Career beginnings Swoboda started competing in
athletics from a young age and after joining the UKS Czwórka Żory athletics club, she began training under her coach Iwona Krupa. She won the Polish youth titles in the
100 metres in 2011 and 2012. The following year she won the national indoor junior
200 metres race. Her international debut came at the
2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics where she placed fourth in the
girls' 100 m with a run of 11.61 seconds; finishing as the best European in the race. Following the event, she ran a personal best and set a new Polish junior record of 11.54 seconds in the 100 m at the
Polish Youth Olympic Days, where she completed a sprint double. At the start of 2014, Swoboda claimed the Polish indoor junior title in the
60 metres. At the European Youth Olympic Trials in
Baku, she won the 100 m and was runner-up in the 200 m. However, she was disqualified in the 100 m final for a
false start in the midst of crowd noise.
Senior career Swoboda won her first senior national title at the 2015 Polish Indoor Championships and she also set a
60 metres European junior record of 7.21 seconds during the competition, which was also a world best for a seventeen-year-old. This gained her selection for the
2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships – her first senior appearance for Poland. Still aged seventeen, she made the final of the 60 m and ran another personal best of 7.20 seconds, improving her European junior record by 0.01 seconds. This was the joint fastest time achieved by a Polish woman in the competition's history – matching that of
Irena Szewińska and
Daria Korczyńska (both of whom were medallists). Swoboda competed in the
100 metres event at the
2016 Summer Olympics, where she reached the semifinals. In March 2018 it was announced that Swoboda would be upgraded to silver medalist at the 2017 European Indoor Championship, after Ukraine's Olesya Povh's was disqualified for the use of unauthorized substances. She was unable to participate at the
2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships in
Toruń after testing positive to
COVID-19 shortly before the start of the championships. Swoboda also did not compete at the
2020 Tokyo Olympics due to injury. On 11 February 2022, she broke the Polish national record in the 60 meters twice at the Orlen Cup meeting in
Łódź and set a new one by achieving 7.00 seconds. On 5 March, she broke the record again at the
Polish Indoor Championships in
Toruń with a time of 6.99 seconds, which was the tenth best result in the history of the competition. She placed fourth at the
2022 World Indoor Championships held in
Belgrade in a time of 7.04 seconds. The same time was measured for the fifth and sixth woman while Swoboda lost the bronze medal by 0.002 s. in Rome At the
Diamond League meeting at the
Silesian Stadium in Chorzów on 16 July 2023, she ran her first sub-11 second 100 m, as she placed third in a personal best of 10.94 seconds, just 0.01 adrift of Ewa Kasprzyk's Polish national record set in 1986. At the
2023 World Athletics Championships she claimed sixth place in the
Women's 100 metres achieving 10.97 seconds, the fastest result by a European woman. In March 2024, Swoboda participated in the
women's 60 meters at the
World Athletics Indoor Championships in
Glasgow. In the semifinals, she improved her personal best record and set a new national record by achieving 6.98 seconds. In the final, she won the silver medal by finishing in a time of 7.00 seconds, thus claiming her first medal at the World Indoor Championships event. In June 2024, Swoboda won a silver medal in the women's 100 meters event at the
European Championships in Rome by achieving 11.03 seconds losing only to
Dina Asher-Smith of Great Britain. At the
2024 Summer Olympics, she reached the semifinals in the
100 meters event, but failed to make the final after falling short of 0.01 seconds to qualify. ==Personal life==