Teresa Kodelska

Teresa Kodelska took an interest in skiing at an early age, but her youth was spent under the German occupation of Poland. Aged only 15, she took part in the Warsaw Uprising and managed to escape the city in the aftermath, although her mother did not survive. After the war she studied economics and commerce, but also joined AZS Warszawa in 1946, winning her first national championships in the slalom in 1948, also coming in second in the downhill and the combined. After coming in third in the downhill and combined in 1951, she won the slalom and the giant slalom in 1952, which led to her selection to represent Poland at the 1952 Oslo Olympics. There, she was 32nd in the slalom, 34th in the giant slalom, and also competed in the downhill.

After winning a final national bronze in 1954, in the slalom, Kodelska began focusing on her academic career. She earned a doctoral degree in business, specializing in the economics of construction investments, and worked as a professor at the Warsaw School of Economics.