Paula Gorycka (born 5 November 1990 in Kraków[7]) is a Polish cross-country mountain bike,[8] road and cyclo-cross cyclist with two medals from the MTB World Championships and one medal from the MTB European Championships.

I was not satisfied with my 22nd place, but at the same time, I performed similarly to other young athletes who also competed in London.

I will continue to work hard to earn another trip to the Olympics, where I hope to compete for a much better result.

[23] In the U23 category, Paula Gorycka has four podium finishes in the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup.

She first reached the podium in her second World Cup race in September 2009 in Schladming, finishing in third place.

She was leading the race and had a good chance of winning, but a crash – in which she later found out she had broken her tibia – prevented her from doing so.

In May 2012, she once again finished in third place, this time at the World Cup in Nove Mesto na Morave.

In total, she has won 26 medals in the Polish National Championships – 10 gold, 10 silver, and 6 bronze – which she earned in mountain biking in cross-country, marathon, short track, and MTB relay, in cyclo-cross, and in road cycling in road race, individual time trial, mountainous road race, and tandem time trial.

In 2008, during her second year as a junior, she competed in the Tour de Feminin – Krasna Lipa.

[60] In August of that year, she took part in the International Multi-Stage Cycling Race Fortum in Walbrzych, where she finished seventh in the general classification in the women's open category and was also the first classified junior.

She finished the Tour Cycliste Feminin International de l'Ardeche in 62nd place in the general classification.