Baildon Katowice

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Baildon Katowice
Logo of the association
Surname Sportowy Baildon Club Katowice
Club colors blue White
Founded 1920
Place of foundation Katowice
resolution 2001
Venue Hala
Association headquarters ul.Chorzowska
Katowice

The Club Sportowy Baildon Katowice (short Baildon Katowice ) was a Polish sports club from Katowice . The club was founded in 1920 as a company sports club of the Baildonhütte in Katowice. After the insolvency of the steel works in 2001, the sports club was also dissolved.

Between 1950 and 1956, after the merger with KS Pogon Katowice, the club was named KS Stal Katowice .

Departments

The Hala Baildon , home of the club demolished in 2003

With up to 16 departments, Baildon Katowice was at times the second largest sports club in Poland after Legia Warsaw . The most important departments (sections) were:

ice Hockey

The ice hockey department was founded in 1945 and played in the top division of Poland for many years . In 1982 the ice hockey department was dissolved.

successes
  • Polish runner-up: 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976
  • 3rd place Polish championship: 1970, 1973, 1977

fencing

  • Polish Champion 1950 - Wanda Anna Skupień (KS Stal Katowice)
  • Polish Champion 1950 - Jan Nawrocki (KS Stal Katowice)
  • Polish Champion 1951 - Jerzy Twardokens (KS Stal Katowice)
  • Polish champion 1952 - Wojciech Rydz (KS Stal Katowice)
  • Polish Champion 1952 - Wanda Anna Włodarczyk (KS Stal Katowice)
  • Polish Champion 1953 - Anna Wlodarczyk (KS Stal Katowice)
  • Polish champion 1954 - Anna Wlodarczyk (KS Stal Katowice)
  • Polish champion 1955 - Wojciech Rydz (KS Stal Katowice)
  • Polish champion 1955 - Wojciech Rydz (KS Stal Katowice)
  • Polish champion 1956 - Wojciech Rydz (KS Stal Katowice)
  • Polish champion 1957 - Wojciech Rydz
  • Polish champion 1978 - Krystyna Urbańska
  • Polish champion (saber) 1990 - Leszek Gajda

Soccer

The greatest success of the footballers was reaching the semi-finals of the Polish Football Cup in the 1967/68 season.

Other departments

  • Boxing
  • karate
  • gymnastics
  • Netball
  • athletics
  • volleyball
  • Weightlifting
  • Table tennis (Polish champion in the team 1992 and 1996)
  • Wrestling
  • Swimming (16 Polish championship titles - 7 in swimming, 9 in diving)

Individual evidence

  1. Hala Baildon. In: pingpong.pl. Retrieved November 30, 2015 .
  2. ^ Baildon Katowice. In: hockeyarenas.net. Retrieved November 30, 2015 .
  3. ^ Baildon Katowice. 1 liga polska (1964-65 - 1981-82). (No longer available online.) In: wh.5-games.ru. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; accessed on November 30, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wh.5-games.ru
  4. ^ Poland - Full Cup History. In: rsssf.com. Retrieved November 30, 2015 .