Karolina Wisniewska

Karolina Wisniewska

Personal information
Nationality	Canada
Born	(1976-07-26) 26 July 1976 (age 47) Warsaw, Poland
Sport
Country	Canada
Sport	Para-alpine skiing
Event(s)	Downhill Super-G Giant Slalom Slalom Super Combined
Club	Sunshine Ski Club
Achievements and titles
Paralympic finals	1998 Winter Paralympics 2002 Winter Paralympics 2010 Winter Paralympics
Medal record 1998 Nagano Giant Slalom 1998 Nagano Super-G 2002 Salt Lake City Giant Slalom 2002 Salt Lake City Slalom 2002 Salt Lake City Downhill 2002 Salt Lake City Super-G 2010 Vancouver Slalom - Standing 2010 Vancouver Super Combined- Standing

Karolina Wisniewska (born July 26, 1976) is a para-alpine standing skier. Born in Warsaw, she moved to Canada when she was 5 years old where she then took up skiing as a form of physical therapy for her cerebral palsy. Over the course of her skiing career, she won eight total Paralympic medals for skiing, and 18 medals at International Paralympic Committee (IPC) World Cups. At the 2002 Winter Paralympics, she earned four medals, the most ever earned by a Canadian para-alpine skier at a single Games. Wisniewska retired from the sport for a second time in May 2012 following an injury in 2011 that resulted in her missing most of the 2011/2012 skiing season.