Renata Knapik-Miazga

Renata Knapik-Miazga (née Knapik; born 15 July 1988) is a Polish épée fencer. She participated in the 2020 and the 2024 Summer Olympics, winning the bronze medal in the épée team competition at the latter.^[1][2]

Renata Knapik-Miazga
Knapik-Miazga in 2015
Personal information
Born	(1988-07-15) 15 July 1988 (age 37) Tarnów, Poland
Nationality	Polish
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Country	Poland
Weapon	Épée
Hand	Left-handed
National coach	Bartłomiej Język
Club	AZS AWF Kraków
Head coach	Radosław Zawrotniak
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record Women's épée Representing  Poland Olympic Games 2024 Paris Team World Championships 2023 Milan Team 2017 Leipzig Team 2022 Cairo Team European Championships 2019 Düsseldorf Team 2018 Novi Sad Team 2013 Zagreb Individual 2016 Toruń Individual

Career

Knapik-Miazga took up fencing at a club in Kraków after playing with sticks as a child.^[3] When she was 14, she was forbidden by her doctors to continue fencing because of problems with her right hand. She switched her weapon hand and went on.^[3] She won both an individual and team bronze medal at the 2007 Junior European Championships, then a silver medal at the 2011 U23 European Championships.

In the senior category she climbed her first World Cup podium in 2010 with a third place in Florina. She was national champion of Poland in 2012 and 2013. At the 2013 European Championships in Zagreb she reached the quarter-finals by defeating Ukraine's Anfisa Pochkalova, then lost to Romania's Ana Maria Brânză and came away with a bronze medal.^[4]

Knapik-Miazga studies civil engineering from the Tadeusz Kościuszko University of Technology.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• List of Pennsylvania State University Olympians