KS Warszawianka
The Klub Sportowy Warszawianka is a Polish sports club from the capital Warsaw . The club was founded in 1921 by the middle-class families Luxemburg and Loth and initially had football as its main purpose. These days the main focus is on athletics, handball, fencing and tennis.
In the meantime, basketball, swimming, cycling and ice hockey were also practiced. The ice hockey team became Polish runners-up in 1939 . Track and field athletes Stanisława Walasiewicz and Janusz Kusociński won Olympic gold in Los Angeles in 1932 and the fencers also won several Olympic medals. The boxers made a European champion in 1937.
The football team became Warsaw City Champions in 1925 and was a founding member of the Polish National Football League in 1927 . At the end of the year Warszawianka was under the direction of the Austrian coach Richard Dombi thirteenth of the 14-member league and avoided relegation. With the exception of 1936, when Warszawianka was fifth, the club ended the seasons until the outbreak of World War II always in the lower half of the table.
In the course of the 1930s Warszawianka acquired a large piece of land - which is now occupied by KS Skra - on which a sports hall and numerous fields for football and hockey were set up next to the club house. In 1941 a stadium for 50,000 spectators was opened here.
After the Second World War, efforts to revive the club were unsuccessful. What was left was integrated into the new Start association . In February 1957, however, the association was finally re-established. A new stadium was opened in 1961 on a new site. In football, the club could no longer follow the old days, which led to the division of the department in 1971.
In 1992, the association received its current property of around 16 hectares on which Warszawianka has since built a modern infrastructure.
Besides the clubs Pogoń Lwów , which was located in the city of Lwów, which was annexed by the USSR after the Second World War , and Amica Wronki , who merged with Lech Posen in 2006 , Warszawianka is the only Polish football club that has never been formally relegated from the first division suffered.
Important athletes
- Stanisław Baran , participant in the 1938 World Cup
- Stanisława Walasiewicz , 100 m runner, Olympic gold 1932, silver 1936
- Janusz Kusociński , 10000 m runner, Olympic gold 1932
- Władysław Segda , fencer, Olympic bronze medal 1928, 1932
- Tadeusz Friedrich , fencer, Olympic silver 1928, bronze 1932
- Marian Suski , fencer, Olympic bronze medal 1932
- Aleksander Polus , boxing, European champion 1937
- Emil Ochyra , fencer, Olympic silver 1960, bronze 1964
Web links
- Klub Sportowy Warszawianka , official website of the club