Great performance by Polish competitors in the Olympic qualifications in sport climbing against time. Aleksandra Mirosław broke the world record twice in the qualifications. Aleksandra Kałucka improved her personal record twice. The Polish women advanced to Wednesday’s finals.
Aleksandra Mirosław / PAP/Adam Warżawa /
In the quarterfinals, Mirosław will face the Spaniard Leslie Romero Perez, who had the slowest time in the qualifying round (7.26), while Kałucka will compete with the Chinese Yafei Zhou (6.55 in the qualifying round).
Mirosław performed brilliantly in the pre-qualifications, when she broke the world record from Rome in 2023 (6.24) twice – in the first Olympic race she had 6.21, and in the second an excellent time of 6.06.
The 22-year-old Kałucka also performed very well in the pre-qualifications, improving her personal best twice – first to 6.47 and then to 6.38.
In the actual qualifying round, Mirosław, as befits a leader, defeated (6.10) the weakest, 14th in the preliminaries, Aniya Holder from South Africa (9.36, won the African Olympic qualifications), and Kałucka, the 2022 World Cup leader, was better (6.65) than New Zealander Sarah Tetzlaff (8.41, previously won the Olympic qualifications from Oceania).
Mirosław was fourth in Tokyo, when medals were awarded in the combined event (i.e. bouldering, lead and timed combined). In Paris, she is the favorite to compete.
She qualified in September 2023 in Rome (she defeated Aleksandra Kałucka in the final), setting a world record, bettered twice in Paris.
The 22-year-old Kałucka secured her place at the Olympics in Budapest in June by winning the second qualifying competition, which allowed her to finish in the top five. She is the 2022 World Cup winner and currently ranks third in the IFSC rankings.
In the speed climbing event, 14 competitors will start, while in the bouldering and lead events, 20 competitors will start. However, each country can have two representatives in each event.
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