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Barbara Sobotta
Medal record
Women’s Athletics
Representing  Poland
Olympic Games
Bronze 1960 Rome 4×100 m relay
European Championships
Gold 1958 Stockholm 200 metres
Gold 1962 Belgrade 4 x 100 m relay
Bronze 1958 Stockholm 4 x 100 m relay
Bronze 1962 Belgrade 200 metres
Universiade
Gold 1961 Sofia 200 m

Barbara Sobotta (née Janiszewska; December 4, 1936, in Poznań – November 20, 2000, in Kraków) was a Polish athlete who mainly competed in the women's sprint events during her career.

In 1958 in Stockholm, she won the European Championships 200 metres race (as Maria Leontyavna Itkina won the bronze medal).

She competed for Poland at the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy where she won the bronze medal in the women's 4 x 100 metres with her teammates Teresa Wieczorek, Celina Jesionowska and Halina Richter.

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