Otylia Jędrzejczak

Otylia Jędrzejczak is a Polish swimmer, born in Ruda Śląska on 13 December 1983, who specialised in the butterfly. She started swimming at six to correct a slight curvature of the spine and won her first junior European titles in 1999. At the 2004 Athens Olympics she won three medals, gold in the 200 metre butterfly, which was the first Olympic swimming gold for Poland, and silver in the 400 metre freestyle and the 100 metre butterfly. She also swam at the Sydney Games in 2000 and placed fourth in Beijing in 2008. She broke the world record in the 200 metre butterfly three times and won world titles in that event in 2003 and 2005. In 2004 she was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.