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| Country/Region |  Poland |
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| Code | POL |
| Created | 12 October 1919 |
| Recognized | 1919 |
| Continental Association | EOC |
| Headquarters | Warsaw, Poland |
| President | Andrzej Kraśnicki |
| Secretary General | Adam Krzesiński |
| Website | www.olimpijski.pl |
The Polish Olympic Committee (Polish : Polski Komitet Olimpijski, PKOl) is the National Olympic Committee representing Poland.
The Polish Olympic Committee was established on 12 October 1919 and in 1919 was recognised by the International Olympic Committee.
| President | Term |
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| Stefan Lubomirski | 1919–1921 |
| Kazimierz Lubomirski | 1921–1929 |
| Kazimierz Glabisz | 1929–1945 |
| Alfred Loth | 1946–1952 |
| Włodzimierz Reczek | 1952–1973 |
| Bolesław Kapitan | 1973–1978 |
| Marian Renke | 1978–1986 |
| Bolesław Kapitan | 1986–1988 |
| Aleksander Kwaśniewski | 1988–1991 |
| Andrzej Szalewicz | 1991–1997 |
| Stanisław Stefan Paszczyk | 1997–2005 |
| Piotr Nurowski | 2005–2010 |
| Andrzej Kraśnicki | 2010–present |
The Polish National Federations are the organizations that coordinate all aspects of their individual sports. They are responsible for training, competition and development of their sports. There are currently 29 Olympic Summer and 8 Winter Sport Federations in Poland.
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A sports governing body is a sports organization that has a regulatory or sanctioning function.
Football is the most popular sport in Poland. Over 400,000 Poles play football regularly, with millions more playing occasionally. The first professional clubs were founded in the early 1900s, and the Poland national football team played its first international match in 1921.
Poland's sports include almost all sporting disciplines, in particular: football, volleyball, motorcycle speedway, ski jumping, track and field, handball, basketball, tennis, and combat sport. The first Polish Formula One driver, Robert Kubica, has brought awareness of Formula One Racing to Poland. Volleyball is one of the country's most popular sports, with a rich history of international competition. Poland has made a distinctive mark in motorcycle speedway racing thanks to Tomasz Gollob, Jaroslaw Hampel, Bartosz Zmarzlik, Maciej Janowski and Rune Holta. Speedway is very popular in Poland. They won the world cup (2014), and the Polish Extraleague has the highest average attendances for any sport in Poland. The Polish mountains are an ideal venue for hiking, skiing and mountain biking and attract millions of tourists every year from all over the world. Cross country skiing and ski jumping are popular TV sports, gathering 4–5 million viewers each competition, with Justyna Kowalczyk, Dawid Kubacki, Adam Małysz and Kamil Stoch as the main attractions. Baltic beaches and resorts are popular locations for fishing, canoeing, kayaking and a broad-range of other water-themed sports.
The Latvian Olympic Committee is a non-profit organization that is the National Olympic Committee for Latvia. Its headquarters are in Riga.
Robert Marek Korzeniowski is a Polish former racewalker who won four gold medals at the Olympic Games and three gold medals at World Championships.
The Polish Football Association is the governing body of association football in Poland. It organizes the Polish football leagues, the Polish Cup and the Poland national football team. It is based in the Polish capital of Warsaw.
Janusz Pawłowski is a retired male judoka from Poland. He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics, and won the bronze medal in the Men's Half-Lightweight (–65 kg) division.
The National Olympic and Sports Association of Iceland is the National Olympic Committee representing Iceland, and the highest authority for sporting activity in the country. The main tasks of the ÍSÍ are to promote, coordinate and organize sporting activities in Iceland, as well as to promote the development of sport, as well as public sport events. The ÍSÍ has organized many popular public annual sporting events such as marathons and cycle to work schemes.
The Hungarian Olympic Committee is the National Olympic Committee representing Hungary.
The Czech Olympic Committee is the National Olympic Committee (NOC) representing the Czech Republic.
Poland competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This was the nation's twentieth appearance at the Summer Olympics, having missed the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles because of the Soviet boycott. The Polish Olympic Committee sent a total of 218 athletes to the Games, 130 men and 88 women, to compete in 22 sports.
The 2017 World Games, commonly known as Wrocław 2017, was the tenth World Games, a major international multi-sport event, meant for sports, or disciplines or events within a sport, that were not contested in the Olympic Games, held from 20 to 30 July 2017 in Wrocław, Poland. The World Games were organized by the Wrocław Organizing Committee. Wrocław was selected as the host city in January 2012 in Lausanne, over Budapest, Hungary. It was the first time The World Games was organised in Poland.
Aleksandra Anna Socha Shelton is a Polish sabre fencer, bronze medal in the 2003 World Fencing Championships, European champion in 2004, and European team in 2008. She represented Poland at the time.
Poland competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Since the nation's official debut in 1924, Polish athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games except the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, because of the Soviet boycott.
The Finnish Shooting Sport Federation, FinnishSuomen Ampumaurheiluliitto (SAL), was founded in 1919 and is an umbrella organization for sport shooting in Finland, representing many international shooting sport organizations in Finland.
Poland competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the nation's official debut in 1924, Polish athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, with the exception of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, because of the Soviet boycott.
Polish Karate Federation is a Polish organization associating among others shōtōkan karate clubs. It belongs to the World Karate Federation committee.
Kamil Bortniczuk is a Polish politician, member of the VIII and IX Sejm as a member of the Agreement political party, within the Law and Justice parliamentary club as part of the United Right coalition. He represents the Opole constituency. In October 2021 he became the Polish Minister of Sport and Tourism.
Poland competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022.
