Barbara Sobotta-Janiszewska

Barbara Sobotta-Janiszewska (née Lerczak; December 4, 1936, in Poznań – November 20, 2000, in Kraków) was a Polish athlete who mainly competed in the women's sprint events during her career.

Barbara Sobotta-Janiszewska

Personal information
Birth name	Barbara Lerczak
Nationality	Polish
Born	(1936-12-06)6 December 1936 Poznań, Poland
Died	20 November 2000(2000-11-20) (aged 63) Kraków, Poland
Life partner	Jan Nowicki (1970–1974/1975)
Sport
Sport	Sprinting
Event(s)	100 metres 200 metres
College team	AZS Poznań
Club	AZS Poznań
Medal record Women's Athletics Representing  Poland Olympic Games 1960 Rome 4 × 100 m relay European Championships 1958 Stockholm 200 metres 1962 Belgrade 4 × 100 m relay 1958 Stockholm 4 × 100 m relay 1962 Belgrade 200 metres Universiade 1961 Sofia 200 m

In 1958 in Stockholm, she won the European Championships 200 metres race (as Maria Leontyavna Itkina won the bronze medal).^[1]

She competed for Poland at the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy where she won the bronze medal in the women's 4 × 100 metres with her teammates Teresa Wieczorek, Celina Jesionowska and Halina Richter.

Personal life

She was in informal relationship with Jan Nowicki, with whom she later had a son, Łukasz Nowicki, an actor and television presenter. After 4-5 years, Jan Nowicki broke up with Barbara for Irena Paszyn.^[2]

Additional images

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  Commemorative plaque outside Barbara Sobotta's family home at 41a Wierzbięcice Street in Poznań