Isabela Dylewska-Sviatovyak ( Polish Izabela Dylewska-Światowiak ; March 16, 1968 , Nowy Dwur Mazowiecki ) - Polish kayak-kayaker , played for the Polish team in the late 1980s - mid 1990s. Twice the bronze medalist of the Summer Olympic Games, the silver and bronze medalist of the World Championships, two-time European champion, winner of many regattas of national and international importance.
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| A country |  Poland |
| Specialization | kayak , 500 m |
| Date of Birth | March 16, 1968 (51 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki , Poland |
| Height | 169 cm |
| The weight | 66 kg |
Biography
Isabel Dylewskaya was born on March 16, 1968 in the city of Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki of the Masovian Voivodeship . She began to actively engage in kayaking in early childhood, trained at a local sports club and later at one of the canoe clubs in Poznan , trained under the guidance of coach Olgerd Svyatovyak, whom she later married.
The first serious success at the adult international level was in 1987, when she became a member of the Polish national team and visited the Universiade in Zagreb , where she brought gold and bronze medals won at half a kilometer distance among singles and fours, respectively. In the same season, she performed at the World Championships in German Duisburg, where she became a silver medalist in singles at a distance of 500 meters. Thanks to a series of successful performances, she was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul - in the standings of single kayaks she won a bronze medal, losing to Bulgarian Vana Gesheva and German Birgit Schmidt in the final.
In 1989, at the world championship in the Bulgarian Plovdiv, Dylevskaya won two silver medals, alone at half a kilometer and five kilometer distances. Being one of the leaders of the rowing team of Poland, she successfully qualified for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona - as a result, she repeated the success four years ago, received bronze in the single kayak program - in the decisive race at the finish she was beaten by the same Birgit Schmidt and Hungarian representative Rita Köban . Also paired with Elzhbeta Urbanchik participated in the program of double crews, but showed only the sixth result in the final.
At the 1995 World Championships in Duisburg, Dylewskaya added another silver medal to her track record - this time in doubles at five hundred meters. Later, she went to represent the country at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta , where, together with Elzhbeta, Urbanchik took seventh place in the final race of double crews.
After the three Olympics, Isabelle Dylewskaya for some time remained in the main part of the Polish national team and continued to take part in major international regattas. So, in 1997, she won twice at the European Championships in Plovdiv, and then won silver and bronze at the world championship in Canadian Dartmouth - in doubles at distances of 200 and 1000 meters respectively. Soon after the end of these competitions, she decided to end the career of a professional athlete, losing her place in the national team to young Polish rowers.
She has higher education, in 1994 she graduated from the University of Physical Culture in Poznan. Having completed her sports career, she tried her hand at politics: in the period 2002-2006 she was an adviser to the Regional Council of Greater Poland Voivodeship from the Union of Democratic Left Forces , and ran for parliament several times in the Sejm .
Links
- Dylewska-Svyatovyak Isabel (Polish) - biography on the website of the Polish Olympic Committee
- Isabel Dylevskaya - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Isabel Dylevskaya - medals at major international competitions
- Lists of kayaking and canoeing champions and prize winners (1936-2007 )