Alicja Konieczek
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Alicja Konieczek (born 2 November 1994) is a Polish Olympic runner specializing in the 3000 meters steeplechase.[3] In 2020 she joined On Athletics Club sponsored by Swiss company On. She won the gold medal at the 2019 Summer Universiade and the Super League European Team Championships in Chorzow. Tokyo 2020 was her first Olympics, where she ran the second fastest time of her career (9:31.79) and took 20th place. In 2019, she ran 9:44.96 at the IAAF World Championships in Qatar placing 28th.
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Nationality | Polish | ||||||||||||||
Born | (1994-11-02) 2 November 1994 (age 29) Zbąszyń, Poland | ||||||||||||||
Education | Western State Colorado University[1] | ||||||||||||||
Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Country | Poland | ||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | 3000 metres steeplechase | ||||||||||||||
University team | Western State Mountaineers | ||||||||||||||
Club | Oś AZS Poznań (Poland) [2]
(Albuquerque, New Mexico) | ||||||||||||||
Coached by | Ben Fletcher | ||||||||||||||
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Her younger sister Aneta graduated from University of Oregon in 2022.[4] She has multiply medals from the Polish Championships and a few Polish records in different age categories. Their older brother Dawid was also a runner that graduated from Western Colorado University in 2017 who has won several medals at the age National Championships and represented Poland internationally.[5]
In 2020, Alicja Konieczek served as a volunteer coach with the University of New Mexico cross country & track and field teams and now remotely coaches distance runners.
In January of 2022, Alicja left the prestigious training group, On Athletics Club, in Boulder, Colorado that is coached by Dathan Ritzenhein. She is based in Albuquerque, NM, where she is training for the 2024 Olympics.[6]