Katarzyna Wasick
Katarzyna Maria Wasick, known as Kasia, is a Polish sprinter swimmer who specializes in freestyle. Born on March 22, 1992 in Kraków, she holds Poland’s national records in the 50 and 100 meter freestyle in both long and short course. Wasick has competed for Poland at five Olympic Games (2008 Beijing, 2012 London, 2016 Rio, 2020 Tokyo held in 2021, and 2024 Paris) and has earned medals at world and European championships.
She trained in Poland with AZS AWF Katowice before the 2012 Olympics and then studied at the University of Southern California, where she swam for coach Dave Salo for four years, earning 12 All-American honors and becoming a Pac-12 finalist. After the 2016 Olympics she briefly retired due to injury, returned to competition in 2018 with the Las Vegas Masters, and later joined UNLV’s pro group. In the International Swimming League she swam for the Cali Condors and New York Breakers and was drafted by the Toronto Titans.
Wasick’s 50m freestyle is one of her strongest events. At the Tokyo Olympics (held in 2021) she finished 5th in the 50m freestyle. In 2021 she won silver in the 50m and 100m freestyle at the European Short Course Championships in Kazan and earned relay medals, and she took bronze in the 50m freestyle at the World Short Course Championships in Abu Dhabi. In 2022 she won a silver medal in the 50m freestyle at the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, becoming the second Polish woman after Otylia Jędrzejczak to win a long-course world medal.
She is the daughter of Zbigniew Wilk, a former boxer, and has two older brothers who swim and a sister who ran track. She earned a psychology degree from USC and lives in Las Vegas with her husband, Matthew Wasick.
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