Kamila Skolimowska
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| Women's athletics | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
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2000 Sydney | Hammer throw |
| European Championships | ||
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2002 Munich | Hammer throw |
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2006 Gothenburg | Hammer throw |
| European Cup Winter Throwing | ||
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2006 Tel Aviv | Hammer throw |
| Universiade | ||
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2005 Izmir | Hammer throw |
| European U23 Championships | ||
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2003 Bydgoszcz | Hammer throw |
| World Youth Championships | ||
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1999 Bydgoszcz | Hammer throw |
| European Junior Championships | ||
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1997 Ljubljana | Hammer throw |
Kamila Skolimowska (4 November 1982 – 18 February 2009) was a Polish hammer thrower. She is best known for her gold medal in the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics, which made her the youngest Olympic hammer champion, as well as for her two medals from the European Championships. Her personal best throw, and former Polish record, was 76.83 metres, achieved in May 2007 in Doha. She died on the 18 February 2009 in Vila Real de Santo António, Portugal at the Polish national team training camp.
She was born in Warsaw. Her father is super heavyweight weightlifter Robert Skolimowski who competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal at the 1986 World Weightlifting Championships. Skolimowska first made herself known at age fifteen, when she won the hammer throw event at the 1997 European Junior Championships; the first time hammer throw was staged at the European Junior Championships. She was actually fourteen years and 264 days at the time, and had become Polish national champion and record holder the year before. Her personal best in 1997 was 63.48 metres. She improved her personal best to 66.62 metres in 1999. She also finished seventh at the 1998 European Championships, won the 1999 World Youth Championships and finished twenty-first at the 1999 World Championships.
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