Dorota Trafankowska
| Dorota Trafankowska | |
|---|---|
| Born | 28 July 1953 Poznań, Poland |
| Gymnastics career | |
| Discipline | Rhythmic gymnastics |
| Country represented | Poland |
| Level | International Elite |
| Club | Energetic |
| Head coach(es) | Vanda Skrzydlevskaya |
| Retired | yes |
Dorota Trafankowska (born 28 July 1953) is a Polish retired gymnast. She was national champion in 1971.
Career
[edit]Dorota was born in Poznan in the family of Miroslav Trabankovsky. She was a pupil of the Poznan rhythmic gymnastics school founded by Vanda Skrzydlevskaya in 1963.[1][2] In the 70s–80s it was the best gymnastics school in the country, its representatives won the national championships almost continuously (until the victory of Travankovski won, then Grazyna Boyarskaya, and then Jadwig Hammering and Lucin Cervinskaya). At the 1969 World Championships in Varna, Travankovskaya took the 28th place in the individual All-Around, 11 places behind Boyarskaya and not much ahead of Alina Bosko.[3] In 1971, representing the club "Energetic" from Poznań, Dorota won the Polish Championships. She also starred in the video "Her Portrait" (Polish: Jej portret) of Bogislaw Metz, one of the most popular performers of the country of those years.[4] After Dorota's retirement she married and now lives in the United States.
References
[edit]- ^ "Wanda Skrzydlewska | Środowisko | Poznan.pl". www.poznan.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 13 November 2022.
- ^ "Poznan club". zsms.poznan.pl. Archived from the original on 3 December 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
- ^ "4.WorldChampionships in Varna, Bulgaria (27.-29. September 1969)". r-gymnast.bplaced.net. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
- ^ Borowiec, Krzysztof (19 March 2013). "Portret muzyką malowany". TEMI – Twoje Media Informacyjne (in Polish). Retrieved 13 November 2022.