Hand left-handed FIE Ranking current ranking Height 1.82 m | Weight 70 kg (150 lb) Name Renata Knapik-Miazga Weapons Epee | |
Born 15 July 1988 (age 35)
Tarnow, Poland ( 1988-07-15 ) Club Krakowski Klub Szermierzy (KKS) | ||
Renata Knapik-Miazga (born 15 July 1988) is a Polish epee fencer, bronze medallist at the 2013 European Fencing Championships.
Career
Knapik took up fencing at a club in Krakow after playing with sticks as a child. When she was 14, she was forbidden by her doctors to continue fencing because of problems with her right hand. She switched her weapon hand and went on. She won both an individual and team bronze medal at the 2007 Junior European Championships, then a silver medal at the 2011 U23 European Championships.
In the senior category she climbed her first World Cup podium in 2010 with a third place in Florina. She was national champion of Poland in 2012 and 2013. At the 2013 European Championships in Zagreb she reached the quarter-finals by defeating Ukraine's Anfisa Pochkalova, then lost to Romania's Ana Maria Branza and came away with a bronze medal.
Knapik studies civil engineering from the Tadeusz Kosciuszko University of Technology.