Countrywoman Aleksandra Mirosław, who holds the world record for the event of 6.25 seconds, finished runner-up in the competition in the southern Polish city of Tarnów.
The 29-year-old reached the top of a 15-metre wall in 6.63 seconds in the final race to claim the silver, while Italy's Beatrice Colli took the bronze.
Karate bronze for Poland
Earlier on Thursday afternoon, Poland's Miłosz Sabiecki won the men's karate kumite 67 kg bronze medal in Bielsko-Biała, another European Games venue in southern Poland, public broadcaster Polish Radio’s IAR news agency reported.
Poland's Miłosz Sabiecki (right) in action against Burak Uygur of Turkey in the men's karate kumite competition at the 2023 European Games in the southern Polish city of Bielsko-Biała on Thursday, June 22, 2023. Photo: Omar Marques/Anadolu Agency/ABACAPRESS.COM via PAP
A total of 370 Polish athletes, 188 men and 182 women, are vying for medals at the 3rd European Games, which opened in the southern Polish city of Kraków on Wednesday and run until July 2.
Host nation Poland has so far won six medals at the continental multi-sport event, three gold, one silver and two bronze.
The 2023 European Games feature 12 days of competition in 29 sports and provide opportunities to win European championship medals and a pathway to qualify for the 2024 Olympic Games in some of the sports.
Polish Sports Minister Kamil Bortniczuk has said that Poland is aiming to top the medals table of the Games.
"We set ourselves ambitious goals," Bortniczuk said. "We hope to finish top of the medal standings."
More than 7,000 athletes from 48 countries have flocked to Poland to compete in the event, which is taking place at 25 venues in 13 southern Polish cities.
Poland won 14 medals, three gold, one silver and 10 bronze, at the 2nd European Games in Minsk, Belarus in 2019.
Team Poland scooped 20 medals, two gold, eight silver and 10 bronze, at the 1st European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan, in 2015.
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Source: PAP, TVP Sport, polskieradio24.pl, european-games.org
