GUBA Paulina

Date of Birth: 14 May 1991

Age: 30

Gender: Female

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Athletics	Women's Shot Put

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Olympic Stadium - Shot Put B	Women's Shot Put Qualification - Group B	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Shot Put
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	Qual. (17.70)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	Shot Put
2019	Doha, QAT	10th (18.02)
2017	London, GBR	Qual. (17.52)
2015	Beijing, CHN	11th (17.52)

European Championships

Year	Location	Shot Put
2018	Berlin, GER	1st (19.33)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	Shot Put
2019	1 x 7th, 2 x 8th, 1 x 9th
2018	1 x 2nd, 2 x 5th, 1 x 6th
2017	1 x 5th, 1 x 10th

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
2	2018	Shot Put	Birmingham, GBR	17.92
5	2018	Shot Put	Brussels, BEL	18.54
5	2018	Shot Put	Shanghai, CHN	18.25
5	2017	Shot Put	Paris Saint-Denis, FRA	17.78
6	2018	Shot Put	Monaco, MON	18.54
7	2019	Shot Put	Lausanne, SUI	17.67
8	2019	Shot Put	Stanford, CA, USA	17.54
8	2019	Shot Put	Shanghai, CHN	17.86
9	2019	Shot Put	Oslo, NOR	17.79
10	2017	Shot Put	Rome, ITA	17.15

World Athletics Continental Tour - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
3	2020	Shot Put	World Athletics Continental Tour	Ostrava, CZE	17.94
4	2020	Shot Put	World Athletics Continental Tour	Chorzow, POL	17.96

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
2	2018	Shot Put	World Challenge	Berlin, GER	18.58
2	2018	Shot Put	World Challenge	Madrid, ESP	18.81
6	2019	Shot Put	World Challenge	Berlin, GER	17.59
7	2019	Shot Put	World Challenge	Turku, FIN	17.97
8	2019	Shot Put	World Challenge	Nanjing, CHN	17.95

World Indoor Championships

Year	Location	Shot Put
2018	Birmingham, GBR	5th (18.54)

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Occupation:

Armed Forces Athlete

Jedrzej Sniadecki Academy of Physical Education and Sport in Gdansk, Poland

Languages spoken:

English, Polish

AZS UMCS Lublin [Poland]

Edmund Antczak [personal], POL, from 2010

She was forced to miss the 2021 European Indoor Championships in Torun, Poland, due to illness. (tvp.pl, 21 Feb 2021)

Her training ahead of the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Qatar, was disrupted due to a finger injury. (sport.onet.pl, 02 Oct 2019)

In February 2019 she sustained a right shoulder injury that ended her indoor season early. (niezalezna.pl, 11 Feb 2019)

In 2013 she underwent surgery on a foot injury, but the operation was unsuccessful and she required further surgery on the problem the following year. (worldathletics.org, 27 Oct 2018)

She took up athletics at an inter-school competition in 2004. She then began training in Otwock, Poland. (kurierpoludniowy.pl, 26 Feb 2010; worldathletics.org, 27 Oct 2018)

Her first coach Barbara Sierpinska spotted her talent and convinced her to take up the sport seriously. "In middle school I had to travel 25 kilometres three times a week to train." (kurierpoludniowy.pl, 26 Feb 2010; worldathletics.org, 27 Oct 2018)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (przegladsportowy.pl, 23 Jan 2019)

Winning gold at the 2018 European Championships in Berlin, Germany. (onet.pl, 08 Aug 2018)

Polish shot putter Tomasz Majewski. (przegladsportowy.pl, 08 Aug 2018)

Philosophy:

"Many people ask me why I usually don't show emotions during a competition, but I prefer to smile afterwards, not while I'm still competing." (worldathletics.org, 27 Oct 2018)

General Interest

General
RETIREMENT THOUGHTS
Speaking in 2019, she said she was contemplating retirement following the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. "I am not a young athlete anymore. I moved from the 'young and talented' category to the 'experienced' category. I want to perform at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo showing my very best, making it the best performance of my life. If I manage that, I might then end my career. I am not saying that is for definite, but it's possible." (onet.pl, 23 Jan 2019)

INJURY TROUBLE
She says her foot problem that required two operations was a major disruption to her career between 2012 and 2015. "I had to continue competing to receive financial support and I was winning national titles, but I couldn't show all I was capable of. I basically lost three years of my career because of that." (worldathletics.org, 27 Oct 2018)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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