Agata Wróbel

Agata Wróbel (born August 28, 1981 in Zywiec) is a Polish weightlifter, and is a world record-breaker in the +75kg category.

She took up weightlifting after watching the men compete in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and after learning that women's weightlifting would be an event at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

At the 2000 World Junior Championships she became the first woman to lift 130kg in the snatch discipline. In the same competition her combined total for both the snatch and clean and jerk was a record-breaking 290kg. She has broken no fewer than 11 world records in the sport. In 2002, she was voted 2nd for world weightlifter of the year.

As well as numerous Junior and World Championship successes, coming first in 2002, she has participated in both the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics in the Women's +75kg category, winning a silver medal and a bronze medal respectively.