Klaudia Siciarz (pronounced ; born 15 March 1998) is a retired Polish athlete who specialised in the sprint hurdles. In February 2017 she ran 8.00 seconds in the 60 metres hurdles which was the world U20 record until being broken by Tara Davis with 7.98 the following indoor season. In addition, she won a bronze medal in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2017 European U20 Championships and the silver at the 2019 European U23 Championships. She retired from athletics in April 2025 at the age of 27.
Her personal bests are 12.82 seconds in the 100 metres hurdles (+1.8 m/s, Gävle 2019) and 7.95 seconds in the 60 metres hurdles (Toruń 2019).
Early life and education Siciarz was born in Kraków, Poland. Alongside her athletic career, she studied sports at the University of Physical Education in Kraków (AWF Kraków).
Career
Domestic Accomplishments Through her career representing AZS-AWF Kraków, Siciarz established herself as one of Poland's top short hurdlers. At the 2017 Polish Indoor Championships in Toruń, she captured her first senior national title in the 60m hurdles where she set her (now old) World U20 Record of 8.00s. After 2017, two more national titles in the same discipline followed in 2019 (set personal best) and 2022. Outdoors, she won the senior Polish national title in the 100 metres hurdles in 2018 with a wind-assisted time of 12.74s and earned silver in 2023 behind Pia Skrzyszowska as well as in 2019, 2021 and 2022. Her personal bests of 7.95s (60m hurdles indoors) and 12.82s (100m hurdles outdoors) rank among the top ten fastest times in Polish athletics history in their respective disciplines.
International Accomplishments & Breakthroughs On the international stage, Siciarz made a major early breyakthrough on February 18, 2017, when she set a World U20 Indoor Record in the 60m with a time of 8.00s at the age of only 18. That summer, she secured bronze at the 2017 European U20 Championships in Grosseto. Her major international breakthrough cam during a dominant 2019 season. After reaching the semifinals at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, she starred at the 2019 European U23 Championships in Gävle, claiming silver in the 100m hurdles with a career-best time of 12.82s and adding a bronze in the relay. This momentum carried her througnh the pandemic-disrupted period into her senior Olympic debut at the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021. In Tokyo, she reached the semifinals of the 100m hurdles at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (finishing 17th overall with 12.84s). She went on to represent Poland at subsequent major championships, including the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, and the European Championships in Munich (2022) and Rome (2024).
International competitions Representing 2013European Youth Olympic FestivalUtrecht, Netherlands19th (h)100 m hurdles (76.2 cm)15.032015World Youth ChampionshipsCali, Colombia8th100 m hurdles (76.2 cm)13.752017European U20 ChampionshipsGrosseto, Italy3rd100 m hurdles13.332018European ChampionshipsBerlin, Germany16th (sf)100 m hurdles13.122019European Indoor ChampionshipsGlasgow, United Kingdom13th (sf)60 m hurdles8.14European U23 ChampionshipsGävle, Sweden2nd100 m hurdles12.823rd4 × 100 m relay44.082021Olympic GamesTokyo, Japan17th (sf)100 m hurdles12.842022World ChampionshipsEugene, United States31st (h)100 m hurdles13.27European ChampionshipsMunich, Germany10th (sf)100 m hurdles13.002023World ChampionshipsBudapest, Hungary38th (h)100 m hurdles13.252024European ChampionshipsRome, Italy12th (sf)100 m hurdles12.94
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