DROZDZ Kinga

Wheelchair Fencing

Date of Birth: 6 Sep 1994

Age: 26

Gender: Female

Sport Class: A

Place of birth: BEDZIN

Birth Country:

Poland

Place of residence : WARSAW

Residence Country:

Poland

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Wheelchair Fencing	Women's Épée Individual - Category A	13
	Women's Sabre Individual - Category A	7
	Women's Épée Team POL Poland	6

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
Followed By	Makuhari Messe B Piste Red 1	Women's Sabre Individual - Category A Preliminary Pool 1 #3 CAN MOREL RSMOREL Ruth Sylvie Sport Class: A 0 POL DROZDZ KDROZDZ Kinga Sport Class: A 5	Finished
Followed By	Makuhari Messe B Piste Red 1	Women's Sabre Individual - Category A Preliminary Pool 1 #4 GEO TIBILASHVILI NTIBILASHVILI Nino Sport Class: A 1 POL DROZDZ KDROZDZ Kinga Sport Class: A 5	Finished
	Makuhari Messe B Piste Red 2	Women's Sabre Individual - Category A Preliminary Pool 1 #6 POL DROZDZ KDROZDZ Kinga Sport Class: A 3 CHN GU HGU Haiyan Sport Class: A 5	Finished
Followed By	Makuhari Messe B Piste Red 2	Women's Sabre Individual - Category A Preliminary Pool 1 #7 POL DROZDZ KDROZDZ Kinga Sport Class: A 5 RPC SYCHEVA ESYCHEVA Evgeniya Sport Class: A 3	Finished
	Makuhari Messe B Piste Green 2	Women's Sabre Individual - Category A Quarterfinal #40 POL DROZDZ KDROZDZ Kinga Sport Class: A 14 HUN HAJMASI EAHAJMASI Eva Andrea Sport Class: A 15	Finished
Followed By	Makuhari Messe B Piste Blue 2	Women's Épée Individual - Category A Preliminary Pool 3 #30 CHN RONG JRONG Jing Sport Class: A 5 POL DROZDZ KDROZDZ Kinga Sport Class: A 3	Finished
Followed By	Makuhari Messe B Piste Blue 2	Women's Épée Individual - Category A Preliminary Pool 3 #31 RPC EVDOKIMOVA AEVDOKIMOVA Alena Sport Class: A 5 POL DROZDZ KDROZDZ Kinga Sport Class: A 3	Finished
Followed By	Makuhari Messe B Piste Blue 2	Women's Épée Individual - Category A Preliminary Pool 3 #33 POL DROZDZ KDROZDZ Kinga Sport Class: A 3 HUN VERES AVERES Amarilla Sport Class: A 5	Finished
Followed By	Makuhari Messe B Piste Blue 2	Women's Épée Individual - Category A Preliminary Pool 3 #34 POL DROZDZ KDROZDZ Kinga Sport Class: A 5 JPN MATSUMOTO MMATSUMOTO Mieko Sport Class: A 3	Finished
Followed By	Makuhari Messe B Piste Blue 2	Women's Épée Individual - Category A Preliminary Pool 3 #35 POL DROZDZ KDROZDZ Kinga Sport Class: A 4 GBR COLLIS-McCANN GCOLLIS-McCANN Gemma Sport Class: A 5	Finished
	Makuhari Messe B Piste Blue 1 & 2	Women's Épée Team Preliminary Pool 2 #10 POL Poland 31 RPC RPC 44	Finished
	Makuhari Messe B Piste Blue 1 & 2	Women's Épée Team Preliminary Pool 2 #11 POL Poland 40 HKG Hong Kong, China 45	Finished
	Makuhari Messe B Piste Red 1 & 2	Women's Épée Team Preliminary Pool 2 #12 POL Poland JPN Japan	Cancelled

Biographical Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location
World Championships
2	Sabre Individual - Category A	2019	Cheongju, KOR
3	Women's Team Sabre	2021	Warsaw, POL
4	Women's Team Sabre	2019	Cheongju, KOR
7	Epee Team	2019	Cheongju, KOR
25	Epee Individual - Category A	2019	Cheongju, KOR
European Championships
5	Women's Team Sabre	2018	Terni, ITA
6	Sabre Individual - Category A	2018	Terni, ITA

Occupation:

Athlete, Coordinator

Aviation Administration - War Studies Academy, Warsaw, POL

Languages spoken:

English, Polish

IKS AWF Warszawa [Warsaw, POL]

Tadeusz Nowicki [national], POL; Marek Gniewkowski, POL; Pawel Stroka, POL

Right (wysokieobcasy.pl, 23 Jan 2021)

2018 for Poland, World Cup in Warsaw, Poland (paralympic.org, 24 Jul 2021)

She took up able-bodied fencing in the third grade of primary school, and began wheelchair fencing in 2018. "Since I was a child I was very active. When I was in primary school my sports teacher Krzysztof Wator offered me fencing training." (paralympic.org.pl, 01 Jun 2021)

"After 12 years of able-bodied fencing I suffered an injury with which I struggled for more than a year. I had to retire, which was one of the most painful decisions in my life. But later I was invited to take up wheelchair fencing. In 2018 I got a message on Facebook. A friend I used to train with asked if she could give my number to her dad, who turned out to be Grzegorz Pluta, a wheelchair fencer who won gold at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London. He called and offered to train together. That was the first time I sat in a wheelchair. Out of stress, I tensed my whole body. My main thought was, 'Just don't get out of the chair when you attack'. I didn't, but surprisingly after training, my legs hurt the most." (paralympic.org.pl, 01 Jun 2021; wysokieobcasy.pl, 23 Jan 2021)

To win gold at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (paralympic.org, 24 Jul 2021)

She has one training session on days when she works as a flight coordinator, and three sessions on her days off from her job. (paralympic.org, 24 Jul 2021)

Winning silver in the A class sabre event at the 2019 World Championships in Cheongju, Republic of Korea. (paralympic.org.pl, 01 Jun 2021)

Her first coach Krzystof Wator. (paralympic.org.pl, 01 Jun 2021)

She listens to music before competing. (paralympic.org.pl, 01 Jan 2021)

Philosophy:

"Smile and jump!" (paralympic.org.pl, 01 Jun 2021)

In 2020 she received the Guttmann Award from the Polish Paralympic Committee as Para Athlete of the Year. (parasportowcy.pl, 02 Dec 2020)

General Interest

Classification
A (IWAS, 2021)

Impairment Details
She has permanent damage to her hip as the result of several falls in 2013 and was also born without her left hand. During an able-bodied fencing competition in January 2013, she slipped in two separate bouts, which injured her hip and tore two of her thigh muscles. Another fall after a rehabilitation session worsened the injury. She returned to competition at the March 2013 European Junior Championships in Budapest, Hungary, but sustained further muscle injuries having only completed around 40 days of rehabilitation. She later made the decision to retire from able-bodied fencing as a result of her injuries. (wysokieobcasy.pl, 23 Jan 2021; paralympic.org.pl, 01 Jun 2021)

General
OCCUPATION
In 2019 she began working as an operational flight coordinator for Polish Airlines. (LinkedIn profile, 01 Jan 2021)

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/kdrozdz2
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/drozdzkinga
https://instagram.com/drozdz.kingaa
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kinga-drózdz-1ab24a104

Legend

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

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