Zuzanna Mazurek

Career

She is a multiple-time former Polish record holder in both 100 and 200 m backstroke. Mazurek made her international debut at the 2007 European Junior Swimming Championships, where she edged out her teammate Iwona Lefanowicz to claim the bronze in the 200 m backstroke by 0.29 of a second, finishing with a time of 2:16.36. Mazurek qualified for two swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by breaking a Polish record and clearing a FINA A-standard entry time of 2:12.65 (200 m backstroke) from the national championships in Ostrowiec.

In the 200 m backstroke, Mazurek finished behind Ireland"s Melanie Nocher in second place on the same heat by 0.17 of a second, lowering her record to 2:12.46.

Mazurek missed the semifinals by nearly two seconds, as she placed twenty-first overall in the preliminaries.

Achievements

• By the following year, she won a gold medal in the same discipline at the 2008 FINA Youth World Swimming Championships in Monterrey, Mexico, breaking a games record of 2:12.56. She won the second heat of the 100 m backstroke by 0.15 of a second ahead of Guatemala"s Gisela Morales, with a Polish record time of 1:02.77, but finished farther from the semifinal field in thirty-sixth place.

Membership

Mazurek is also a member of UKP Fala Kraśnik, and is coached and trained by Slawomir Pliszka.