WKS Grunwald Poznań

The WKS Grunwald Poznań is a sports club founded in 1947 from the district of the same name in the Polish city ​​of Poznan . The abbreviation WKS stands for "Wojskowy Klub Sportowy", ie army sports club. The association maintains departments in the sports of orienteering , wrestling , handball , tennis , shooting , athletics and hockey .

hockey

European Cup balance men's field
year	competition	level	space	place
1991	Cup Winners Trophy	2	1	Espoo
1992	Cup Winners Cup	1	7th	Vught
1993	Club Champions Trophy	2	2	Havant
1994	Club Champions Trophy	2	2	Milan
1995	Club Champions Cup	1	5	Terrassa
1996	Club Champions Cup	1	4th	Mülheim
1997	Cup Winners Cup	1	3	Reading
1998	Club Champions Cup	1	5	Terrassa
1999	Club Champions Cup	1	4th	Terrassa
2000	Cup Winners Cup	1	5	Terrassa
2001	Club Champions Cup	1	5	Bloemendaal
2002	Club Champions Cup	1	5	Antwerp
2003	Club Champions Cup	1	4th	Brussels
2004	Club Champions Cup	1	7th	Barcelona
2006	Cup Winners Trophy	2	1	Vienna
2007	Cup Winners Cup	1	4th	Madrid
2008	Euro Hockey League	1	VR 24	Antwerp
2009	Euro Hockey League	1	AF	Hamburg
2010	Euro Hockey League	1	AF	Rotterdam
2011	Euro Hockey League	1	VR 24	Terrassa
2012	Euro Hockey League	1	VR 24	Mülheim
2013	Euro Hockey League	1	VR 24	Barcelona
2014	Euro Hockey League	1	AF	Eindhoven
2015	Euro Hockey League	1	VR 24	Barcelona
2016	Euro Hockey League	1	AF	Amstelveen
2017	Euro Hockey League	1	AF	Eindhoven
2018	Euro Hockey League	1	VR 24	Barcelona
2019	Euro Hockey League	1	VR 24	Barcelona

Even before the Second World War (as WKS Poznań), Grunwald won the Polish Cup three times. Seven years after the war, the club started playing hockey again. In 1975 the department moved to KS Pocztowiec Poznań , but was re-established a few years later. There are a total of 15 national titles in the field and nine titles in the hall. Since the 1990s, the all-in-blue club has also been taking part in European Cup competitions, with the team taking third place in the 1994 indoor national championship cup and 1997 field cup winners' cup . Around 100 players belong to the department.

successes

• Polish field hockey champions: 1955, 1966, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
  • as WKS Poznań: 1935, 1936, 1938
• Polish indoor champion: 1961, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1974, 1992, 1993, 2001, 2003, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018

• EuroHockey Cup Winners Trophy: 1991, 2006

Indoor national champion cup

• Third: 1994

Field Cup Winner's Cup

• Third: 1997

athletics

• Monika Drybulska (* 1980), marathon runner
• Grzegorz Gajdus (* 1967), trainer

Wrestling

The club has long been the center of freestyle in Poland. The coaching duo Marian Kobierski / Zygmunt Kret led a number of wrestlers to the national top class.

• Andrzej Radomski (* 1961), free style, medium, light and heavyweight, Vice European Champion 1990
• Władysław Stecyk (* 1951), free style, flyweight, Olympic silver medalist

Web links

• Web presence of the WKS Grunwald Poznań

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Compilation from EHF Handbook 2016 ( memento of the original from March 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '47 "  N , 16 ° 53' 0"  E