About the school

Kinga Michalik, born on July 14, 2012 in Zaragoza, began her adventure with sports gymnastics at the age of four.

Since the age of six she has been a student of our school and a competitor of the Wisla Krakow Sports Association. She trains under the guidance of Małgorzata Solarz - Kulbicka, Mariusz Kulbicki and Monika Gudowska.

Her favorite competitions are: jumping over the gymnastics table and exercises on asymmetrical handrails.

To her credit, she has already made many successful starts in sports competitions.

She won her first medals at the 2020 and 2021 Inter-Women's Championships for Youngsters in sports gymnastics.

In 2021, together with her teammates, she won a silver medal in the Polish Youth Team Cup.

In 2022, she won a gold medal in the gymnastics table jump at the National Youth Olympics and a gold medal in the jumping final at the Polish Junior Women's Cup in Class III.

In 2022 and 2023 she stood, together with her classmates, on the second step of the podium at the Polish Junior Juniors' Team Championships in Class III.

She also enjoyed great success in 2024. She won a gold medal in the jump final at the Polish Junior Juniors Cup, as well as two medals: a bronze medal in the gymnastics multisport and a silver medal on the asymmetrical handrails at the National Youth Olympics in Class III.

It is worth noting that Kinga manages to combine very good sports results with academic achievements - she finished each school year with a high grade point average and received certificates with distinction.

Oliwia Dziuba, born 29.04.2009, is a graduate of our school, a student of class 8c. She started her adventure with sports gymnastics at the age of 5 in the sports club “Korona Kraków. Since 2018, she has been a player of the “Wisla Krakow” Sports Association. She trains under the guidance of Małgorzata Solarz - Kulbicka and Mariusz Kulbicki. She has a lot of successful starts in national and international competitions to her credit. Already in 2018 she won gold in the Polish Team Championships, and in 2021 she took part in the first training camp of the national team of junior and junior girls.

In 2022, at the National Youth Olympics, she won two medals: silver in the multi-jump and bronze on the asymmetric handrails. Thanks to these successes, she was noticed by the head coach of the national team. In November 2022, she also went with the Polish national team to the first “Olympic Hopes” international tournament, held in Brno, and was the youngest athlete to achieve this. Since then, Oliwia has been going on international trips regularly.

The student achieved her greatest successes at the 2023 tournament in Budapest and won; 2nd place in the gymnastics multisport and 2nd place in the balance beam exercise final, and at the Polish Championships in Zabrze, where she won two medals: silver and bronze as a junior in class I. The athlete finds herself best on the asymmetric handrails, it is her favorite instrument and she devotes a lot of time to it.

It is worth noting that Oliwia achieves very good results not only in sports, but also in studies. Throughout her education at our school she has received a certificate with distinction.

Marek (Mati) Kulczycki, born October 9, 2009 in Cracow. Grade 8b student, competitor of the Cracow Canoe Club, Polish representative under license of the Polish Canoe Association.

Marek specializes in mountain kayaking, i.e. in the Olympic disciplines slalom (permanently on the Olympic program since the 1992 Barcelona Games) and extreme slalom (to appear for the first time at the 2024 Paris Games), as well as kayak freestyle. He scored his first independent paddle strokes at just 6 years old. Since then, with systematic, persistent training (in addition to compulsory school classes and swimming training, he trains 5 times a week at the KOLNA Olympic Preparation Center) he has been improving his skills and, despite his young age, he already has a lot of success on his record at competitions at home and abroad.

Marek is the current Polish Champion in kayak freestyle, Polish Champion in extreme slalom and Polish Vice Champion in slalom, all in the under-14 age group.

He has a lot of successful starts in national and international competitions to his credit, including already finishing five times in European Cup competitions in slalom on the podium - three times on the top step.

For several years he has also been training and competing in a relatively young, but increasingly popular sport in Poland - SUP i.e. Stand up paddle. Marek's paddleboarding is second to none in the country. He is the winner of the 2020, 2021 and 2022 Polish Cup, and has also won the SUP Polish Championships gold three times in his age category.