The national squad bagged 14 podium finishes at the European Athletics Championship in Munich, among them three gold medals leaving the country sixth in the overall rankings.
Poland's Anna Wielgosz took the bronze medal in the women's 800-metre run at the European Championships in Munich on Saturday.
Polish athletes Karolina Naja and Anna Pulawska have won gold medal in the women's 500-m kayak doubles (K2) race at the European Championships in Munich.
Athlete Aleksandra Lisowska has become the first-ever Polish woman to win gold in the European Championship marathon.
Olga Safronova, who was excluded from the Belarusian equestrian team at the Tokyo Olympics, is another sportswoman from that country, after Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who has found shelter in Poland, PAP has learnt.
After Poland issued a Belarusian athlete a humanitarian visa on Monday, the prime minister has argued that the aggression of Belarusian services in Japan should be firmly opposed by the international community.
In an interview with PAP, the president of the World Anti-doping Agency, Witold Banka, discusses the successful prosecuton of Russia for institutionalised doping, the penalty imposed, and the future of the agency's mission.
The late sprinter Irena Szewinska is among five female athletes nominated for the title of '75-year legend' by the magazine Athletic Weekly.
Krzysztof Gajewski covered about 130 kilometres in his swim in a lake near Wrocław that began at 5 o’clock in the afternoon on Friday and finished at the same hour two days later.
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