Poland
has been present in winter and summer Olympic Games since 1924. The Polish
national team has won 285 medals, paving the way for many Polish Olympians to
go down in the history of international sport. The brightest star of Polish
sport is Irena Szewińska, a track-and-field athlete and a sprinter, who won 7
medals – 3 gold (the 4x100m relay, the 200-meter and 400-meter sprint), 2
silver (in the 200m sprint and the long jump) and 2 bronze. Poles are also really
proud of Robert Korzeniowski, the greatest race walker ever. He won only 4 Olympic
medals, but they were all gold.
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| Irena Szewinska |
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| Robert Korzeniowski |
Polish
athletes celebrated their greatest successes during the summer Olympics. Many
of them have won more than one medal, and they were often gold, e.g. Otylia
Jędrzejczak (swimming), Tomasz Majewski (shot putting), Robert Sycz and Tomasz
Kucharski (rowing). In the winter Polish athletes performed with less success,
apart from two phenomenal ski jumpers Wojciech Fortuna (the gold medal in the
K90 ramp jump in 1972) and Adam Małysz (1 bronze and 3 gold medals), as well
as, a brilliant cross-country skier Justyna Kowalczyk (1 gold, 2 silver and 2
bronze medals).
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| Justyna Kowalczyk |
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Adam Malysz
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