In her first competition of the season, on 1 May in Bojanowo, Dominika Kwaszcz qualified for the U18 European Championships, which will be held from 14 to 17 July 2016 in Tbilisi, Georgia.
The result of 6.17 is just 3 cm short of the qualifying standard for the IAAF U20 World Championships. What is more, it is currently the second-best result in the world in the cadet category. The result achieved in Bojanowo is also a new record for Lower Silesia and for MKS Bolesłavia Bolesławiec.
Dominika Kwaszcz is an athlete with Międzyszkolny Klub Sportowy Bolesłavia. She has trained in athletics for five years. Her main events are hurdles and jumps. Dominika is a student at ZSHiU in Bolesławiec.
At the Polish U18 Championships in August 2015, Dominika became Polish champion, winning the gold medal in the long jump with a result of 5.92 m. In 2016, she won the Polish indoor long-jump championship with a result of 5.80.
MKS Bolesłavia was also represented at the Bojanowo competition by Paweł Jóźwiak (a trainee of Ryszard Posacki, coached by Bartosz Gruman), who set a new club record of 6.97 in the long jump, and by Gracjan Kozak, who recorded 59.09 in the youth discus throw (coached by Markowski), also setting a new club record.
Justyna Serafińska-Gruman/ii