Julia Sheremeta she had no chance in final with the favored Taiwanese Lin Yu-Ting and won the silver medal at the Olympic Games Paris 2024. – After 32 years of waiting for an Olympic medal in boxing, she came. Always unruly, full of energy, to the point that her parents had to sign her up for karate so she could go wild. Karate turned into boxing, and boxing gave Yulia Szeremeta a silver medal just before her 21st birthday – wrote Kacper Sosnowski from Sport.pl after Julia Szeremeta's silver medal at the Olympic Games in Paris.
Julia Szeremeta with an award
The 20-year-old returned to the country on Monday with volleyball players. At Warsaw's Okęcie airport she received flowers from boxing trainer Krzysztof Wójcik. Since then Poland the boxer fulfills media duties in the Polish media. On Wednesday, August 14, she went to Lublin, where she was received by the city authorities and the mayor Krzysztof Żuk. During the meeting, Julia Szeremeta was honored with the Medal of the Mayor of Lublin. In addition, she also received a cash prize of PLN 25,000.
– I would like to thank the city for its support and appreciation of me. I hope that together we will promote boxing and physical activity in general. I would also like to thank all the fans. Both those in the stands in Paris and those in the country – said the silver Olympic medalist at a press conference with journalists in the Lublin city hall.
– I hope that Olympic boxing will be reborn, will rise and we will be at the very top, just like we were a dozen or so years ago – she added.
She also talked about life after a huge success. – For now, I'm finding my way around – she emphasized. – It's very hard, because it's meeting after meeting, but I'm very happy that there's such a great reception and interest – she noted.