Paulina Guba

Paulina Renata Guba (born 14 May 1991) is a Polish athlete specialising in the shot put.[4] She won the silver medal at the 2015 Summer Universiade. She also represented her country at the 2015 World Championships finishing eleventh. She has achieved title Woman Shot Put European Champion 2018 from Athletics Championships played in Berlin. She also won the gold medal at Seaman third class (OR-1, pl:Marynarz) at the World Military Competition 2019 in China, what has contributed that Poland took 5th place Nations of the World.

Paulina Guba
Guba in 2021
Personal information
Full namePaulina Renata Guba
Born (1991-05-14) 14 May 1991
Otwock, Poland[1]
EducationAWFiS Gdańsk[2]
Jędrzej Śniadecki Academy[3]
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight90 kg (198 lb)
Sport
SportTrack and field
Event(s)Shot put
ClubStart Otwock
Coached byEdmund Antczak
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Poland
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2018 BerlinShot put
Summer Universiade
Silver medal – second place2015 GwangjuShot put
Bronze medal – third place2017 TaipeiShot put
Military World Games
Gold medal – first place2019 WuhanShot put

Her personal bests in the event are 19.38 metres outdoors (Cetniewo 2018) and 18.77 metres indoors (Toruń 2018).

Competition record
YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing  Poland
2009 European Junior Championships Novi Sad, Serbia 4th Shot put 15.63 m
2010 World Junior Championships Moncton, Canada 5th Shot put 15.20 m
2011 European U23 Championships Ostrava, Czech Republic 4th Shot put 17.17 m
2012 World Indoor Championships Istanbul, Turkey 13th (q) Shot put 17.15 m
European Championships Helsinki, Finland 10th Shot put 17.09 m
2013 European U23 Championships Tampere, Finland 5th Shot put 16.57 m
2015 European Indoor Championships Prague, Czech Republic 5th Shot put 17.47 m
Universiade Gwangju, South Korea 2nd Shot put 17.94 m
World Championships Beijing, China 11th Shot put 17.52 m
2016 European Championships Amsterdam, Netherlands 11th Shot put 16.95 m
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 13th (q) Shot put 17.70 m
2017 European Indoor Championships Belgrade, Serbia 6th Shot put 18.00 m
World Championships London, United Kingdom 16th (q) Shot put 17.52 m
Universiade Taipei, Taiwan 3rd Shot put 17.76 m
2018 World Indoor Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom 5th Shot put 18.54 m
European Championships Berlin, Germany 1st Shot put 19.33 m
2019 World Championships Doha, Qatar 10th Shot put 18.02 m
Military World Games Wuhan, China 1st Shot put 18.22 m
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 27th (q) Shot put 16.98 m
2022 European Championships Munich, Germany 20th (q) Shot put 16.66 m

References
  1. Polish 2016 Olympic team at the Polish Olympic Committee website
  2. 2015 Universiade profile
  3. 2017 Universiade profile
  4. Paulina Guba at World Athletics
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