Otylia Jedrzejczak, Swimmer, Biography

Otylia Jedrzejczak, Swimmer, Biography,

Polish Swimmer

Born December 13, 1983, Ruda Slaska, Silesian Voivodship, Republic of Poland

Height: 6 foot 1 and a half, 187 cm

Weight 161 pounds

Otylia Jedrzejczak is a Polish swimmer. She is the current world & Olympic champion in the 200 metre butterfly. She took part in the 2000 & 2004 Summer Olympics, & twice broke the world record in the women's 200m butterfly.

She started swimming at the age of six as a measure to correct a slight curvature of the spine. At first she hated the sport. Her attitude towards it changed after she had won her first prize in a competition in Germany at the age of eight. Jedrzejczak took up swimming seriously in high school. Led by coach Maria Jakóbik, she won her first titles in the Junior European Championships in 1999. Medals in the Senior European Championships in 1999 & 2000 opened the way to her first Olympic appearance.

Currently, the Six foot blonde, Jedrzejczak is a student at the Academy of Physical Education in Warsaw (Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego w Warszawie). Her coach is Pawel Slominski. She stands 187 cm (6 ft 1½ in) tall & wears a size 43 (EU)/11 (US) shoe.

On 1 October 2005 she was injured in a car accident, which killed her 19-year-old brother, Szymon. She was driving, attempting to pass several long-haul trucks at high speed & crashed into a tree.

On 25 March 2006 she came back to competitive swimming, winning 200 m butterfly at an international meet featuring Poland, Ukraine & the Czech Republic. She won in a time of 2:15.73 s, some 10 seconds slower than her own world record.

Achievements
In 1999 she won the 100 m & 200 m butterfly titles during the Junior European Championships in Moscow & a bronze medal in the 200 m butterfly event in the Senior European Championships in Istanbul.
In 2000 she won gold in the 200 m butterfly & silver in the 100 m butterfly in the European Championships in Helsinki.
In the 2000 Summer Olympics she placed 5th in the 200 m butterfly.
In 2001 she placed second in the 100 m butterfly event in the World Championships in Fukuoka.
On 4 August 2002 she established a new world record in the 200 m butterfly with a time of 2:05.78 during the European Championships in Berlin. Except the 200m title, she won a silver medal in the 100 m butterfly event.
During the 2003 World Championships in Barcelona she placed first in the 200 m butterfly & second in the 100 m butterfly.
In the 2004 European Championships in Madrid she defended her 200 m butterfly title & placed third in the 100 m butterfly event.
During the 2004 Summer Olympics she won three medals: silver in the 400 m freestyle & 100 m butterfly, & gold in the 200 m butterfly. This equals her in the number of medals earned during single Olympic games with the legendary Polish athlete Irena Szewinska.
After winning bronze in the 100 m butterfly during the 2005 World Championships in Montreal, Jedrzejczak managed to defend her title in the 200 m butterfly event on 29 July 2005. In the final she improved her own world record with a time of 2:05.61 to beat Australian Jessicah Schipper by only 0.04 s. After the race it was disputed that Jedrzejczak touched the finishing wall with only one hand (with video replays confirming this), which according to International Swimming Federation rules would be grounds for an automatic disqualification. But since this was not noticed by the judges & no complaints were filed within 30 minutes of the race, her result has been approved.
In the summer of 2005 she won three gold medals at the Summer Universiade in Izmir.
In the 2006 European Championships in Budapest she again defended her 200 m butterfly title & won 200 m freestyle. With her teammates, she took the silver medal in 4 x 200 m freestyle relay.

Olympic Games gold medal auction
Jedrzejczak owes her Olympic gold medal success to a brilliant finish in the last quarter of the 200 metre distance, which allowed her to overtake Australian Petria Thomas, who led the race for over 150 metres.

After the race Jedrzejczak revealed, that during the pre-olympic trials in Athens in June she had declared that if she won a gold medal in the Olympics, she would auction it off & hand the proceeds to a charity helping children suffering from leukemia.

The results of the internet auction were announced on the 19 December 2004 with Victoria Cymes, a Polish food company, turning out to be the highest bidder with 257,550 zlotys (about 82,437 USD). The money was handed over to the Oncology & Haematology Clinic of Wroclaw's Children's Hospital.

World championship results
2001 World Aquatics Championships: silver medal in the 100 m butterfly
2003 World Aquatics Championships: silver medal in the 100 m butterfly
2003 World Aquatics Championships: gold medal in the 200 m butterfly
2005 World Aquatics Championships: bronze medal in the 100 m butterfly
2005 World Aquatics Championships: gold medal in the 200 m butterfly

Latest 10 world records in the 200 metre butterfly
2:09.87 Tracey Caulkins (USA) 26.8.1978 in Berlin
2:09.77 Mary T. Meagher (USA) 7.7.1979 in San Juan
2:08.41 Mary T. Meagher (USA) 16.8.1979 in Fort Lauderdale
2:07.01 Mary T. Meagher (USA) 16.8.1979 in Fort Lauderdale
2:06.37 Mary T. Meagher (USA) 30.7.1980 in Irvine
2:05.96 Mary T. Meagher (USA) 13.8.1981 in Brown Deer
2:05.81 Susie O'Neill (AUS) 17.5.2000 in Sydney
2:05.78 Otylia Jedrzejczak (POL) 4.8.2002 in Berlin
2:05.61 Otylia Jedrzejczak (POL) 28.7.2005 in Montréal
2.05.40 Jessicah Schipper (AUS) 17.8.2006 in Victoria

This site was written in July 2007

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