Maja Wloszczowska


Country
Birth date
Age
09/11/1983 - Warszawa (POL) 
29
Height
Weight
Gender
170 cm / 5'7" 
53 kg / 117 lbs 
F
Sport
WLOSZCZOWSKA Maja

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RankEventYearLocation
Olympic Games
2Cross-country2008Beijing, CHN
6Cross-country2004Athens, GRE
World Championships
1Cross-country2010Mont-Sainte-Anne, QC, CAN
2Cross-country2011Champery, SUI
2Cross-country2005Livigno, ITA
2Cross-country2004Les Gets, FRA
Cross-country2009Canberra, ACT, AUSDNS
European Championships
1Cross-country2009Zoetermeer, NED
2Cross-country2011Dohnany, SVK
2Cross-country2010Haifa, ISR
7Cross-country2012Moscow, RUS
World Cup
1Cross-country2012Pietermaritzburg, RSA
1Cross-country2010Val di Sole, ITA
1Cross-country2008Schladming, AUT
2Cross-country2011Val di Sole, ITA
3Cross-country2012Houffalize, BEL

Nickname

Bee. (NOC, 04 May 2004)

Hobbies

Extreme sports, listening to music, films and the internet. (NOC, 04 May 2004)

Education

Mathematics - Wroclaw University of Technology , Wroclaw, POL

Language(s) spoken

English

Club name

CCC Polkowice, Polkowice, POL

Coach

Marek Galinski (POL) (rockyroads.net, 09 Jun 2012)

Handedness

Right (NOC, 04 May 2004)

Debut

2000 for Poland, World Cup (Germany) (NOC, 04 May 2004)

Additional information

Start of sporting career
She began cycling in 1997 at the Sniezka club in Karpacz, Poland. (NOC, 04 May 2004)

Reason for taking up this sport
Her family first got her involved and she was encouraged by her school physical education teacher and the then Poland mountain bike champion Beata Salapa to take up the sport. (majawloszczowska.pl, 11 Feb 2008)

Hero
Poland's multiple world and Olympic Games champion race walker Robert Korzeniowski and champion ski jumper Adam Malysz. (lotto-pzu.pl, 21 Mar 2003; majawloszczowska.pl, 11 Feb 2008)

Awards
She was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polish Rebirth in 2010. (prezydent.pl, 05 Nov 2010)

She was awarded the Gold Cross of Merit in 2008. (isap.sejm.gov.pl, 08 Oct 2008)

General
OTHER ACTIVITIES
She founded a sportswear company called Quest with her mother Ewa. The two of them run the company and she tests and advertises the products in competition. (majawloszczowska.pl, 11 Feb 2008)

EARLY DAYS
Her mother Ewa used to take her and her brother on skiing and cycling trips on the weekends and once decided to enter them all into the family category of the Polish Amateur Championships. She won her race and the coach of the local cycling club asked her to train with the club the next day. (majawloszczowska.pl, 11 Feb 2008)

OWN RACE
Since 2009, she has lent her name to a cross country race in her home town of Jelenia Gora, called the Jelenia Gora Maja Wloszczowska Trophy MTB Race. (nbcolympics.com, 01 Feb 2012)

Previous Olympics

Beijing 2008, Athens 2004


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