Aleksandra Uścińska

Aleksandra Uścińska
Personal information
Full name Aleksandra Uścińska
Nationality  Poland
Born (1984-12-02) 2 December 1984
Poznań, Poland
Height 1.66 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in)
Weight 57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
Sport Taekwondo
Event(s) 57 kg
Club KS Rapid Srem
Coached by Robert Sadurski

Aleksandra Uścińska (born December 2, 1984) is a Polish taekwondo practitioner, who competed in the women's featherweight category.[1] She picked up a total of thirteen medals in her taekwondo career, including a silver from the World Junior Championships in Killarney, Ireland, and represented her nation Poland at the 2004 Summer Olympics.[2] Uscinska also trained as a member of the taekwondo squad for Rapid Srem Sports Club (Polish: Klub Sportowy Rapid Srem) in her native Poznań, under head coach and master Robert Sadurski.[3]

Uscinska qualified as a lone taekwondo fighter for the Polish squad in the women's featherweight class (57 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by placing third and granting a berth from the European Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan.[2][4] Having a lack of international experience to the sport, Uscinska endured her first-round defeat 2–11 to Spain's Sonia Reyes. With her Spanish opponent narrowly losing the quarterfinals to South Korea's Jang Ji-won, Uscinska withered her hopes to compete for the Olympic bronze medal through the repechage.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Aleksandra Uścińska". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Uścińska jedzie na igrzyska!" [Uścińska goes to the Olympics!] (in Polish). Wirtualna Polska. 21 February 2004. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  3. ↑ "Jedynak na podium" [Youth occupies the podium] (in Polish). Gazeta Pomorska. 11 March 2004. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "Athens 2004: Taekwondo – Women's Entry List by NOC" (PDF). Athens 2004. LA84 Foundation. pp. 5–7. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
  5. ↑ "Taekwondo – Women's Featherweight (57kg/126lbs) Round of 16". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 12 August 2004. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
  6. ↑ Gutierréz, Juan (28 August 2004). "Sonia Reyes tampoco fue capaz de lograr el bronce" [Olympics; Sonia Reyes fails to achieve the bronze] (in Spanish). la Repubblica. Retrieved 11 January 2015.


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