Renata Knapik-Miazga ( Knapik; born 15 July 1988) is a Polish

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fencer. She participated in the

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and the

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, winning the bronze medal in the épée team competition at the latter.

Career

Knapik-Miazga took up fencing at a club in

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after playing with sticks as a child. When she was 14, she was forbidden by her doctors to continue fencing because of problems with her right hand. She switched her weapon hand and went on. She won both an individual and team bronze medal at the 2007 Junior European Championships, then a silver medal at the 2011 U23 European Championships. In the senior category she climbed her first

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podium in 2010 with a third place in Florina. She was national champion of Poland in 2012 and 2013. At the 2013 European Championships in Zagreb she reached the quarter-finals by defeating Ukraine's

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, then lost to Romania's

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and came away with a bronze medal. Knapik-Miazga studies civil engineering from the

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* * 1988 births Living people Sportspeople from Tarnów Polish female épée fencers Olympic fencers for Poland World Fencing Championships medalists Fencers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 2024 Summer Olympics European Games competitors for Poland Fencers at the 2023 European Games Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Poland Olympic medalists in fencing 21st-century Polish sportswomen Recipients of the Silver Cross of Merit (Poland) {{Poland-fencing-bio-stub

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