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GYMNASTS from Poland

The Most Famous

This page contains a list of the greatest Polish Gymnasts. The pantheon dataset contains 370 Gymnasts, 3 of which were born in Poland. This makes Poland the birth place of the 27th most number of Gymnasts behind Israel, and Australia.

Top 3

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Polish Gymnasts of all time. This list of famous Polish Gymnasts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Alfred Flatow (1869 - 1942)

With an HPI of 62.47, Alfred Flatow is the most famous Polish Gymnast.  His biography has been translated into 30 different languages on wikipedia.

Alfred Flatow (3 October 1869 – 28 December 1942) was a Jewish German gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was murdered in the Holocaust.

2. Helena Rakoczy (1921 - 2014)

With an HPI of 56.02, Helena Rakoczy is the 2nd most famous Polish Gymnast.  Her biography has been translated into 21 different languages.

Helena Rakocz

This specific topic has been covered numerous times before, but I wanted to do my own version of it specifically because there are numerous examples of mother/daughter gymnasts whose stories are not widely known. So rest assured that this isn’t going to be the same list you have seen many times before. I broke the following article up into two parts:

Part I: Covers the Elite/Olympic level examples.

Part II: Covers NCAA/Olympic examples, famous junior prospects, and miscellaneous cases.

So just how common is it for a mother and a daughter to both be an Olympic gymnast? There are only five occasions in women’s artistic gymnastics (WAG) of it happening. There are no instances in Olympic history where a mother and a daughter both have Olympic medals in WAG. But other family relationships such as mother/son, father/son, and father/daughter have bore greater amounts of success.

It was thanks to the OlyMadMen database and Bill Mallon that I was able to find information on some of the more obscure examples. I also included a few father/daughter examples in this series

Katarzyna Jurkowska-Kowalska

Polish artistic gymnast

For Polish long-distance runner, see Katarzyna Kowalska.

Katarzyna Jurkowska-Kowalska
Full nameKatarzyna Iwona Jurkowska-Kowalska
Born (1992-02-18) 18 February 1992 (age 32)
Kraków, Poland
ResidenceZabrze, Poland
Height5 ft 3 in (1.61 m)
DisciplineWomen's artistic gymnastics
Country represented Poland
Years on national team2007 - 2019
LevelSenior International Elite
ClubWisła Kraków
Head coach(es)Joanna-Uracz-Kocur, Przemysław Lis
Former coach(es)Beata Bodzoń, Valerij Kovalenko
Eponymous skillsFloor Exercise: split jump with 1/1 turn to ring
Balance Beam: double twisting Gainer dismount

Katarzyna Iwona Jurkowska-Kowalska (born 18 February 1992) is a Polish artistic gymnast and a two-time Polish all-around champion. She represented Poland at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Career

She represented Poland at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in 2007, 2009, 2010, 2014 and 201

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