Career
Born in Gdynia, competing at the 2004 Olympics, she placed fourth with 4.55 metres, just behind another Polish pole vaulter born in Gdynia, Anna Rogowska. Monika Pyrek"s personal best is 4.82 metres. She officially retired on 11 January 2013.
Born in Gdynia, competing at the 2004 Olympics, she placed fourth with 4.55 metres, just behind another Polish pole vaulter born in Gdynia, Anna Rogowska. Monika Pyrek"s personal best is 4.82 metres. She officially retired on 11 January 2013.
Monika Pyrek won a silver medal in the 2005 World Championships in Athletics with the result 4.60 m. She also won the silver medal at the 2006 European Athletics Championships. She has won the Polish Championship several times, most recently at the 2007 Polish Athletics Championships in Poznań. Foreign her sport achievements, she received: Knight"s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (5th Class) in 2009. Monika Pyrek won the 12th season of Polish Dancing with the Stars -.