Zuzanna Jasińska from our Faculty won the 3rd edition of the plebiscite for the best athlete of the year at Wrocław University of Science and Technology. Her sport discipline is rowing. In 2022, she won, among others a gold medal in the Polish senior women's championships in the lightweight singles competition. Congratulations!

For the third time, our University's community chose the best athlete of the year. In this year's edition, there were ten competitors selected by the council of coaches from among the proposals previously submitted by the supervisors of individual sports sections at WUST. Students and employees of our University could vote for individual candidates for almost two weeks.

The final results were presented during the official gala organized on Friday in the Student Culture Zone. The plebiscite was won by the rower Zuzanna Jasińska, the second place went to Maria Fabijan, who practices cross-country running, and the third place – to the handball player Jakub Lisowski.

The team of the year 2022 became our football players, who last year won gold medals in the category of technical universities during the Polish Academic Championships held in Poznań. In the general classification, the team trained by Jerzy Śliwiński was seventh.

Previous winners of the plebiscite for the best athlete of the year at Wrocław University of Science and Technology include:
• 2018 – Joanna Pawlak (Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology) – equestrian sports.
• 2019 – Paulina Szumska (Faculty of Mathematics) – ju-jitsu.
• No plebiscite was held in 2020-2021.
• 2022 – Zuzanna Jasińska (Faculty of ICT).

Successful months

The year 2022 was very successful for Zuzanna Jasińska. First of all, our student, who represents the Pegaz Wrocław club, started in the lightweight singles category during the ENEA Polish Championships in Poznań in June and defended the gold medal won in 2021.

Her greatest success, however, was the start at the European Youth Rowing Championships held in September in Hazewinkel, Belgium. She competed in the lightweight double sculls competition with Jessica Sobocińska (Posnania Poznań) and together they won the gold medal.

Earlier, during the European Championships held in August in Munich, together with Katarzyna Wełna, they qualified for the final run in the lightweight doubles competition, to finally finish sixth [video].

In addition, during the World Cup competition in May in Belgrade, our student came third [video], also in tandem with Katarzyna Wełna.

The winner of our plebiscite comes from Wrocław and has been practicing rowing for over eight years. – I started in the first year of secondary school, when a friend took me to a rowing training. I liked it and started coming to further trainings – says our student.

Hard trainings gave results. I won a bronze medal already in 2021, at the Youth World Championships and a silver medal at the Youth European Championships.

Currently, Zuzanna Jasińska is training with the Polish national team in Portugal. There, she trains and fights to be in the national team for this year's world championships, which will be held in Belgrade in September. This competition will also be a qualification for next year's Olympic Games in Paris. – competing in the Olympics would be a dream come true for me, so I'm working very hard now to achieve that – she says.

At WUST, she is studying Technical Computer Science, which allows her to combine her interests related to computer science, mathematics and technology. – I still haven't decided what I will do when I finish studies, but I assume that it will be something related to IT systems in medicine – says the winner.

While Zuzanna Jasińska is now in Portugal, the award was received on her behalf by Dariusz Stefanowski, coach of the women's rowing section at the Physical Education and Sport Department, WUST.