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Tomasz is a Polish given name, the equivalent of Thomas in English.

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Poland's sports include almost all sporting disciplines, in particular: football, volleyball, motorcycle speedway, ski jumping, track and field, handball, basketball, tennis, and combat sport. The first Polish Formula One driver, Robert Kubica, has brought awareness of Formula One Racing to Poland. Volleyball is one of the country's most popular sports, with a rich history of international competition. Poland has made a distinctive mark in motorcycle speedway racing thanks to Tomasz Gollob, Jaroslaw Hampel, Bartosz Zmarzlik, Maciej Janowski and Rune Holta. Speedway is very popular in Poland. They won the world cup (2014), and the Polish Extraleague has the highest average attendances for any sport in Poland. The Polish mountains are an ideal venue for hiking, skiing and mountain biking and attract millions of tourists every year from all over the world. Cross country skiing and ski jumping are popular TV sports, gathering 4–5 million viewers each competition, with Justyna Kowalczyk, Dawid Kubacki, Adam Małysz and Kamil Stoch as the main attractions. Baltic beaches and resorts are popular locations for fishing, canoeing, kayaking and a broad-range of other water-themed sports.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jarosław Hampel</span> Polish speedway rider

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tomasz Gollob</span> Polish speedway rider

Tomasz Robert Gollob is a former Polish motorcycle speedway rider. He appeared in every Speedway Grand Prix series between its inaugural season in 1995 and 2013. His brother Jacek is also a speedway rider.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Falubaz Zielona Góra</span> Polish motorcycle speedway team

Falubaz Zielona Góra is a Polish motorcycle speedway team based in Zielona Góra who currently races in 1. Liga. It is one of the most successful teams in Poland, winning seven Team Speedway Polish Championships. It is commonly known as Falubaz due to one of its former names.

Polonia Bydgoszcz is a Polish sports club based in Bydgoszcz most known for its speedway team ŻKS Polonia Bydgoszcz which currently races in the 1. Liga. The club has won the Polish Speedway League Championship seven times, the latest in 2002, and European Team Championship three times, the latest in 2001. The club also has a football team that plays in the lower leagues, though it was more successful in the past and played in the Polish top division, plus several other departments: athletics, cycling and boccia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ryan Sullivan</span> Australian speedway rider

Ryan Geoffrey Sullivan is a former Australian international motorcycle speedway rider who has won the Australian Solo Championship, Australian Under-21 Speedway Championship, and Under-16 championships during his career. Sullivan achieved a career best third in the 2002 Speedway Grand Prix, winning two of the ten Grand Prix run during the year.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Speedway in Poland</span> Overview of the motorcycle sport in Poland

Speedway is one of the most popular sports in Poland. The Ekstraliga has the highest average attendances for any sport in Poland. The first meetings in Poland were held in the 1930s.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Grzegorz Walasek</span> Polish speedway rider

Grzegorz Walasek is a Polish motorcycle speedway rider who has ridden for the Polish national team and has also competed in the Speedway Grand Prix series.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tomasz Chrzanowski</span> Polish speedway rider

Tomasz Chrzanowski is a former motorcycle speedway rider from Poland.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tomasz Jędrzejak</span> Polish speedway rider

Tomasz Jędrzejak was a Polish motorcycle speedway rider, who was a member of the Poland national speedway team.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">WTS Sparta Wrocław</span> Polish motorcycle speedway team

WTS Sparta Wrocław, also known as Betard Sparta Wrocław for sponsorship reasons, are a motorcycle speedway team based in Wrocław, Poland. They were established in 1950. The team's home track is at the Olympic Stadium, which has a capacity of 13,000 people. The team currently competes in the Ekstraliga and have won the Team Speedway Polish Championship five times.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tomasz Bajerski</span> Polish speedway rider

Tomasz Bajerski is a former motorcycle speedway rider from Poland.

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Łukasz or Lukasz is a Polish masculine given name, derived from Greek Λουκᾶς, Lukas.

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Vyacheslav, also transliterated Viacheslav or Viatcheslav, is a Russian and Ukrainian masculine given name. It is the equivalent of Belarusian Вячаслаў/Вацлаў, Croatian Vjenceslav, Czech Václav, Polish Wacław and Wieńczysław, Romanian of Moldova Veaceslav which is Latinised as Wenceslaus.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bartosz Zmarzlik</span> Polish speedway rider (born 1995)

Bartosz Zmarzlik is a Polish motorcycle speedway rider, a four-time World Champion, three-time World Team Champion, World Junior Champion (2015) and European Junior Champion (2012). He is the third Polish rider in history, after Jerzy Szczakiel and Tomasz Gollob, to win an individual World Championship title.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Poland at the 2016 Summer Olympics</span> Sporting event delegation

Poland competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Since the nation's official debut in 1924, Polish athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games except the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, because of the Soviet boycott.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wybrzeże Gdańsk</span> Polish motorcycle speedway team

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Tomasz Fornal is a Polish professional volleyball player who plays as an outside hitter for Jastrzębski Węgiel and the Poland national team. Fornal won a silver medal at the 2022 World Championship and the 2021 Polish Champion title with Jastrzębski Węgiel.

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