# Anna Kiełbasińska

Anna Kiełbasińska (pronounced; born 26 June 1990) is a retired Polish sprinter who competed first primarily in the 100 and 200 metres before moving up to 400 metres later in her career. She won the bronze medal in the 400 metres as well as silver medals in the 4 x 100 m and 4 x 400 m relays at the 2022 European Championships. Kiełbasińska earned bronze for the 400 m at the 2023 European Indoor Championships. She won several major medals as part of Polish 4 x 400 m relay teams and also individual medals at European Under-20 and U23 Championships.
Kiełbasińska represented Poland at the Summer Olympics in 2012, 2016 and 2020, and at the World Athletics Championships in 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2022. She won more than 10 individual Polish national titles.

## Career

Anna Kiełbasińska won the gold medal for the women's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2019 European Indoor Championships in Glasgow, alongside Iga Baumgart-Witan, Małgorzata Hołub-Kowalik and Justyna Święty-Ersetic.
At 2019 World Athletics Championships held in Doha, she won the silver medal for the women's 4 x 400 m relay, running in the heats. The team consisted of Hołub-Kowalik, Patrycja Wyciszkiewicz, Święty-Ersetic and Baumgart-Witan.
Just five months before the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021, she underwent surgery to fix a broken navicular bone in her ankle. The third-grade fracture was fixed with two screws. Despite this, at the Games she helped Poland to victory in the heats of the women’s 4 x 400 m relay, earning the silver medal alongside Baumgart-Witan, Hołub-Kowalik, Święty-Ersetic and Natalia Kaczmarek.
In February 2022, Kiełbasińska set a new Polish indoor record in the 400 metres in a time of 51.10 seconds at a meeting in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
She was based in Poland, but later in her career would often join Dutch athletes, under the guidance of coach Laurent Meuwly, on training camps about four times a year.
Kiełbasińska suffers from alopecia areata, an auto-immune disease.

## Statistics
### International competitions

Representing  Poland :
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
| 2007 | European Junior Championships | Hengelo, Netherlands | 5th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:39.26 |
| 2008 | World Junior Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 7th | 200m | 23.95 |
| 2008 | World Junior Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 6th (h) | 4 × 100 m relay | 44.73 |
| 2009 | European Junior Championships | Novi Sad, Serbia | 3rd | 200 m | 23.75 |
| 2009 | European Junior Championships | Novi Sad, Serbia | 2nd | 4 × 100 m relay | 45.12 |
| 2011 | European U23 Championships | Ostrava, Czech Republic | 3rd | 100 m | 11.77 |
| 2011 | European U23 Championships | Ostrava, Czech Republic | 1st | 200 m | 23.23 |
| 2011 | European U23 Championships | Ostrava, Czech Republic | 7th | 4 × 100 m relay | 44.67 |
| 2011 | World Championships | Daegu, South Korea | 25th (h) | 200 m | 23.34 |
| 2011 | World Championships | Daegu, South Korea | – | 4 × 100 m relay | DNF |
| 2012 | Olympic Games | London, United Kingdom | 31st (h) | 200 m | 23.67 |
| 2014 | World Indoor Championships | Sopot, Poland | 17th (sf) | 60 m i | 7.31 |
| 2015 | World Championships | Beijing, China | 21st (sf) | 200 m | 23.07 |
| 2015 | World Championships | Beijing, China | 11th (h) | 4 × 100 m relay | 43.20 |
| 2015 | Military World Games | Mungyeong, South Korea | 2nd | 200 m | 23.33 |
| 2016 | European Championships | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 14th (sf) | 200 m | 23.36 |
| 2016 | European Championships | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 7th | 4 × 100 m relay | 43.24 |
| 2016 | Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 25th (h) | 200 m | 22.95 |
| 2016 | Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 12th (h) | 4 × 100 m relay | 43.33 |
| 2017 | World Championships | London, United Kingdom | 25th (h) | 200 m | 23.48 |
| 2017 | DécaNation | Angers, France | 2nd | 100 m | 11.46 |
| 2017 | DécaNation | Angers, France | 2nd | 200 m | 23.68 |
| 2018 | World Indoor Championships | Birmingham, United Kingdom | 15th (sf) | 60 m i | 7.23 |
| 2018 | European Championships | Berlin, Germany | 14th (sf) | 200 m | 23.29 |
| 2018 | European Championships | Berlin, Germany | 6th | 4 × 100 m relay | 43.34 |
| 2019 | European Indoor Championships | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 1st | 4 × 400 m relay i | 3:28.77 |
| 2019 | World Relays | Yokohama, Japan | 1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:27.49 |
| 2019 | World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 34th (h) | 400 m | 52.25 |
| 2019 | World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:25.78$^1$ |
| 2019 | Military World Games | Wuhan, China | 3rd | 200 m | 23.33 |
| 2019 | Military World Games | Wuhan, China | 1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:27.84 |
| 2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 2nd | 4 x 400 m relay | 3:23.10$^1$ |
| 2022 | World Championships | Eugene, OR, United States | 8th | 400 m | 50.81 |
| 2022 | European Championships | Munich, Germany | 3rd | 400 m | 50.29 |
| 2022 | European Championships | Munich, Germany | 2nd | 4 × 100 m relay | 42.61 NR |
| 2022 | European Championships | Munich, Germany | 2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:21.68 SB |
| 2023 | European Indoor Championships | Istanbul, Turkey | 3rd | 400 m i | 51.25 SB |
| 2023 | European Indoor Championships | Istanbul, Turkey | 3rd | 4 x 400 m relay i | 3:29.31 |
$^1$Time from the heats; Kiełbasińska was replaced in the final.

### Personal bests

   * 60 metres indoor – 7.21 (Toruń 2021)
* 100 metres – 11.22 (-0.4 m/s) (Chorzów 2022)
* 200 metres – 22.76 (+1.9 m/s) (La Chaux-de-Fonds 2021)
** 200 metres indoor – 23.02 (Toruń 2023)
* 400 metres – 50.28 (Paris 2022)
** 400 metres indoor – 51.10 (Ostrava 2022)

### National titles

* Polish Athletics Championships
** 100 metres: 2014
** 200 metres: 2015, 2016, 2017
** 4 x 100 m relay: 2016
** 4 x 400 m relay: 2013, 2014
* Polish Indoor Athletics Championships
** 200 metres: 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
** 400 metres: 2009