Bartosz Kurek

Bartosz Kurek
at a press conference in May 2010
portrait
Date of birth	August 29, 1988
place of birth	Wałbrzych, Poland
size	2.05 m
position	Universal
societies
2004–2005 2005–2008 2008–2012 2012–2013 since 2013	AZS PWSZ Nysa Zaksa Kędzierzyn-Koźle Skra Bełchatów VK Dynamo Moscow Lube Banca Macerata
National team
since 2007	A national team
successes
2009 2009 2009 2010 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2012 2012 2012	polish champion polish cup winners european champion polish champions polish champions polish cup winners EM-third world league-third world cup finalist polish runner-up Polish cup winners finalist Champions League
Status: October 23, 2013

Bartosz Kurek (born August 29, 1988 in Wałbrzych ) is a Polish volleyball player .

Kurek on the attack, May 2010

Career

Kurek is the son of the Polish national volleyball player Adam Kurek . He started his career in 2004 at AZS PWSZ Nysa . After one season he moved to Zaksa Kędzierzyn-Koźle . In 2007 the universal player made his first appearance in the Polish national team . A year later he went to league rivals Skra Bełchatów . Critics feared he would only be a substitute there, but the club won the national championship and cup double with Kurek in their first season. Then Kurek took part in the European Championship in Turkey , where Poland won the title for the first time. In September 2009, like his teammates, he was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta . With Bełchatów Kurek successfully defended the title in the Polish league in 2010 and 2011; also won the cup again in 2011. In 2011 he also celebrated further successes with the Polish selection. At the European Championships in Austria and the Czech Republic , Poland achieved third place as well as in the World League , in which Kurek won the ranking of the best scorers. The team finished second in the World Cup . In 2012, Kurek won the national cup competition with Bełchatów for the third time. In the Champions League, as the host of the Final Four, the club was only defeated in the tie-break of the final against VK Zenit-Kazan . In 2012/13 he played for the Russian club VK Dynamo Moscow . Kurek has been playing for Lube Banca Macerata in Italy since 2013 .

Web links

• Highlights (movie)
• Profile at Skra Bełchatów (Polish)
• Profile at FIVB (English)
• Profile at the FIVB Heroes ( Memento from October 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Profile at Skra Bełchatów ( Memento from May 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 14 września 2009 r. o nadaniu orderów. Internetowy System Aktów Prawnych, accessed June 22, 2012 (Polish). 
3. ↑ Kurek odszedł do Dynama. Skra Bełchatów, May 6, 2012, accessed June 22, 2012 (Polish). 
4. ↑ Bartosz Kurek ( Memento from May 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )