Olympic history of Poland

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Poland , whose NOK , Polski Komitet Olimpijski was founded in 1918 andrecognizedby the IOC one year later in 1919, has been taking part in the Summer Olympics since 1924. Since 1924 athletes have also been sent to the winter games.

history

Poland has not yet hosted the summer or winter Olympics itself.

A total of 3699 athletes, 704 of them women, competed. Athletes from Poland have so far won 219 medals, 271 of them at summer and 20 at winter games. The most successful athlete is the track and field athlete Irena Szewińska , who won seven medals between 1964 and 1980, including three golds. The first medal winner was the rider Adam Królikiewicz , who won bronze once at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. The most successful sport is athletics in summer with 23 gold, 18 silver and 13 bronze medals and ski jumping in winter with three gold, three silver and one bronze medals. Poland achieved the best placement in the medal table in 1976 in Montreal with sixth place.

The youngest member of a team from Poland in 1980 was gymnast Anita Jokiel , who started at the age of 13. The marksman Józef Kiszkurno was the oldest participant in Polish Olympic history at the age of 57 in 1952.

Overview of the participants

Summer games

Medal table in summer games

year	Flag bearer	Attendees	Men	Women	sports
1924 Paris	Sławosz Szydłowski	65	64	1	10
1928 Amsterdam	Marian Cieniewski	93	82	11	11
1932 Los Angeles	Janusz Ślązak	51	42	9	4th
1936 Berlin	Klemens Biniakowski	144	127	17th	15th
1948 London	Mieczysław Łomowski	37	30th	7th	5
1952 Helsinki	Teodor Kocerka	125	103	22nd	11
1956 Melbourne	Tadeusz Ruth	64	49	15th	9
1960 Rome	Teodor Kocerka	185	156	29	17th
1964 Tokyo	Waldemar Baszanowski	140	115	25th	12
1968 Mexico City	Waldemar Baszanowski	177	140	37	16
1972 Munich	Waldemar Baszanowski	290	252	38	22nd
1976 Montreal	Grzegorz Śledziewski	207	180	27	18th
1980 Moscow	Czesław Kwieciński	306	232	74	21st
1988 Seoul	Bogdan Daras	143	111	32	19th
1992 Barcelona	Waldemar Legień	201	149	52	21st
1996 Atlanta	Rafał Szukała	165	126	39	20th
2000 Sydney	Andrzej Wroński	187	129	58	20th
2004 Athens	Bartosz Kizierowski	194	132	62	21st
2008 Beijing	Marek Twardowski	257	156	101	23
2012 London	Agnieszka Radwańska	210	124	86	24

Winter games

year	Flag bearer	Attendees	Men	Women	sports
1924 Chamonix	Kazimierz Smogorzewski	7th	7th		5
1928 St. Moritz	Andrzej Krzeptowski	24	24		5
1932 Lake Placid	Józef Stogowski	15th	15th		4th
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Bronislaw Czech	20th	20th		6th
1948 St. Moritz	Stanislaw Marusarz	29	29		5
1952 Oslo	Stanislaw Marusarz	30th	27	3	4th
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo	Tadeusz Kwapień	51	44	7th	6th
1960 Squaw Valley	Józef Karpiel	13	7th	6th	4th
1964 Innsbruck	Jerzy Wojnar	51	40	11	8th
1968 Grenoble	Stanisław Szczepaniak	31	23	8th	7th
1972 Sapporo	Andrzej Bachleda-Curuś	47	39	8th	8th
1976 Innsbruck	Wojciech Truchan	56	43	13	9
1980 Lake Placid	Józef Łuszczek	30th	29	1	5
1984 Lake Placid	Józef Łuszczek	30th	24	6th	6th
1988 Calgary	Henryk Gruth	32	28	4th	6th
1992 Albertville	Henryk Gruth	53	41	12	9
1994 Lillehammer	Tomasz Sikora	28	15th	13	8th
1998 Nagano	Jan Ziemianin	39	24	15th	10
2002 Salt Lake City	Mariusz Siudek	27	22nd	5	9
2006 Turin	Paulina Ligocka	45	29	16	11
2010 Vancouver	Konrad Niedźwiedzki	46	26th	20th	11
2014 Sochi	Dawid Kupczyk	58	55	23	11

Medals

→ See: List of Olympic medalists from Poland

Individual evidence

1. ^ Irena Szewińska-Kirszenstein in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Web links

• Poland in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Poland on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)