Adrianna Sułek

Adrianna Sułek (pronounced [adrˈjan.na ˈsu.wɛk]; born 3 April 1999[2]) is a Polish athlete competing in the combined events. She won the silver medal in the pentathlon at the 2022 World Indoor Championships. Sułek placed fourth in the heptathlon at the 2022 World Championships, and took silvers at the 2022 European Championships and 2023 European Indoor Championships.

Adrianna Sułek
Sułek at the 2023 European Indoor Championships in Istanbul
Personal information
Born (1999-04-03) 3 April 1999
Bydgoszcz, Poland
Height1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Sport
CountryPoland
SportAthletics
Event(s)Heptathlon, pentathlon
ClubBrda Bydgoszcz[1]
Coached byMarek Rzepka (2022–)
Marek Kubiszewski (2021)
Wiesław Czapiewski (–2019)
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Poland
World Indoor Championships
Silver medal – second place2022 BelgradePentathlon
European Championships
Silver medal – second place2022 MunichHeptathlon
European Indoor Championships
Silver medal – second place2023 IstanbulPentathlon
European U23 Championships
Gold medal – first place2021 TallinnHeptathlon
World U20 Championships
Bronze medal – third place2018 TampereHeptathlon

She was the heptathlon 2018 World Under-20 Championships bronze medallist, and 2021 European U23 champion. Sułek is the Polish record holder for both the heptathlon and pentathlon. She won seven individual national titles.

Early life and background

Adrianna Sułek was brought up by her mother, a Polish philologist, in Ostromecko near Bydgoszcz. She started out playing volleyball and competed in 2014 as a middle attacker at Pałac Bydgoszcz club.[3] After she had been given an ultimatum to play as a libero because of her height, she switched to track and field, competing for Zawisza Bydgoszcz and coached by Wiesław Czapiewski who died in 2019.[4][5]

Sułek graduated from XI Sports High School in Bydgoszcz and, as of 2022, was a student of Journalism and Social Communication at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin.[6][7]

Career

2016–2022

Sułek made her international debut in 2016, finishing 14th in the heptathlon at the European Under-18 Championships held in Tbilisi, Georgia.[2]

Sułek won the 800 m run, becoming the pentathlon world record holder for a short while at Istanbul 2023.

After her bronze in the event at the 2018 World Under-20 Championships and European U23 gold in 2021, she had a breakthrough 2022 season. At the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade in March, the 22-year-old won the silver medal in the pentathlon, breaking Urszula Włodarczyk's 24-year-old Polish national record by 43 points with her score of 4851 points.[8] In July, she placed fourth in the heptathlon at the World Championships held in Eugene, Oregon, totalling 6672 points and beating Małgorzata Nowak's Polish record dating back to 1985 by 56 pts.[9] She wrapped up her long season the following month by taking silver at the Munich European Championships, where she lost injured (biceps femoris problems) only to two-time Olympic champion Nafissatou Thiam. Sułek set in this competition personal bests in three disciplines.[10] She achieved altogether four heptathlons over 6400 points that year to secure her first overall World Combined Events Tour victory, becoming only the second Polish athlete after Włodarczyk in 1998 to do so.[11][12]

2023–present

In March 2023, Sułek broke for the first time the pentathlon 5000-point barrier to set her second Polish record that year in the event. She established personal bests in four events and scored 5014 pts at the European Indoor Championships held in Istanbul, Turkey, beating the world record set in 2012 in the same Ataköy Arena by Ukraine's Nataliya Dobrynska (5013 pts). Finishing first the 800 m run, the final of the five events in pentathlon, Sułek held the new world record for about six seconds only and had to settle for silver, however, as Thiam set even better mark of 5055 pts.[13][14]

Achievements
Adrianna Sułek (R) hurdles at the 2023 European Indoor Championships in Istanbul.

International competitions
Representing  Poland
YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventResult
2016 European U18 Championships Tbilisi, Georgia 14th Heptathlon 5282 pts
2017 European U20 Championships Grosseto, Italy 7th Heptathlon 5784 pts
2018 World U20 Championships Tampere, Finland 3rd Heptathlon 5939 pts
2019 European U23 Championships Gävle, Sweden 6th Heptathlon 5954 pts
2021 European Indoor Championships Toruń, Poland 9th Pentathlon 4231 pts
European U23 Championships Tallinn, Estonia 1st Heptathlon 6305 pts
Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 16th Heptathlon 6164 pts
2022 World Indoor Championships Belgrade, Serbia 2nd Pentathlon 4851 pts NR
World Championships Eugene, OR, United States 4th Heptathlon 6672 pts NR
European Championships Munich, Germany 2nd Heptathlon 6532 pts
2023 European Indoor Championships Istanbul, Turkey 2nd Pentathlon 5014 pts NR

Personal bests
Outdoor
Event Performance Points Venue Date Notes
100 m hurdles 13.08 s 1112 Warsaw, Poland 18 June 2022
High jump 1.92 m 1132 Götzis, Austria 28 May 2022
Shot put 14.44 m 823 Götzis, Austria 27 May 2023
200 metres 23.77 s 1003 Eugene, OR, United States 17 July 2022
Long jump 6.55 m 1023 Munich, Germany 18 August 2022
Javelin throw 42.86 m 722 Munich, Germany 18 August 2022
800 metres 2:07.18 1006 Eugene, OR, United States 18 July 2022
Heptathlon 6672 pts PB total: 6821 Eugene, OR, United States 18 July 2022 NR
Indoor
Event Performance Points Venue Date Notes
60 m hurdles 8.21 s 1082 Istanbul, Turkey 3 March 2023
High jump 1.89 m 1093 Toruń, Poland 5 March 2022
Shot put 13.89 m 787 Istanbul, Turkey 3 March 2023
Long jump 6.62 m 1046 Istanbul, Turkey 3 March 2023
800 metres 2:07.17 1006 Istanbul, Turkey 3 March 2023
Pentathlon 5014 pts PB total: 5014 Istanbul, Turkey 3 March 2023 NR, 2nd of all time
Pentathlon U20 4385 pts Toruń, Poland 17 February 2018 NU20R

Circuit wins and titles, National titles

References
  1. "Adrianna SUŁEK – PZLA Profile". Polish Athletics. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  2. "Adrianna SUŁEK – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  3. Fiałkowski, Szymon (27 July 2018). "Igrzyska olimpijskie są moim celem" (PDF). MetropoliaBydgoska.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 1 April 2022.
  4. Wypijewski, Krzysztof (18 March 2022). "Rodowita bydgoszczanka, Adrianna Sułek wicemistrzynią świata! Ewa Swoboda była czwarta". Express Bydgoski (in Polish). Retrieved 1 April 2022.
  5. Kowalczyk, Edyta; Radomski, Jakub (1 April 2022). "Polka nie zna ojca, ale kochała trenera. Nie zdążyli się pożegnać". Przegląd Sportowy (in Polish). Onet.pl. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
  6. "Adrianna Sułek". zs9.bydgoszcz.pl (in Polish). XI Liceum Ogólnokształcące. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
  7. "Wicemistrzyni świata – Adrianna Sułek na spotkaniu z Rektorem". Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (in Polish). 30 March 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
  8. Bonecki, Mateusz (2022-03-18). "Mamy pierwszy medal HMŚ. Adrianna Sułek z rekordem Polski!". TVP Sport (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2022-03-18. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
  9. Górecki, Mateusz (2022-07-19). "Kapitalny wynik Sułek. Poprawiła rekord Polski po... 37 latach!". TVP Sport (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-07-19.
  10. "Sułek wygrała z rywalkami i kontuzją! Mamy kolejny medal ME". TVP Sport (in Polish). 2022-08-18. Retrieved 2022-09-23.
  11. Petruczenko, Maciej (2022-09-20). "Adrianna Sułek z połową doli Nafissatou Thiam". Przegląd Sportowy at Onet.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  12. "Sulek and Victor confirmed winners of World Athletics Combined Events Tour". World Athletics. 2022-09-22. Retrieved 2022-09-23.
  13. Adams, Tim (3 March 2023). "Nafi Thiam sets world record in greatest ever pentathlon". AW. Retrieved 6 March 2023. Adrianna Sułek held the world pentathlon record for six seconds but Nafissatou Thiam now claims that coveted crown.
  14. Rowbottom, Mike (3 March 2023). "Greatest pentathlon ever! Thiam 5055 points and Sulek 5014 points in Istanbul". European Athletics. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
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