Adrianna Sułek-Schubert (pronounced: ; born 3 April 1999) is a Polish athlete competing in the combined events. She won the silver medal in the pentathlon at the 2022 World Indoor Championships. Sułek placed fourth in the heptathlon at the 2022 World Championships, and won the silver medal at the 2022 European Championships and 2023 European Indoor Championships. She is also a two-time Olympian and competed at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics.
Sułek was the heptathlon 2018 World Under-20 Championships bronze medallist and the 2021 European U23 champion. She is the Polish record holder for both the heptathlon and pentathlon, and has won seven individual national titles.
Early life and background Adrianna Sułek was brought up by her mother, a Polish philologist, in Ostromecko near Bydgoszcz. She started out playing volleyball and competed in 2014 as a middle attacker at Pałac Bydgoszcz club. After she had been given an ultimatum to play as a libero because of her height, she switched to track and field, competing for Zawisza Bydgoszcz and coached by Wiesław Czapiewski who died in 2019.
Sułek graduated from XI Sports High School in Bydgoszcz and, as of 2022, was a student of Journalism and Social Communication at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin.
Career 2016–2022 Sułek made her international debut in 2016, finishing 14th in the heptathlon at the European Under-18 Championships held in Tbilisi, Georgia.
After her bronze in the event at the 2018 World Under-20 Championships and European U23 gold in 2021, she had a breakthrough 2022 season. At the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade in March, the 22-year-old won the silver medal in the pentathlon, breaking Urszula Włodarczyk's 24-year-old Polish national record by 43 points with her score of 4851 points. In July, she placed fourth in the heptathlon at the World Championships held in Eugene, Oregon, totalling 6672 points and beating Małgorzata Nowak's Polish record dating back to 1985 by 56 pts. She wrapped up her long season the following month by taking silver at the Munich European Championships, where she lost injured (biceps femoris problems) only to two-time Olympic champion Nafissatou Thiam. Sułek set in this competition personal bests in three disciplines. She achieved altogether four heptathlons over 6400 points that year to secure her first overall World Combined Events Tour victory, becoming only the second Polish athlete after Włodarczyk in 1998 to do so.
2023–present In March 2023, Sułek broke for the first time the pentathlon 5000-point barrier to set her second Polish record that year in the event. She established personal bests in four events and scored 5014 pts at the European Indoor Championships held in Istanbul, Turkey, beating the world record set in 2012 in the same Ataköy Arena by Ukraine's Nataliya Dobrynska (5013 pts). Finishing first the 800 m run, the final of the five events in pentathlon, Sułek held the new world record for about six seconds only and had to settle for silver, however, as Thiam set even better mark of 5055 pts.
Personal life She is married to a former Polish hurdler, Kacper Schubert. In February 2024 she gave birth to their first child.
Achievements
International competitions 2016European U18 ChampionshipsTbilisi, Georgia14thHeptathlon5282 pts2017European U20 ChampionshipsGrosseto, Italy7thHeptathlon5784 pts2018World U20 ChampionshipsTampere, Finland3rdHeptathlon5939 pts2019European U23 ChampionshipsGävle, Sweden6thHeptathlon5954 pts2021European Indoor ChampionshipsToruń, Poland9thPentathlon4231 ptsEuropean U23 ChampionshipsTallinn, Estonia1stHeptathlon6305 ptsOlympic GamesTokyo, Japan16thHeptathlon6164 pts2022World Indoor ChampionshipsBelgrade, Serbia2ndPentathlon4851 pts World ChampionshipsEugene, OR, United States4thHeptathlon6672 pts NREuropean ChampionshipsMunich, Germany2ndHeptathlon6532 pts2023European Indoor ChampionshipsIstanbul, Turkey2ndPentathlon5014 pts NR2024Olympic GamesParis, France12thHeptathlon6226 pts2025World ChampionshipsTokyo, Japan15thHeptathlon6105 pts2026World Indoor ChampionshipsToruń, Poland4thPentathlon4638 ptsEuropean ChampionshipsBirmingham, United Kingdom7thHeptathlon6375 pts
Personal bests
+OutdoorEventPerformancePointsVenueDateNotes100 m hurdles13.08 s1112Warsaw, Poland18 June 2022High jump1.92 m1132Götzis, Austria28 May 2022Shot put14.44 m823Götzis, Austria27 May 2023200 metres23.77 s1003Eugene, OR, United States17 July 2022Long jump6.55 m1023Munich, Germany18 August 2022Javelin throw42.86 m722Munich, Germany18 August 2022800 metres2:07.181006Eugene, OR, United States18 July 2022Heptathlon6672 ptsPB total: 6821Eugene, OR, United States18 July 2022
+IndoorEventPerformancePointsVenueDateNotes60 m hurdles8.21 s1082Istanbul, Turkey3 March 2023High jump1.89 m1093Toruń, Poland5 March 2022Shot put14.89 m854Toruń, Poland22 March 2026Long jump6.62 m1046Istanbul, Turkey3 March 2023800 metres2:07.171006Istanbul, Turkey3 March 2023Pentathlon5014 ptsPB total: 5014Istanbul, Turkey3 March 2023, 2nd of all timePentathlon U204385 ptsToruń, Poland17 February 2018
Circuit wins and titles, National titles World Athletics Combined Events Tour Overall winner: 2022 2022: Wiesław Czapiewski Memorial Polish Athletics Championships Heptathlon: 2019, 2021, 2022 4 × 100 m relay: 2019 Polish Indoor Athletics Championships Pentathlon: 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023
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