Liliana Lewińska (born 2 November 2008, Wrocław) is a Polish rhythmic gymnast.[1] She is the 2023 Junior World clubs and ribbon champion, as well as the 2022 European hoop and clubs silver medalist and ribbon bronze medalist.
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| Nickname(s) | Lila, Lily | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 November 2008 Wroclaw, Poland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Rhythmic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Poland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 2021–present | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | International Elite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | UKS Kopernik Wrocław | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Krystyna Leskiewicz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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At the national level, she is the 2024 Polish all-around Senior Champion. She is the 2022 and 2023 Polish Junior individual and team champion,[2] and the 2021 Polish Junior individual champion and team silver medalist,[3] competing as part of her club UKS Kopernik Wrocław.
Personal life
editHer mother, 1996 Olympian Krystyna Leskiewicz-Lewinska, is her coach and also the head coach of the Polish rhythmic gymnastics national team, and head coach and president of the UKS Kopernik Wroclaw where both Liliana and her other daughter Laura train.[4] Her father, Rajmund, is a basketball referee and a physical education teacher. She took up the sport at age 5 as a group gymnast after being gifted a ball at the National Youth Olympics.[5]
Career
editJunior
editShe debuted into major competitions at the 2021 international tournament in Moscow in February, winning bronze in the all-around, 5th with hoop, ball, clubs and 12th with ribbon. In April, she participated in the Sofia Cup in Bulgaria, topping the all-around. In May she came second in the all-around and ball, and 3rd with clubs and topping hoop at the Irina Deleanu cup in Bucharest.[6] In September she competed at the Gdynia Cup.
In 2022 she returned to the Moscow Grand Prix, winning silver in all events.[7] She won the all-around at the Gdynia Cup and also won all the apparatus finals except hoop, where she finished in second.[8] The following week, she attended the World Challenge Cup in Portimão, getting bronze with hoop, silver with clubs and gold with ribbon.[9] Lewińska was then selected for the 2022 European Championship in Tel Aviv, Israel. She was the only junior gymnast representing Poland in the competition. She qualified for all four event finals and won two silvers with hoop and clubs and bronze with ribbon.[10]
At the 2023 Fellbach-Schmiden's international tournament, she didn't compete in the team competition but won silver with hoop and ribbon as well as gold with clubs.[11][12] In March she won gold in the all-around at the Aphrodite Cup in the category for those born in 2008 and silver with ball.[13][14] At the IT Sofia Cup, she won silver in the all-around as well as with hoop.[15][16] In May she won gold in teams, the all-around and with ball and clubs at the Gdynia Cup. Additionally, she won a silver with ribbon and bronze with hoop.[17][18][19][20][21][22] In July she competed at the Junior World Championships in Cluj-Napoca alongside the junior national group, where she made history by winning gold in the clubs and ribbon finals.[23]
Senior
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In 2024 she made her senior debut at World Cup Palaio Faliro, Greece, where she ended in 11th place in the all-around and won a bronze medal in the hoop final. In April, she competed at Sofia World Cup and took 7th place in the all-around. She qualified to two apparatus finals: clubs (6th) and ribbon (5th). She won her second World Cup medal at Tashkent World Cup, a bronze in the ribbon final.[24]
In May, Lewińska competed at the European Championships in Budapest, Hungary, where she finished 10th in the all-around final and won a silver medal in the clubs final. It was European medal won at the senior level by a gymnast representing Poland.[25] The Polish team won 7th place in the team competition.[26]
She failed to qualify to the 2024 Summer Olympics, being beaten by Vera Tugolukova, who won the quota for Cyprus. However, before the allocation of the spot was officially confirmed, the Polish Gymnastics Federation alleged that the judging was corrupt and that Lewińska's scores were lowered, preventing her from winning the Olympic berth. The supervising judge who changed Lewińska's scores was a Cypriot national.[27] The Polish Gymnastics Federation's president announced their intention to protest the results, and they filed appeals to the International Gymnastics Federation and the Gymnastics Ethics Foundation.[28] He later said that some of the judges at the competition had filed complaints as well.[29] The Polish Minister of Sport, Sławomir Nitras, also intervened by sending a letter to the FIG Executive Committee.[30]
Achievements
edit- First Polish rhythmic gymnast to win a medal at the European Championships.[31]
Routine music information
edit| Year | Apparatus | Music title |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Hoop | Gloria Regali by Fleurie, Tommee Profitt |
| Ball | Évidemment by La Zarra | |
| Clubs | Bring On the Men from the musical Jekyll & Hyde | |
| Ribbon | Assault soundtrack from The Athena composed by Gener8ion | |
| 2023 | Hoop | O Fortuna by Carl Orff |
| Ball | Mephisto's Lullaby Xtortion Audio | |
| Clubs (first) | Gaston by Josh Gad, Luke Evans & Ensemble | |
| Clubs (second) | Queen of Kings by Alessandra | |
| Ribbon | Assault soundtrack from The Athena composed by Gener8ion | |
| 2022 | Hoop | O Fortuna by Carl Orff |
| Ball | Życie, Kocham Cię Nad Życie by Edyta Geppert | |
| Clubs | Gaston by Josh Gad, Luke Evans & Ensemble | |
| Ribbon | No Face No Name No Number by Modern Talking | |
| 2021 | Hoop | Starvation by Thomas Bergersen |
| Ball | Theme From Love Story (Finale) by Francis Lai | |
| Clubs | Waltz No. 2 by Dmitri Shostakovich | |
| Ribbon | Dulcea Si Tandra Mea Fiara by Eugen Doga & Victoria Demici, performed by Catalina Caraus |
References
edit- ^ "LEWINSKA Liliana - FIG Athlete Profile". www.gymnastics.sport. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
- ^ "14-16.10.2022 - Individual and Team Polish Championships, class I, Polish Junior Women's Cup in rhythmic gymnastics" (PDF) (in Polish). Retrieved 9 July 2023.
- ^ "22-24.10.2021 - IMP i DMP juniorek 2021- Wyniki" (PDF) (in Polish). Retrieved 9 July 2023.
- ^ "Lewińska excited as she prepares to fight for multiple medals at FIG Juniors". www.insidethegames.biz. 6 July 2023. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
- ^ "Liliana Lewińska. 14-latka, która pisze historię". www.polsatsport.pl (in Polish). 5 August 2023. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
- ^ Results FIG Irina Deleanu Cup 2021 gfl.lv
- ^ "Grand Prix Mosca, 16-20/2/2022". www.beatricevivaldi.com (in Italian). 15 February 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
- ^ Junior FIG results gdyniastars.pl
- ^ Result Book ginastica.org
- ^ "European Gymnastics". European Gymnastics. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
- ^ "2023 Fellbach-Schminden Junior Teams" (PDF). rsg.stb.de.
- ^ "2023 Fellbach-Schminden Junior Finals" (PDF). rsg.stb.de.
- ^ "2023 Aphrodite Cup Junior All-Around" (PDF). aphroditecup.com.
- ^ "2023 Aphrodite Cup Junior Ball Final" (PDF). aphroditecup.com.
- ^ "2023 IT Sofia Cup Junior All-Around" (PDF). sofiaworldcup2023.com.[dead link]
- ^ "2023 IT Sofia Cup Junior Finals" (PDF). static.usagym.org.
- ^ "2023 Gdynia Cup Junior Teams" (PDF). gdyniastars.pl.
- ^ "2023 Gdynia Cup Junior All-Around" (PDF). gdyniastars.pl.
- ^ "2023 Gdynia Cup Ball Final" (PDF). gdyniastars.pl.
- ^ "2023 Gdynia Cup Junior Clubs Final" (PDF). gdyniastars.pl.
- ^ "2023 Gdynia Cup Junior Hoop Final" (PDF). gdyniastars.pl.
- ^ "2023 Gdynia Cup Ribbon Final" (PDF). gdyniastars.pl.
- ^ FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics Junior World Championships. Swiss Timing. 2023. Archived from the original on 31 July 2023. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
- ^ "Kaleyn and Varfolomeev to meet for thrilling test in Tashkent". International Gymnastics Federation. 24 April 2024. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
- ^ "Historyczny medal dla Polski! Liliana Lewińska wicemistrzynią Europy!" [A historic medal for Poland! Liliana Lewińska is the silver medalist of Europe!]. www.polsatsport.pl (in Polish). 26 May 2024. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
- ^ "40th European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships Teams Qualification Seniors" (PDF). European Gymnastics.
- ^ Paweł Żurek (25 May 2024). "Sędzia okradła Polkę z awansu na igrzyska. Gigantyczny skandal na mistrzostwach". radiozet.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 14 June 2024.
- ^ Szutenberg, Aleksandra (24 May 2024). "Skandal! Polka ograbiona z olimpijskiej kwalifikacji i finałów ME!" [Scandal! The Pole was robbed of the Olympic qualification and European Championship finals!]. www.polsatsport.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 24 May 2024.
- ^ "Polka okradziona z kwalifikacji olimpijskiej. Mocna reakcja. "Trzeba o tym głośno mówić"" [Polish woman robbed of the Olympic qualifier. A strong reaction. “You have to talk about it out loud.”]. www.polsatsport.pl (in Polish). 1 June 2024. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
- ^ Jan Juszczuk (4 June 2024). "Sławomir Nitras reaguje na skandal z Budapesztu. Mocne słowa". onet.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 14 June 2024.
- ^ Aleksandra Szutenberg (26 May 2024). "Historyczny medal dla Polski! Liliana Lewińska wicemistrzynią Europy!" (in Polish). Retrieved 4 June 2024.
