
Meet our speaker - Katarzyna Zillmann

Katarzyna Zillmann

BIO
Polish rower, Olympic vice-champion, world and European champion. She started rowing in 2009. She took up sociology studies at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
Junior career
She became a finalist in the junior world championships in the rudderless four in 2013 (4th place) and the junior world championships in the eight with a rudder in 2014 (6th place). Twice, in 2015 and 2016, she won the world youth championship in the women’s double fours competition, together with Marta Wieliczko, Olga Michalkiewicz and Krystyna Lemanczyk.
Senior career
She has repeatedly stood on the World Cup podium. In 2017 she finished 4th in the double fours at the European Championships, and then in the same competition she won a silver medal at the World Championships (with Agnieszka Kobus-Zawojska, Marta Wieliczko and Maria Sajdak [Springwald]).
In 2018 she became European champion and world champion in the double four (in both starts with Agnieszka Kobus-Zawojska, Marta Wieliczko and Maria Sajdak [Springwald]).
In 2019 she was runner-up in the world double four (with Agnieszka Kobus-Zawojska, Marta Wieliczko and Maria Sajdak [Springwald]).
In 2021, she won a silver medal in the double four at the Tokyo Olympics. The team consisted of: Marta Wieliczko (Wisla Grudziądz), Agnieszka Kobus-Zawojska (AZS-AWF Warsaw) and Maria Sajdak (AZS-AWF Cracow). The rowers were congratulated by the President of Poland, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Culture and Sports.
In August 2021, she was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Rebirth of Poland. Together with her colleagues from the rowing double quadruple sculls, she was ranked 8th in the 87th Sports Review poll for the best athlete of 2021.