifting after watching the men compete in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and after learning that women's weightlifting would be an event at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
At the 2000 World Junior Championships her combined total for both the snatch and clean and jerk was a record-breaking 290:kg. She has broken no fewer than 11 world records in the sport. In 2002, she was voted 2nd for world weightlifter of the year.
As well as numerous Junior and World Championship successes, coming first in 2002, she has participated in both the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics in the Women's +75:kg category, winning a silver medal and a bronze medal respectively.
In 2003, she appeared in the do*entary "M2A – Mission to Athens", depicting her preparation to the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
After retirement from the sport, she worked in a waste sorting facility.
For her sport achievements, she received:
Golden Cross of Merit in 2000;
Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Res*uta (5th Cl*) in 2004.
References
External links
- Agata Wróbel at the Polski Komitet Olimpijski (in Polish) (archived)
- Agata Wrobel at the International Olympic Committee
- Agata Wrobel at Olympics.com
- Agata Wróbel at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Agata Wróbel at IMDb