Klaudia Kazimierska

Klaudia Kazimierska
Personal information
NationalityPoland
Born (2001-09-03) 3 September 2001
Włocławek, Poland
Sport
SportAthletics
Event
Middle distance running
College teamOregon Ducks
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
  • 800 m: 2:00.23 (Los Angeles, 2024)
  • 1500 m: 3:55.59 (Chorzow, 2026) NR
    Mile: 4:17.90 (Eugene, 2026) NR
    Indoor
    800 m: 2:03.46 (Fayetteville, 2024)
    1500 m: 4:01.78 (Boston, 2026) NR
    Mile: 4:30.65 (Boston, 2024)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Poland
European Championships
Silver medal – second place2026 Birmingham1500 m

Klaudia Kazimierska (born 3 September 2001) is a Polish track and field athlete who competes as a middle-distance runner. The national record holder over 1500 metres, she won the silver medal in the 1500 m at the 2026 European Athletics Championships, also setting new polish national records in the mile run and the 1500 metres indoors that year.[1][2]

Early life

Kazimierska is from Włocławek, Poland.[3][4] She began to compete collegiately for the Oregon Ducks in the United States, from 2022.[5][6]

Career

In 2017, Kazimerska won the silver medal in the 1500 metres at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Győr, Hungary, with a time of 4:23.17.[7] The following year, she was a bronze medalist at the 2018 European Athletics U18 Championships in the 1500 metres, held at the same venue in Hungary, running a time of 4:22.90.[8]

In June 2024, she placed third overall at the 2024 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon, running a time of 4:08.22 to finish behind winner Maia Ramsden and second place runner Kimberley May.[9] Later that month, she won the Polish Athletics Championships 1500 metres national title with a time of 4:10.29 in Bydgoszcz.[10] She qualified for the 1500 metres race at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, in August 2024, with a best time in 2024 of 4:01.89. She finished in tenth place overall in the final, with a new personal best time of 4:00.12.[11][12]

In October 2024, Kazimierska signed an NIL deal with Nike alongside fellow Oregon teammates Matti Erickson and Maddy Elmore.[13]

She missed the 2025 indoor season with a hip injury, but returned to action in April 2025 at the Oregon Team Invitational held at Hayward Field, winning both the 800 metres and 1500 metres races at the meet.[14] She qualified for the final of the 1500 metres at the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon in June 2025.[15] She competed for Poland in the 1500 metres at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships First Division in Madrid on 29 June 2025.[16] In September 2025, she was a finalist over 1500 metres at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, placing seventh in a personal best time of 3:57.95.[17][18]

On 24 January 2026, Kazimierska ran a Polish short track record of 4:01.78 at the Indoor Grand Prix, in Boston.[19]

On 1 February 2026, Kazimierska finished third in the Wanamaker Mile at the 2026 Millrose Games in New York, with her time of 4:21.36 setting a national record for Poland.[20] She placed sixth in the final of the 1500 m at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Toruń, Poland.[21] On 4 July, she ran a new Polish national record of 4:17.90 in the mile run at the 2026 Prefontaine Classic.[22] On 16 August, she won the silver medal behind Georgia Hunter Bell in the 1500 metres at the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham.[23] On 23 August, she ran 3:55.59, setting a new national record, in the 1500 metres in the Diamond League at the 2026 Kamila Skolimowska Memorial in Silesia, Poland.[24]

References

  1. ↑ "Klaudia KAZIMIERSKA". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  2. ↑ "Klaudia KAZIMIERSKA - Statystyki PZLA - DOMTEL-SPORT". statystyka.pzla.pl. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  3. ↑ "Klaudia Kazimierska - Track and Field". University of Oregon Athletics. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  4. ↑ Oleradzki, Grzegorz (15 March 2017). "Klaudia Kazimierska mistrzynią Polski" [Klaudia Kazimierska is the Polish champion]. Gazeta Pomorska (in Polish).
  5. ↑ "Klaudia Kazimierska pobiegnie dla żółto-zielonych" [Klaudia Kazimierska will run for the yellow-green team]. Bieganie.pl (in Polish). 29 April 2022.
  6. ↑ "I still don't get what I did! Klaudia Kazimierska on training, the Olympics, the USA and her life season". bieganie.pl (in Polish). 20 January 2025. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
  7. ↑ "EYOF w Győr: srebro Kazimierskiej na 1500 m". www.pzla.pl. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  8. ↑ "European U18 Championships". World Athletics. 5 July 2018. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
  9. ↑ "Women 1500m Results - NCAA D1 Outdoor Track and Field Championships 2024". Watch Athletics. 8 June 2024. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
  10. ↑ "Polish Championships". World Athletics. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
  11. ↑ LetsRun.com (21 June 2024). "2024 Bydgoszcz World Athletics Gold Track and Field Results - 6th Irena Szewińska Memorial Results". LetsRun.com. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  12. ↑ "KAZIMIERSKA Klaudia". Paris 2024 Olympics. Archived from the original on 30 July 2024.
  13. ↑ "Parker Wolfe, Klaudia Kazimierska Headline Nine New Nike NIL Signings". CitiusMag. 29 October 2024. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
  14. ↑ "Olympian Klaudia Kazimierska surprises herself with two wins at Hayward Field". Register Guard. 20 April 2025. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
  15. ↑ "NCAA Women's DI Track and Field Championships 2025 Results & Scores". Flotrack. 12 June 2025. Retrieved 13 June 2025.
  16. ↑ Broadbent, Chris (29 June 2025). "Guillemot and Nadar take 1500m victories for France and Portugal". European Athletics. Retrieved 30 June 2025.
  17. ↑ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 18 September 2025. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
  18. ↑ "Lekkoatletyka. Znamy skład reprezentacji Polski na MŚ w Tokio". Sport.tvp.pl. 29 August 2025. Retrieved 30 August 2025.
  19. ↑ "Hoey breaks world 800m short track record with 1:42.50 in Boston". World Athletics. 24 January 2026. Retrieved 25 January 2026.
  20. ↑ "Cam Myers Makes History as Youngest Wanamaker Mile Champion at Millrose Games". www.watchathletics.com. Retrieved 1 February 2026.
  21. ↑ "World Athletics Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 22 March 2026. Retrieved 25 March 2026.
  22. ↑ Johnson, Robert; Gault, Jonathan (4 July 2026). "Fireworks at Pre: Hiltz Stuns Kipyegon, High Schooler Taylor Rips 19.75 on the 4th of July". Lets Run. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
  23. ↑ Ingle, Sean (16 August 2026). "Britain's Georgia Hunter Bell surges to emphatic 1500m European gold". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  24. ↑ "Alekna throws Diamond League record, Dos Santos and Jefferson-Wooden win key clashes in Silesia". World Athletics. 23 August 2026. Retrieved 26 August 2026.
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