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Fencing champ named as Polish PM’s pick for sports minister

03.12.2019 16:45
Former world fencing champion Danuta Dmowska-Andrzejuk has been named as the Polish prime minister’s pick for his next sports minister.
Mateusz Morawiecki and Danuta Dmowska-Andrzejuk.
Mateusz Morawiecki and Danuta Dmowska-Andrzejuk.Photo: Adam Guz/KPRM

“An award-winning fencer, a strong and determined woman of success, a brilliant conversationalist,” Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said of Dmowska-Andrzejuk in a social media post on Tuesday.

“One can safely venture to say that Danuta Dmowska-Andrzejuk has a Midas touch for sport as few others do,” Morawiecki added.

Dmowska-Andrzejuk, a 2005 world épée champion, is expected to take over as Poland's sports minister from Witold Bańka, a former 400-metres runner-turned-politician who was last month confirmed as the new head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

Morawiecki himself has been doubling as sports minister since his new Cabinet was sworn into office last month.

(gs/pk)

Source: IAR, PAP