By Leszek Scisly
GORZOW WIELKOPOLSKI, Poland, December 4. OTYLIA Jedrzejczak put together a strong weekend at the Polish Championships held from Nov. 29 to Dec. 2 in Gorzow Wielkopolski, Poland.
Throughout the meet, Jedrzejczak snared six gold medals and a pair of silvers. She won the 100 (59.19) and 200 fly (2:08.42) as well as the 200 (1:59.32) , 400 (4:12.26) and 800 (8:53.34) freestyle events.
Her AZS AWF Warszawa team of Karolina Szczepaniak, Joanna Golebiowska, Dominika Zak and Jedrzejczak won the 400 free in 3:53.04.
She also took second to Katarzyna Baranowska in the 400 IM (4:45.89) as Baranowska set a Polish record with a time of 4:39.92. She also helped her team take second place in the 400 medley relay as Jedrzejczak, Agnieszka Gapinska, Szczepaniak and Zak fell short with a time of 4:21.76 as the AZS AWFIS Gdansk contingent of Karolina Urbanska, Sylwia Kula, Beata Kaminska and Marianna Milosz won in 4:21.33.
Baranowska also won the 200 IM (2:15.06) and 1500 free (16:46.97) on top of her Polish record in the 400 IM.
Meanwhile, Mateusz Sawrymowicz, who just earned Swimming World's European Male Swimmer of the Year title, swept the distance freestyle events with wins in the 400 (3:50.67), 800 (7:52.17) and 1500 (15:06.14). In the 400 and 800, he defeated another top Polish swimmer Przemyslaw Stanczyk, who was swimming with a high fever and had to withdraw from the 1500.
In other action, Pawel Korzeniowski claimed the 200 fly in 1:56.24, while also topping the 200 free in 1:48.46.
Overall, eight swimmers qualified for the European Championships in Eindhoven next year as Jedrzejczak, Baranowski, Sawrymowicz and Korzeniowski will be joined by Lukasz Gasior, Mateusz Matczak, Iwona Prrdecka and Kaminska.
Click here for full results in Polish.