Renata Knapik-Miazga (born 15 July 1988) is a Polish épée fencer, bronze medallist at the 2013 European Fencing Championships.

Career

Knapik took up fencing at a club in Kraków after playing with sticks as a child. 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. 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.

Renata Knapik-Miazga

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.

Renata Knapik-Miazga

Knapik studies civil engineering from the Tadeusz Kościuszko University of Technology.

Renata Knapik-Miazga

References

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1988 births

Living people

Polish female épée fencers

Olympic fencers for Poland

Sportspeople from Tarnów

World Fencing Championships medalists

Fencers at the 2020 Summer Olympics

21st-century Polish women

21st-century Polish people

European Games competitors for Poland

Fencers at the 2023 European Games