Anita Wlodarczyk Age, Wiki, Height, Husband, Net Worth

Anita Wlodarczyk was born on August 8, 1985, in Rawicz, Poland. She is a Polish athlete who has won three Olympic gold medals (2012, 2016, 2020), four world titles, and many world records (as of 2021) throughout the hammer throw (including the national and European champion).

Early Life of Anita Wlodarczyk

Anita was born in Rawicz on August 8, 1985. She used to ride a speed bike when she was younger, and in 1998 she won the European Junior team championship. Anita earned her first athletic victories while still in primary school when she won the Leszno Province title in the square. She began practicing at the Kadet Rawicz club in 2001, focusing on discus throw (she made her hammer throw debut in 2002), and she competed with AZS-AWF Poznan in 2005.

She is the Olympic champion in 2012 and 2016 and the very first woman to throw the hammer over 80 meters; she presently holds the women’s world record of 82.98 meters. She is regarded as the finest female hammer thrower in history. She is a three-time Olympic champion, four-time world champion, and numerous world, European, and national championship bearers in the hammer throw.

Family

Anita does not reveal much about her family members. Nothing is known about her father and Mother. Charles is her brother’s name.

Educational details

She holds a bachelor’s degree in physical education from the Academy of Physical Education. In Pozna, Eugeniusz Piasecki (Poland).

Injuries

• She had keyhole surgery on a knee issue in July 2019 and could not participate in the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Qatar. In early 2020, she returned to practice.
• She lost seven weeks of training in early 2014 after hurting her left knee at a training camp in the United States. (International Association of Athletics Federations, August 7, 2015).
• She returned to professional activity in June 2011 after a nine-month layoff due to injury.
• While enjoying her second-round throw at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Germany, she twisted her left ankle. She won the gold medal with the throw, but the injuries necessitated surgeries, and she lost two months of practice.

Career

Here are some glimpses of her career and personal life. Let’s check

Dreams

To win the gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo and the 2021 World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, USA.

Training

She said, “I perform technical training daily. I perform endurance and fitness training three times a week. My day off is once a week.”

Memorable Moments

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, she won gold there in the hammer throw.

Hero

Kamila Skolimowska, a Polish hammer thrower, and Irena Szewinska-Kirszenstein, a Polish sprinter.

Ritual

She competed using gloves that belonged to Kamila Skolimowska, a late Polish hammer thrower.

Other Sports include

She participated at the international scale in bike speedway as a teenager.

Plans of Retirement

She wants to win the hammer throw for the third time in a row in the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo and then retire just after rescheduling the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, United States of America. “It would be fantastic to end my career in Eugene with a gold medal.

I had planned to finish after Tokyo three years ago [2018]. After that, I had surgery [which forced her to withdraw from the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Qatar], so I anticipated I’d fight till 2021, maybe 2022. That’s the strategy I have in my brain, and we’ll see what happens.”

London Olympic 2012

She won a silver medal in hammer throw there at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, however after Tatyana Lysenko of a Russian Federation was rejected due to anti-doping violations, she was elevated to the gold medal rank in October 2019.

Tokyo Olympic 2020

In 2021, at Tokyo Olympic 2020 she archived her dream by finishing at no 1 in Women’s Hammer throw. She got Gold Medal for 3rd time in Olympics at Tokyo 2020, and that was her dream. She covered a distance of 78.48 meters. While Z.Wang from China got Silver (distance: 77.03m), and M.Kopron earned a Bronze medal (distance: 75.49), she is also from Poland.

Her most Notable Hammer-throwing Accomplishments:

• Gold Medalist at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin; 
• Bronze Medalist at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona;
• 2012 – Gold Medalist at the London Olympic Games;
• Gold medalist at the European Championships in Helsinki in 2012;
• Silver medalist in the World Championships in Moscow in 2013;
• Gold medalist in the European Championships in Zurich in 2014;
• Gold medalist in the World Championships in Beijing in 2015;
• Gold Medalist at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro
• Gold medalist at the European Championships in Amsterdam in 2016.
• Gold medalist at the World Championships in London in 2017.
• Gold medalist at the Tokyo Summer Olympic 2020 [2021].

Interesting Facts about Anita Wlodarczyk

• Anita Wlodarczyk made an appearance on the ESKA TV show Riding the Stars. Filip Rudanacja, the team’s captain, elicited specific details from the athlete, including the fact that despite having a ‘male’ career, she is empathetic. Anita, for example, Anita adores shoes! She further stated that perhaps the end of her profession might signal the beginning of the party! The Olympian admitted that one of the several things she remembered about college was a party. Because while others go out partying, she focuses on her studies and practice.
• Anita Wlodarczyk starred in the music video “110 percent” by Bilon I Szwed in 2016.
• She was awarded two high-ranking state decorations: the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 2009 and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 2016.
• She explored shot put, and discus before settling on hammer throw.
• Anita archived her dream by winning the gold medal at Tokyo Olympics 2020.