Aleksandra Wierzbicka, a longtime producer associated with the TVN group and Eurosport, died on Sunday, 20 September 2026. She was 41. In recent years she had been fighting breast cancer.
Who she was
She was associated with the TVN group for a decade, nine years of which as a producer at TVN24. She later moved into sport, first at Polsat Sport and then at Eurosport, where she worked as head of production. She covered, among other events, the Olympic Games in Beijing and Paris.
Outside television, she danced, performed artistically and played hockey. In June, the TVN24 hockey team played a charity match in her support against the Polish Artists’ Hockey National Team.
Illness
In 2018 she underwent two mastectomy and breast reconstruction operations, followed by a long recovery. She returned to work. In 2023, cancer was found to have spread to a lymph node and bone. A fundraiser for her treatment was launched at that time, and TVN24 also joined in to help. To the end, she believed she would beat the disease.
