# Wiktoria Gajosz
**Wiktoria Gajosz** (born 2006 in Chełm) is a Polish sprinter who competes mainly over 100, 200, and 400 meters. She won a bronze medal in the women's 4 × 100 meters relay at the 2026 European Championships in Birmingham, holds World U20 Championships silver from the 4 × 400 m relay, and has won Polish national titles at senior and U23 level.[1](https://dosen.profillengkap.com/pl/Wiktoria_Gajosz) • [2](https://www.sportowetempo.pl/puls_dnia/artykul/61062_LEKKOATLETYKA_WYNIKI_ME_Osiem_medali_Bialo_Czerwonych) • [3](https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/document/6838ed343a3cbb4a52f4c0f1.pdf)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Born | 2006, Chełm, Poland[1](https://dosen.profillengkap.com/pl/Wiktoria_Gajosz) |
| Club | AZS UMCS Lublin; earlier TKS Tomasovia Tomaszów Lubelski[4](https://statystyka.pzla.pl/personal.php?nr_zaw=89275&page=profile&r=2) • [3](https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/document/6838ed343a3cbb4a52f4c0f1.pdf) |
| Personal bests | 100 m 11.28 (+0.8, 2026); 200 m 22.91 (+0.1, 2026); 300 m 36.82 (2024); 400 m 52.94 (2024)[4](https://statystyka.pzla.pl/personal.php?nr_zaw=89275&page=profile&r=2) |
| Major medals | European Championships 2026 bronze (4 × 100 m relay); World U20 Championships 2024 silver (4 × 400 m relay); European U20 Championships 2025 bronze[2](https://www.sportowetempo.pl/puls_dnia/artykul/61062_LEKKOATLETYKA_WYNIKI_ME_Osiem_medali_Bialo_Czerwonych) • [3](https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/document/6838ed343a3cbb4a52f4c0f1.pdf) • [5](https://worldathletics.org/athletes/poland/wiktoria-gajosz-14952244) |
| National titles | Polish senior champion 200 m (2026, 23.01); Polish U23 champion 100 m and 200 m (2026)[6](https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7231706?eventId=10229510&gender=W) • [7](https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7239945?eventId=10229509) |
| Indoor record | Polish U20 indoor record 200 m, 23.68 (Rzeszów, 1 February 2025)[8](https://hmp.domtel-sport.pl/pdf/K200j_3_r.pdf) |
| World ranking | #96 women's 200 m, #300 women's 100 m[5](https://worldathletics.org/athletes/poland/wiktoria-gajosz-14952244) |
## Junior career
Gajosz came up through the Polish age-group system as an athlete of TKS Tomasovia in Tomaszów Lubelski before joining AZS UMCS Lublin.[3](https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/document/6838ed343a3cbb4a52f4c0f1.pdf) • [4](https://statystyka.pzla.pl/personal.php?nr_zaw=89275&page=profile&r=2) In 2024, at age 17, she won the 400 meters at the Polish U20 Championships in Radom with a personal best of 52.94, ahead of Dominika Duraj (52.96).[9](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkH5jkq8DaU) That season she also set her 300 m best of 36.82 in Warsaw.[4](https://statystyka.pzla.pl/personal.php?nr_zaw=89275&page=profile&r=2)
At the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima she ran for Poland and left as a World U20 silver medallist in the 4 × 400 meters relay.[10](https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/document/66bf3a504a17e3cbd23a7e39.pdf) • [3](https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/document/6838ed343a3cbb4a52f4c0f1.pdf)
## 2025 breakthrough
In May 2025, at a meeting in Biała Podlaska, the 18-year-old ran 23.07 over 200 meters. According to statistics reported by Tomasz Spodenkiewicz of the Athletics News profile, this was the fastest 200 m by a junior woman in Europe that year and placed her equal 19th in the all-time Polish senior lists, alongside Ewelina Ptak and Marika Popowicz-Drapała.[11](https://www.sport.pl/lekkoatletyka/7%2C64989%2C32024568%2Cco-za-wynik-fenomenalny-rekord-polki-najlepszy-wynik-w-europie.html) She carried that form to the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, where she entered with a season best of 23.07 and won a bronze medal.[12](https://athlead.gr/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/EU20CH25-Final-Entries-Athletes-List-By-Event-SB.pdf) • [5](https://worldathletics.org/athletes/poland/wiktoria-gajosz-14952244)
Indoors she set the Polish U20 record for the 200 meters, 23.68, in Rzeszów on 1 February 2025, bettering the previous mark of 23.87 by Martyna Kotwiła.[8](https://hmp.domtel-sport.pl/pdf/K200j_3_r.pdf)
## 2026 season
**Record in Sopot.** On 14 June 2026, competing for AZS UMCS Lublin, Gajosz won the 200 meters in Sopot in 22.91 (+0.1 m/s), a personal best and, at the time, the fastest time in Poland for the 2026 season. Her club noted that in the Polish U23 all-time lists only Jolanta Janota had run faster, with 22.90 set nearly 40 years earlier.[13](https://azs.umcs.pl/wiktoria-gajosz-pisze-historie-fantastyczny-rekord-w-sopocie/) • [4](https://statystyka.pzla.pl/personal.php?nr_zaw=89275&page=profile&r=2) Six days later she ran her legal 100 m best, 11.28 (+0.8), in Lublin.[4](https://statystyka.pzla.pl/personal.php?nr_zaw=89275&page=profile&r=2)
At the Polish U23 Championships in Kraków on 11–12 July 2026 she won the 100 meters in 11.24 with a following wind of +2.1 m/s, a time marked as not legal for record purposes, and took the 200 meters title in 23.22 on a rain-soaked track.[7](https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7239945?eventId=10229509) • [14](https://www.pzla.pl/aktualnosci/15187-kolejne-zlote-medale-gajosz-i-szweda-w-mistrzostwach-polski-u23-w-krakowie)
**Senior national title.** At the Polish Championships in [Białystok](https://www.edgepedia.org/bia-ystok), 24–26 July 2026, Gajosz won the women's 200 meters in 23.01 (−0.2 m/s), finishing ahead of Krystsina Tsimanouskaya (23.09) and Marlena Granaszewska (23.30).[6](https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7231706?eventId=10229510&gender=W)
**European Championships.** At the European Championships in Birmingham, 10–16 August 2026, Gajosz ran the second leg for Poland in the 4 × 100 m relay heats, which the team of Tsimanouskaya, Gajosz, Magdalena Stefanowicz, and Ewa Swoboda advanced from in 42.63, the fourth-fastest qualifying time. In the final the quartet took bronze in 43.15 behind Great Britain (42.05) and Switzerland (43.12).[2](https://www.sportowetempo.pl/puls_dnia/artykul/61062_LEKKOATLETYKA_WYNIKI_ME_Osiem_medali_Bialo_Czerwonych) Individually she ran 23.44 in the 200 m heats, placing 15th overall and missing a semifinal place by 0.05 seconds.[2](https://www.sportowetempo.pl/puls_dnia/artykul/61062_LEKKOATLETYKA_WYNIKI_ME_Osiem_medali_Bialo_Czerwonych)
## Events and marks
Gajosz's personal bests span several sprint distances: 100 m 11.28, 200 m 22.91, 300 m 36.82, 400 m 52.94, and 150 m 17.37, plus a wind-assisted 11.24 over 100 m from the 2026 Polish U23 final.[4](https://statystyka.pzla.pl/personal.php?nr_zaw=89275&page=profile&r=2) • [5](https://worldathletics.org/athletes/poland/wiktoria-gajosz-14952244) • [7](https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7239945?eventId=10229509) Indoors she has a 60 m best of 7.57, set in Rzeszów on 31 January 2026, and a 200 m short-track best of 23.68.[15](https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/document/699a203400287880c18215f1.pdf) • [8](https://hmp.domtel-sport.pl/pdf/K200j_3_r.pdf) Her 4 × 100 m relay best of 42.63 comes from the Birmingham European Championships heats.[5](https://worldathletics.org/athletes/poland/wiktoria-gajosz-14952244) • [2](https://www.sportowetempo.pl/puls_dnia/artykul/61062_LEKKOATLETYKA_WYNIKI_ME_Osiem_medali_Bialo_Czerwonych)
## References
1. [Wiktoria Gajosz – profil (Profillengkap)](https://dosen.profillengkap.com/pl/Wiktoria_Gajosz)
2. [Lekkoatletyka, wyniki ME Birmingham 2026 – SportoweTempo.pl](https://www.sportowetempo.pl/puls_dnia/artykul/61062_LEKKOATLETYKA_WYNIKI_ME_Osiem_medali_Bialo_Czerwonych)
3. [Women's 100 Metres Heat 2, 30.05.2025 – World Athletics start list PDF](https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/document/6838ed343a3cbb4a52f4c0f1.pdf)
4. [Wiktoria GAJOSZ – Rekordy, Statystyki PZLA](https://statystyka.pzla.pl/personal.php?nr_zaw=89275&page=profile&r=2)
5. [Wiktoria GAJOSZ – Profile, World Athletics](https://worldathletics.org/athletes/poland/wiktoria-gajosz-14952244)
6. [Polish Championships 2026, Women's 200 Metres – World Athletics results](https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7231706?eventId=10229510&gender=W)
7. [Polish U23 Championships 2026, Women's 100 Metres – World Athletics results](https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7239945?eventId=10229509)
8. [PZLA Halowe Mistrzostwa Polski U18 i U20, 200 m kobiet U20](https://hmp.domtel-sport.pl/pdf/K200j_3_r.pdf)
9. [Wiktoria Gajosz (POL) – Women's 400m, 2024 Poland U20 Athletics Championships (YouTube)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkH5jkq8DaU)
10. [World Athletics U20 Championships Lima 24 – Athletes by event and country](https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/document/66bf3a504a17e3cbd23a7e39.pdf)
11. [Co za wynik, fenomenalny rekord Polki! Najlepszy wynik w Europie – Sport.pl](https://www.sport.pl/lekkoatletyka/7%2C64989%2C32024568%2Cco-za-wynik-fenomenalny-rekord-polki-najlepszy-wynik-w-europie.html)
12. [European Athletics U20 Championships 2025 Tampere – Final entries](https://athlead.gr/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/EU20CH25-Final-Entries-Athletes-List-By-Event-SB.pdf)
13. [Wiktoria Gajosz pisze historię! Fantastyczny rekord w Sopocie – AZS UMCS Lublin](https://azs.umcs.pl/wiktoria-gajosz-pisze-historie-fantastyczny-rekord-w-sopocie/)
14. [Kolejne złote medale Gajosz i Szweda w mistrzostwach Polski U23 w Krakowie – PZLA](https://www.pzla.pl/aktualnosci/15187-kolejne-zlote-medale-gajosz-i-szweda-w-mistrzostwach-polski-u23-w-krakowie)
15. [Women's 60 Metres, ORLEN Copernicus Cup Toruń 2026 – World Athletics PDF](https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/document/699a203400287880c18215f1.pdf)
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