Anna Matuszewicz

Anna Matuszewicz
Personal information
NationalityPolish
Born (2003-04-05) 5 April 2003 (age 22)
Sport
SportAthletics
Event
Long jump
Achievements and titles
Personal bestLong jump: 6.77 m (2026)

Anna Matuszewicz (born 5 April 2003) is a Polish long jumper. She is a multiple-time national indoor champion, and in 2026 became the Polish indoor national record holder.[1]

Early life

Matuszewicz took part in many sports when she was growing up, including horse riding, fencing and volleyball, but focused on athletics.[2]

Career

She is a member of MKL Toruń.[3] She set a personal best of 5.91 metres indoors in February 2020. In 2021, she improved it indoors to 6.33 to secure the Polish U20 Indoor Championship.[4] She jumped 6.49 metres as an eighteen year-old in Lublin in July 2021. It was the best result for a Polish junior in 57 years since Irena Szewińska.[5]

The following year, she won the long jump title at the Polish Indoor Athletics Championships for the first time, at the age of 19 years-old.[6] She finished fifth at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia with a jump of 6.31 metres.[7]

She won the long jump title at the Polish Indoor Athletics Championships in 2024.[8] She retained her title in 2025 with a new personal best of 6.71 metres to move to eighth on the Polish all-time list.[9][10] She competed at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn.[11] She was selected for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025.[12] In September 2025, she competed at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan.[13][14]

Competing at the Gorzow Jump Festival, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver meeting, on 31 January 2026, she won the long jump with an outright lifetime best of 6.77m breaking the Polish national indoor long jump record of 6.74m, set by Anna Wlodarczyk in 1980.[15]

References

  1. ^ "Anna Matuszewicz". World Athletics. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  2. ^ Kołodziejski, Filip (23 April 2023). "Lekkoatletyka. Anna Matuszewicz: chciałabym medal igrzysk. Najlepiej złoty!". TVPSPORT.PL. Retrieved 20 March 2025.
  3. ^ "Anna Matuszewicz piątą juniorką na świecie w skoku w dal". Radiopik.pl. 6 August 2022. Retrieved 20 March 2025.
  4. ^ Kalemba, Tomasz (19 May 2021). "Jump to Szewińska, the 18-year-old revelation of the season". przegladsportowy.onet.pl. Retrieved 20 March 2025.
  5. ^ "Athletics. Anna Matuszewicz: there will still be time for gold medals". Sport.tvp.pl. 4 July 2021. Retrieved 20 March 2025.
  6. ^ "Anna Matuszewicz jumps into the distance. The 19-year-old from Toruń has a talent comparable to Irena Szewińska". Torun.wyborcza.pl. 10 April 2022. Retrieved 20 March 2025.
  7. ^ "Cali: Anna Matuszewicz fifth in the long jump final". pzla.pl. 5 August 2022. Retrieved 20 March 2025.
  8. ^ "Polish Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 17 February 2024. Retrieved 20 March 2025.
  9. ^ "Polish Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 22 February 2025. Retrieved 20 March 2025.
  10. ^ "Anna Matuszewicz has to cancel her vacation. Why? She jumped the furthest in 30 years". Sport.tvp.pl. 25 February 2025. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
  11. ^ "HME in Apeldoorn in athletics. Patryk Sieradzki from Bydgoszcz started with a personal best! Anna Matuszewicz was eliminated in the qualifying rounds". pomorska.pl. 7 March 2025. Retrieved 20 March 2025.
  12. ^ "Athletics IAAF World Championships. Modest team, but several medal chances for the white and reds". Sport.tv.pl. 19 March 2025. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  13. ^ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 18 September 2025. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
  14. ^ "Lekkoatletyka. Znamy skład reprezentacji Polski na MŚ w Tokio". Sport.tvp.pl. 29 August 2025. Retrieved 30 August 2025.
  15. ^ Mills, Steven (1 February 2026). "A 46-year-old Polish record broken! Matuszewicz jump 6.77m in Gorzow". European Athletics. Retrieved 2 February 2026.
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