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Adrianna Sułek-Schubert

Sułek at the 2023 European Indoor Championships in Istanbul
Personal information
Born	(1999-04-03) 3 April 1999 (age 25) Bydgoszcz, Poland
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Sport
Country	Poland
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Heptathlon, pentathlon
Club	Brda Bydgoszcz
Coached by	Marek Rzepka (2022–) Marek Kubiszewski (2021) Wiesław Czapiewski (–2019)
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	Heptathlon: 6672 NR (Eugene 2022) Indoors Pentathlon: 5014 NR (Istanbul 2023)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Poland World Indoor Championships 2022 Belgrade Pentathlon European Championships 2022 Munich Heptathlon European Indoor Championships 2023 Istanbul Pentathlon European U23 Championships 2021 Tallinn Heptathlon World U20 Championships 2018 Tampere Heptathlon

Adrianna Sułek-Schubert (pronounced: ; born 3 April 1999) is a Polish athlete competing in the combined events. She won the silver medal in the pentathlon at the 2022 World Indoor Championships. Sułek placed fourth in the heptathlon at the 2022 World Championships, and took silvers at the 2022 European Championships and 2023 European Indoor Championships.

She was the heptathlon 2018 World Under-20 Championships bronze medallist, and 2021 European U23 champion. Sułek is the Polish record holder for both the heptathlon and pentathlon. She won seven individual national titles.

Early life and background

Adrianna Sułek was brought up by her mother, a Polish philologist, in Ostromecko near Bydgoszcz. She started out playing volleyball and competed in 2014 as a middle attacker at Pałac Bydgoszcz club. After she had been given an ultimatum to play as a libero because of her height, she switched to track and field, competing for Zawisza Bydgoszcz and coached by Wiesław Czapiewski who died in 2019.

Sułek graduated from XI Sports High School in Bydgoszcz and, as of 2022, was a student of Journalism and Social Communication at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin.

Career

2016–2022

Sułek made her international debut in 2016, finishing 14th in the heptathlon at the European Under-18 Championships held in Tbilisi, Georgia.

After her bronze in the event at the 2018 World Under-20 Championships and European U23 gold in 2021, she had a breakthrough 2022 season. At the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade in March, the 22-year-old won the silver medal in the pentathlon, breaking Urszula Włodarczyk's 24-year-old Polish national record by 43 points with her score of 4851 points. In July, she placed fourth in the heptathlon at the World Championships held in Eugene, Oregon, totalling 6672 points and beating Małgorzata Nowak's Polish record dating back to 1985 by 56 pts. She wrapped up her long season the following month by taking silver at the Munich European Championships, where she lost injured (biceps femoris problems) only to two-time Olympic champion Nafissatou Thiam. Sułek set in this competition personal bests in three disciplines. She achieved altogether four heptathlons over 6400 points that year to secure her first overall World Combined Events Tour victory, becoming only the second Polish athlete after Włodarczyk in 1998 to do so.

2023–present

In March 2023, Sułek broke for the first time the pentathlon 5000-point barrier to set her second Polish record that year in the event. She established personal bests in four events and scored 5014 pts at the European Indoor Championships held in Istanbul, Turkey, beating the world record set in 2012 in the same Ataköy Arena by Ukraine's Nataliya Dobrynska (5013 pts). Finishing first the 800 m run, the final of the five events in pentathlon, Sułek held the new world record for about six seconds only and had to settle for silver, however, as Thiam set even better mark of 5055 pts.

Personal life

She is married to a former Polish hurdler, Kacper Schubert. In February 2024 she gave birth to their first child.

Achievements

International competitions

Representing  Poland

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Result
2016	European U18 Championships	Tbilisi, Georgia	14th	Heptathlon	5282 pts
2017	European U20 Championships	Grosseto, Italy	7th	Heptathlon	5784 pts
2018	World U20 Championships	Tampere, Finland	3rd	Heptathlon	5939 pts
2019	European U23 Championships	Gävle, Sweden	6th	Heptathlon	5954 pts
2021	European Indoor Championships	Toruń, Poland	9th	Pentathlon	4231 pts
	European U23 Championships	Tallinn, Estonia	1st	Heptathlon	6305 pts
	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	16th	Heptathlon	6164 pts
2022	World Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	2nd	Pentathlon	4851 pts NR
	World Championships	Eugene, OR, United States	4th	Heptathlon	6672 pts NR
	European Championships	Munich, Germany	2nd	Heptathlon	6532 pts
2023	European Indoor Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	2nd	Pentathlon	5014 pts NR
2024	Olympic Games	Paris, France	12th	Heptathlon	6226 pts

Personal bests

Circuit wins and titles, National titles

• World Athletics Combined Events Tour Overall winner: 2022
  • 2022: Wiesław Czapiewski Memorial
• Polish Athletics Championships
  • Heptathlon: 2019, 2021, 2022
  • 4 × 100 m relay: 2019
• Polish Indoor Athletics Championships
  • Pentathlon: 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023

References

1. "Adrianna SUŁEK – PZLA Profile". Polish Athletics. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
2. ^ "Adrianna SUŁEK – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
3. Fiałkowski, Szymon (27 July 2018). "Igrzyska olimpijskie są moim celem" (PDF). MetropoliaBydgoska.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 1 April 2022.
4. Wypijewski, Krzysztof (18 March 2022). "Rodowita bydgoszczanka, Adrianna Sułek wicemistrzynią świata! Ewa Swoboda była czwarta". Express Bydgoski (in Polish). Retrieved 1 April 2022.
5. Kowalczyk, Edyta; Radomski, Jakub (1 April 2022). "Polka nie zna ojca, ale kochała trenera. Nie zdążyli się pożegnać". Przegląd Sportowy (in Polish). Onet.pl. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
6. "Adrianna Sułek". zs9.bydgoszcz.pl (in Polish). XI Liceum Ogólnokształcące. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
7. "Wicemistrzyni świata – Adrianna Sułek na spotkaniu z Rektorem". Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (in Polish). 30 March 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
8. Bonecki, Mateusz (2022-03-18). "Mamy pierwszy medal HMŚ. Adrianna Sułek z rekordem Polski!". TVP Sport (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2022-03-18. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
9. Górecki, Mateusz (2022-07-19). "Kapitalny wynik Sułek. Poprawiła rekord Polski po... 37 latach!". TVP Sport (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-07-19.
10. "Sułek wygrała z rywalkami i kontuzją! Mamy kolejny medal ME". TVP Sport (in Polish). 2022-08-18. Retrieved 2022-09-23.
11. Petruczenko, Maciej (2022-09-20). "Adrianna Sułek z połową doli Nafissatou Thiam". Przegląd Sportowy at Onet.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-09-20.
12. "Sulek and Victor confirmed winners of World Athletics Combined Events Tour". World Athletics. 2022-09-22. Retrieved 2022-09-23.
13. Adams, Tim (3 March 2023). "Nafi Thiam sets world record in greatest ever pentathlon". AW. Retrieved 6 March 2023. Adrianna Sułek held the world pentathlon record for six seconds but Nafissatou Thiam now claims that coveted crown.
14. Rowbottom, Mike (3 March 2023). "Greatest pentathlon ever! Thiam 5055 points and Sulek 5014 points in Istanbul". European Athletics. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
15. "Adrianna Sułek wyszła za mąż. Lekkoatletka niedługo powita na świecie swoje pierwsze dziecko [zdjęcia]". pomorska.pl (in Polish). 10 August 2023. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
16. "Radosna nowina! Adrianna Sułek urodziła dziecko!". www.polsatsport.pl (in Polish). 8 February 2024. Retrieved 6 March 2024.

External links

• Adrianna Sułek at World Athletics
• Adrianna Sułek at the Polish Athletic Association (in Polish)
• Adrianna Sułek at Olympedia

• 1999 births
• Living people
• Polish heptathletes
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
• Olympic athletes for Poland
• World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists
• 21st-century Polish sportswomen
• European Athletics Championships medalists
• Athletes from Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics