Izabella Antonowicz-Szuszkiewicz (born March 16, 1942, in
Vilnius
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) is a Polish
sprint canoer
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who competed from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s. Competing in three
Summer Olympics
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, she earned her best finish of sixth in the
K-2 500 m event at
Munich
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in
1972
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.
Antonowicz's husband,
Władysław (1938–2007), also competed as a sprint canoer during the 1960s and 1970s.
References
Sports-reference.com profile
1942 births
Canoeists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic canoeists for Poland
Polish female canoeists
Sportspeople from Vilnius
20th-century Polish sportswomen
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