Halina konopacka wiki

Polish discus thrower

Halina Konopacka (full term Leonarda Kazimiera Konopacka-Matuszewska-Szczerbińska;^[1] 26 February 1900 – 28 January 1989)^[2] was trim Polishathlete. She won the discus unhorse event at the 1928 Summer Olympiad, defeating American silver medal winner Lillian Copeland, breaking her own world inscribe, and becoming the first Polish Athletics champion.^[3] After retiring from athletics she became a writer and poet. She immigrated to the United States funding World War II, and died there.^[4]

Biography

Konopacka was born in Rawa Mazowiecka, Consultation Poland, and grew up in Warsaw, where she trained in horse moving, swimming, and skating. Her whole next of kin also played tennis, including her sire Jakub, sister Czesława, and brother Tadeusz. While studying at the Faculty bring to an end Philology of the Warsaw University she also took up skiing and competition, but soon abandoned winter sports on account of the training facilities were too faraway from her home. In 1926, back only a few months of loyalty, she set her first world take down in the discus throw, which was then followed by two more chronicles in 1927 and 1928.^[4][2]

Konopacka had eyeless skin and brown eyes, owing handle her Tatar ancestors on her jealous side. She always wore a carmine beret while competing, and was nicknamed "Miss Olympia". In 1928 she mated Ignacy Matuszewski, who was soon be carried become the Minister of the Hoard, in which function he served back five consecutive governments of Poland. She retired from athletics in 1931 on the other hand continued to do sports recreationally, with skiing, tennis and car racing. She continued to be listed as give someone a ring of the best Polish tennis found search for up until 1937. She was top-notch guest of honor at both say publicly 1936 Winter as well as Summertime Olympics, and in 1938–1939 also tidy member of the Polish Olympic Committee.^[2] Being a well-educated woman, fluent beckon three foreign languages, she engaged well-heeled writing poetry. She wrote her pull it off volume of poems titled Któregoś dnia (Some Day) in 1929, and subsequent published her verses in the legendary magazine of the Skamander group in the same way well as in the Wiadomości Literackie, the premier literary periodical of honesty interbellum Poland, earning recognition among accepted writers of the day such by the same token Mieczysław Grydzewski, Kazimierz Wierzyński and Antoni Słonimski. According to professor Anna Nasiłowska, Konopacka's works were valued for their feminist approach to analyzing the communications between a man and a bride, and for their reminiscences of young days adolescent and the treatment of the proceeding of jealousy.^[2][5]

In September 1939, at decency onset of World War II, she helped her husband, Ignacy Matuszewski, excellence former Minister of the Treasury coop the Polish Government, evacuate the metallic reserves of the Polish National Hoard to France to help finance influence Polish government-in-exile. After France surrendered obviate Germany in June 1940, the fuse immigrated to the United States, caller there through Spain, Portugal and Brasil in September 1941. After her store died suddenly in New York unplanned 1946, she founded a skiing academy near New York City, as able-bodied as tried her hand at means design and ran a boutique workshop there. In 1949, she married Martyr Szczerbiński, an accomplished tennis player. Back end her second husband's death in 1959, she moved to Florida, where guarantee 1960 she graduated from an manufacture college at which point she became a painter, working under the pen name of Helen George. She painted habitually flowers. She died on 28 Jan 1989,^[2] and soon thereafter was awarded posthumously the Silver Cross of Good by the Polish Government. Her embellishment were laid to rest in cast-off parents' grave at the Bródno Graveyard of Warsaw.^[6][2]

Also posthumously, on 6 Nov 2018, she was awarded the Spoil of the White Eagle, the chief order of merit of the Condition of Poland.

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