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Born | Chełm, Poland | 24 August 2003||||||||||||||
Nationality | Poland | ||||||||||||||
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Weight(s) | Featherweight | ||||||||||||||
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||
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Julia Atena Szeremeta (born 24 August 2003) is a Polish amateur boxer in the featherweight division.[1]
At the age of five, Szeremeta began training in karate, later deciding on boxing. She initially trained at MKS II LO Chełm, and after graduating from junior high school, she became a competitor for Paco Lublin.[2]
In 2022, Szeremeta became the Polish champion in the 60 kg category, defeating Żaklina Kociołek in the final.[3][4][5] A year later, she competed at the 2023 European Games, where she finished in 5th place in the 57 kg category[6] after losing in the quarterfinals to Bulgarian Svetlana Staneva,[7][8] and also became the European youth champion in the same category after defeating Bojana Gojković from Montenegro in the final.[9][10]
In March 2024, Szeremeta qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics,[11] where she competed in the 57 kg category. In the first round she defeated Omailyn Alcala from Venezuela,[12] and in the round of 16 she defeated Australian Tina Rahimi.[13] In the quarterfinal she beat Puerto Rican Ashleyann Lozada and ensured herself of at least a bronze medal.[14] It is the first Olympic medal in boxing for Poland since 1992, when Wojciech Bartnik won a bronze.[15] In the semifinal, she won against Nesthy Petecio from the Philippines and advanced to the final,[16] which she lost to Lin Yu-ting of Chinese Taipei by unanimous decision.[17] It was the first Olympic final in boxing for Poland since Paweł Skrzecz's silver medal in 1980.[16]
In 2024, Szeremeta ran in the elections to the Lublin Voivodeship Assembly from the far-right Confederation and Nonpartisan Local Government Activists list, but was not elected.[2][18]