Katarzyna Zdziebło of Poland finished second in the 35 km race walk on Friday at the World Athletics Championships in the US city of Eugene, Oregon.
Poland's Paweł Fajdek is the new hammer throw world champion after winning gold at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, while another Pole, Wojciech Nowicki, came away with a silver medal.
Once a calling card for urban rot, this week’s PLN 52 million deal will see Warsaw’s Skra stadium receive a three-pronged makeover, with stage one seeing the development of a rugby pitch, athletics training facilities and green areas.
The medley of household names include gold-winning pole-vaulter Władysław Kozakiewicz whose celebratory ‘up yours’ gesture towards the Russian crowd scandalized the 1980 Moscow Olympics and world-record discus thrower Halina Konopacka who during WWII squirrelled Poland’s gold reserve to France.
Belarusian runner Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who fled to Warsaw after refusing to fly home from the Tokyo Olympics, has joined Team Orlen, a group of athletes sponsored by the Polish state-owned fuel company PKN Orlen.
As the Olympics enters its final few days, we bring you the highs and lows of Poland’s week.
With seven Olympic medals, including four golds, won so far for athletic events at the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, the tournament has been the best ever for Polish athletes.
Polish runners scooped two gold and three silver medals at the World Athletics Relays Silesia 2021 competition in the Polish southern city of Chorzów on Saturday and Sunday.
Sprightly Stanisław was awarded the title of Ambassador of Best Practices in Sport during an announcement of the top 50 Most Influential People in Polish Sport in 2020.
Over seven events, Poland took a staggering 29 gold medals in athletics, boxing, fencing, shooting, and weightlifting, foil fencing – in which they picked up five for each team player – another 19 for each member of the football team.
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