Anna Kiełbasińska (; born 26 June 1990) is a retired Polish sprinter who competed first primarily in the 100 and 200 metres before moving up to 400 metres later in her career. She won the bronze medal in the 400 metres as well as silver medals in the 4 × 100 m and 4 × 400 m relays at the 2022 European Championships. Kiełbasińska earned bronze for the 400 m at the 2023 European Indoor Championships. She won several major medals as part of Polish 4 × 400 m relay teams and also individual medals at European Under-20 and U23 Championships.
Kiełbasińska represented Poland at the Summer Olympics in 2012, 2016 and 2020, and at the World Athletics Championships in 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2022. She won more than 10 individual Polish national titles.
Career Anna Kiełbasińska won the gold medal for the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2019 European Indoor Championships in Glasgow, alongside Iga Baumgart-Witan, Małgorzata Hołub-Kowalik, and Justyna Święty-Ersetic.
At 2019 World Athletics Championships held in Doha, she won the silver medal for the women's 4 × 400 m relay, running in the heats. The team consisted of Hołub-Kowalik, Patrycja Wyciszkiewicz, Święty-Ersetic, and Baumgart-Witan.
Just five months before the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021, she underwent surgery to fix a broken navicular bone in her ankle. The third-grade fracture was fixed with two screws. Despite this, at the Games she helped Poland to victory in the heats of the women's 4 × 400 m relay, earning the silver medal alongside Baumgart-Witan, Hołub-Kowalik, Święty-Ersetic, and Natalia Kaczmarek.
In February 2022, Kiełbasińska set a new Polish indoor record in the 400 metres in a time of 51.10 seconds at a meeting in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
She was based in Poland, but later in her career would often join Dutch athletes, under the guidance of coach Laurent Meuwly, on training camps about four times a year.
Kiełbasińska has alopecia areata, an auto-immune disease.Anna Kiełbasińska ma łysienie plackowate. Jastrzab Zdrowie (2 March 2016). Retrieved on 2016-07-30.
Statistics International competitions 2007European Junior ChampionshipsHengelo, Netherlands5th4 × 400 m relay3:39.262008World Junior ChampionshipsBydgoszcz, Poland7th200 m23.956th (h)4 × 100 m relay44.732009European Junior ChampionshipsNovi Sad, Serbia3rd200 m23.752nd4 × 100 m relay45.122011European U23 ChampionshipsOstrava, Czech Republic3rd100 m11.771st200 m23.237th4 × 100 m relay44.67World ChampionshipsDaegu, South Korea25th (h)200 m23.34 –4 × 100 m relayDNF2012Olympic GamesLondon, United Kingdom31st (h)200 m23.672014World Indoor ChampionshipsSopot, Poland17th (sf)60 m 7.312015World ChampionshipsBeijing, China21st (sf)200 m23.0711th (h)4 × 100 m relay43.20Military World GamesMungyeong, South Korea2nd200 m23.332016European ChampionshipsAmsterdam, Netherlands14th (sf)200 m23.367th4 × 100 m relay43.24Olympic GamesRio de Janeiro, Brazil25th (h)200 m22.9512th (h)4 × 100 m relay43.332017World ChampionshipsLondon, United Kingdom25th (h)200 m23.48DécaNationAngers, France2nd100 m11.462nd200 m23.682018World Indoor ChampionshipsBirmingham, United Kingdom15th (sf)60 m i7.23European ChampionshipsBerlin, Germany14th (sf)200 m23.296th4 × 100 m relay43.342019European Indoor ChampionshipsGlasgow, United Kingdom1st4 × 400 m relay i3:28.77World RelaysYokohama, Japan1st4 × 400 m relay3:27.49World ChampionshipsDoha, Qatar34th (h)400 m52.252nd4 × 400 m relay3:25.781Military World GamesWuhan, China3rd200 m23.331st4 × 400 m relay3:27.842021Olympic GamesTokyo, Japan2nd4 × 400 m relay3:23.1012022World ChampionshipsEugene, OR, United States8th400 m50.81European ChampionshipsMunich, Germany3rd400 m50.292nd4 × 100 m relay42.61 2nd4 × 400 m relay3:21.68 2023European Indoor ChampionshipsIstanbul, Turkey3rd400 m i51.25 SB3rd4 × 400 m relay i3:29.31 1Time from the heats; Kiełbasińska was replaced in the final.
Personal bests 60 metres indoor – 7.21 (Toruń 2021) 100 metres – 11.22 (-0.4 m/s) (Chorzów 2022) 200 metres – 22.76 (+1.9 m/s) (La Chaux-de-Fonds 2021) 200 metres indoor – 23.02 (Toruń 2023) 400 metres – 50.28 (Paris 2022) 400 metres indoor – 51.10 (Ostrava 2022)
National titles Polish Athletics Championships 100 metres: 2014 200 metres: 2015, 2016, 2017 4 × 100 m relay: 2016 4 × 400 m relay: 2013, 2014 Polish Indoor Athletics Championships 200 metres: 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 400 metres: 2009
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