Sylwia Ejdys-Tomaszewska (born 15 July 1984 in

Bogatynia Bogatynia (; German: ''Reichenau in Sachsen'') is a town in Zgorzelec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. As of December 2021, the town has a population of 16,460. Geography The municipal area forms Poland's "Turoszów ...

) is a Polish

middle distance runner Middle-distance running events are track races longer than sprints, up to 3000 metres. The standard middle distances are the 800 metres, 1500 metres and mile run, although the 3000 metres may also be classified as a middle-distance event. The 1 ...

who specialises in the

1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athle ...

. She competed in the event at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Her personal best for the distance is 4:02.30 minutes. Ejdys had a share in the women's U23 team silver medal at the

2006 European Cross Country Championships The 13th European Cross Country Championships were held at San Giorgio su Legnano in Italy on 10 December 2006. Mo Farah took the title in the men's competition, while Tetyana Holovchenko won the women's race. Results Men individual 9.95 km ...

alongside Katarzyna Kowalska. She claimed her first major win over 1500 metres at the

2007 European Cup The 2007 European Cup was held in San Marino on June 12 to June 16. Kinheim Haarlem were the winners of the competition. Results Group A Group B Finals Semifinals: Kinheim Haarlem (Netherlands) defeated San Marino (Italy) 7–0 Huskies de Rou ...

. She was the bronze medallist at the 2007 World Student Games and became the 1500 m military champion at the

2007 Military World Games The 2007 Military World Games, officially the 4th CISM Military World Games were held at the twin-cities Hyderabad - Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India from 14–21 October 2007. Some parts of the games were also held in Mumbai. According to p ...

in October. She represented Poland at the

2008 Beijing Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Nati ...

, but did not make it past the first round of the 1500 m. She moved up to the

3000 metres The 3000 metres or 3000-metre run is a track running event, also commonly known as the "3K" or "3K run", where 7.5 laps are run around an outdoor 400 m track, or 15 laps around a 200 m indoor track. It is debated whether the 3000m shoul ...

for the

2009 European Team Championships The first European Athletics Team Championships took place on 20 and 21 June 2009. The track and field athletics tournament run by European Athletics was the successor of the old European Cup competition which was held annually until 2008. The Ch ...

and came runner-up to

Gulnara Samitova-Galkina Gulnara Iskanderovna Samitova-Galkina (russian: Гульнара Искандеровна Самитова-Галкина, tt-Cyrl, Гөлнара Искәндәр кызы Самитова-Галкина) (born 9 July 1978 in Naberezhnye Chelny, ...

. She reached the semi-finals of her speciality at the

2009 World Championships in Athletics The 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics () were held in Berlin, Germany from 15–23 August 2009. The majority of events took place in the Olympiastadion, while the marathon and racewalking events started and finished at the Brandenbur ...

. Ejdys narrowly missed a medal at the

2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships The 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics was held between 12 and 14 March at the Aspire Dome in Doha, Qatar. The championships was the first of six IAAF World Athletics Series events to take place in 2010. Bidding and organisation Th ...

, coming in fourth place behind defending champion

Gelete Burka Gelete Burka Bati (sometimes misspelled ''Burika'', Oromo: Galate Burqaa Baati, Amharic: ገለቴ ቡርቃ; born 23 January 1986) is an Ethiopian middle-distance and long-distance runner. She was born in Kofele in the Arsi Zone of the Orom ...

. She reached the 1500 m final at the

2010 European Athletics Championships The 2010 European Athletics Championships were the 20th edition of the European Athletics Championships, organised under the supervision of the European Athletic Association. They were held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona, C ...

but performed poorly and finished dead last. She improved her 3000 m personal best at the

BW-Bank Meeting Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe, formerly known as BW-Bank Meeting, is an annual indoor track and field competition which takes place in January or February in Karlsruhe, Germany. The meeting was first held at the Europahalle in 1985 and is currently a W ...

in February 2011, taking second place with a time of 8:43.22 minutes.Records tumble in Karlsruhe, Spiegelburg clears 4.76m
.

European Athletics The European Athletic Association (more commonly known as European Athletics) is the governing body for athletics in Europe. It is one of the six Area Associations of the world's athletics governing body World Athletics. European Athletics has 51 ...

(2011-02-14). Retrieved on 2011-02-14.

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* 1984 births Living people People from Bogatynia Polish female middle-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Poland Sportspeople from Lower Silesian Voivodeship Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Śląsk Wrocław athletes Universiade bronze medalists for Poland Medalists at the 2007 Summer Universiade 20th-century Polish women 21st-century Polish women {{Poland-athletics-bio-stub