The district Court in Plonsk, central Poland, on Thursday sentenced Polish Olympic swimming champion Otylia Jedrzejczak, charged for unintentionally causing a car accident, for nine months' limitation of freedom and 30 hours of community service a month.

The court also banned her from car driving for 12 months, the Polish PAP news agency quoted judge in the case Andrzej Szymanski as saying.

The prosecutor motioned for 12 months prison term suspended for 3 years and ban on car driving for 2 years. Attorneys-at-law wanted a not guilty sentence.

Otylia Jedrzejczak hit a tree while trying to overturn another car in the locality of Miaczyn, Mazowieckie province on October 1, 2005. She was driving at 120 kilometers per hour, 30 kilometers more than the legal speed limit. As a result her 19-year-old brother was killed and she had to be hospitalized with spine and shoulder injury.

After the accident Jedrzejczak withdrew from sport for two months but returned to win three gold medals at the European Championships in 2006.

Jedrzejczak became an Olympic gold medallist in the butterfly in the Athens 2004 Olympics.

Source: Xinhua