Career
Knapik took up fencing at a club in Krakow 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.
In the senior category she climbed her first World Cup podium in 2010 with a third place in Florina.
At the 2013 European Championships in Zagreb she reached the quarter-finals by defeating Ukraine"s Anfisa Pochkalova, then lost to Romania"s Ana Maria Brânză and came away with a bronze medal. Knapik studies civil engineering from the Tadeusz Kościuszko University of Technology.