Emelia Gorecka

After winning a number of youth titles at the national level, Górecka had her first international success at the 2010 European Cross Country Championships, where she won a bronze medal in the Junior race.

In the 2011 European Cross Country Championships she won the junior women's race and led Britain to victory in the team event.

On 8 December 2013, Górecka came 1st at the European Cross Country Championships in Belgrade, Serbia with a comfortable win over Polish athlete, Sofia Ennaoui with a time of 13:06.

The three-time European junior cross-country champion followed Great Britain women's captain Gemma Steel for much of the race, before slipping to third place on the final lap.

I didn’t expect to get in the front but I felt good... the last lap was a bit of a struggle but my strength will hopefully come on in the next couple of years.

And Górecka also said she wants one last victory as a junior before concentrating on moving up to the adult ranks: “I’m still a junior for the national cross-country, so I’d love to go there to get my eighth consecutive win... then I will go on to do some senior races, maybe some indoors, and then onto the track, but hopefully I will keep going quicker.”[7] During her first year with Aldershot, Farnham & District AC that she was diagnosed with scoliosis – a medical condition which means that she had a curvature of the spine.