Maryna Gąsienica-Daniel

Maryna Gąsienica-Daniel
Gąsienica-Daniel in January 2017
Personal information
Born (1994-02-19) 19 February 1994
Zakopane, Poland
OccupationAlpine skier
Height1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Skiing career
DisciplinesGiant slalom
World Cup debut28 December 2011 (age 17)
Olympics
Teams3 – (2014, 2018, 2022)
Medals0
World Championships
Teams6 − (20132023)
Medals0
World Cup
Seasons11 − (20122019, 2021
        2023)
Podiums0
Overall titles0 − (33rd in 2022)
Discipline titles0 – (9th in GS, 2022)
Medal record
Women's alpine skiing
Representing  Poland
Winter Universiade
2013 TrentinoGiant slalom

Maryna Gąsienica-Daniel (born 19 February 1994) is a World Cup alpine ski racer from Poland. She competed for Poland at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the alpine skiing events, and was 32nd in the giant slalom. She finished 34th in the giant slalom at the World Championships in 2013, and won a gold medal in giant slalom at the 2013 Winter Universiade. She was also fifth in the giant slalom at the 2013 World Junior Championships in Quebec. At the 2021 World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, she placed joint fifth in the parallel giant slalom and sixth in the giant slalom.

She is from a winter sports family: her grandfather Franciszek Gąsienica Daniel was a competitive skier. Although he did not compete at the Winter Olympics, Maryna is the seventh member of her family to represent Poland at the Winter Games: the others include Franciszek's siblings Helena Gąsienica Daniel (cross-country skiing), Andrzej Gąsienica Daniel (ski jumping), Maria Gąsienica Daniel-Szatkowska (alpine skiing) and Józef Gąsienica Daniel (nordic combined), as well as one of her maternal great-grandfathers, cross-country skier Andrzej Krzeptowski, and Maryna's sister, alpine racer Agnieszka Gąsienica-Daniel.

Her parents run a hostel in the Tatra Mountains. She is god-daughter of Sebastian Karpiel-Bułecka, frontman of the folk group Zakopower.