(1994-11-02) 2 November 1994 (age 29) Zbąszyń, Poland
Education
Western State Colorado University[1]
Height
1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight
55 kg (121 lb)
Sport
Country
Poland
Sport
Athletics
Event
3000 metres steeplechase
University team
Western State Mountaineers
Club
Oś AZS Poznań (Poland) [2] (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Coached by
Ben Fletcher
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Poland
European Team Championships
2021 Chorzów
3000 m steeplechase
Alicja Konieczek (born 2 November 1994) is a Polish Olympic runner specializing in the 3000 meters steeplechase.[3] In 2020 she joined On Athletics Club sponsored by Swiss company On. She won the gold medal at the 2019 Summer Universiade and the Super League European Team Championships in Chorzow. Tokyo 2020 was her first Olympics, where she ran the second fastest time of her career (9:31.79) and took 20th place. In 2019, she ran 9:44.96 at the IAAF World Championships in Qatar placing 28th.
Her younger sister Aneta graduated from University of Oregon in 2022.[4] She has multiply medals from the Polish Championships and a few Polish records in different age categories. Their older brother Dawid was also a runner that graduated from Western Colorado University in 2017 who has won several medals at the age National Championships and represented Poland internationally.[5]
In 2020, Alicja Konieczek served as a volunteer coach with the University of New Mexico cross country & track and field teams and now remotely coaches distance runners.
In January of 2022, Alicja left the prestigious training group, On Athletics Club, in Boulder, Colorado that is coached by Dathan Ritzenhein. She is based in Albuquerque, NM, where she is training for the 2024 Olympics.[6]
^"College bio". Retrieved 27 September 2019.
^"PZLA profile". Retrieved 29 July 2019.
^Alicja Konieczek at World Athletics
^ANETA KONIECZEK University of Oregon Oregon Ducks track and field
^DAWID KONIECZEK CLASS Redshirt Senior HOMETOWN Zbaszyn, Poland HIGH SCHOOL ZSRit Powodowo Western Colorado Mountaineers
^122 - Alicja Konieczek; On Sponsored, Polish Olympian, Steeplechaser Running New Mexico Podcast
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Her sister AlicjaKonieczek took second place at the Polish Senior Championships and also achieved the Olympic standard time. Konieczek ran the Athletics...
because of various procedural errors by the Polish Swimming Federation. Alicja Tchórz, Bartosz Piszczorowicz, Aleksandra Polańska, Mateusz Chowaniec, Dominika...
65 2 Q 12.71 4 Did not advance AlicjaKonieczek 3000 metres steeplechase 9:23.45 PB 6 — Did not advance Aneta Konieczek 9:45.61 11 — Did not advance Katarzyna...
Linkiewicz 400 metres hurdles 55.97 20 Q 55.38 SB 14 Did not advance AlicjaKonieczek 3000 metres steeplechase 9:44.96 28 Did not advance Katarzyna Zdziebło...
Eilish Flanagan Adams State 22:12.4 Emily Roberts UMary 22:15.5 4 AlicjaKonieczek Western Colorado 22:30.4 5 Allie Ludge Grand Valley State 22:39.7 6...
15:40.41 Zofia Dudek 3 December 2022 Boston, United States 15:34.74 AlicjaKonieczek 2 December 2023 BU Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener Boston, United...