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ROW Rybnik (multi-sports Club)
ROW Rybnik was a multi-sports club from Rybnik, Upper Silesia, Poland, founded in 1964. ROW stands for ''Rybnicki Okręg Węglowy'' which means ''The Rybnik Coal District''. It catered for 13 different disciplines upon its establishment. Although no longer one club, several sections have remained active independently, using the "ROW" name. The most popular are the motorcycle speedway and football sections. Current sections The original club folded in 1994 but sections of the club have survived or have been created as spiritual successors of the original club are: * ŻKS ROW Rybnik, one of the oldest and most accomplished teams in Polish speedway. ROW won the Team Speedway Polish Championship 12 times, the last time in 1972. * KS ROW 1964 Rybnik, men's football section, reestablished in 2003 on the basis of RKS Energetyk Rybnik (founded in 1981) but traces its roots back to the original ROW Rybnik's football section founded in 1964. * TS ROW Rybnik, women's football secti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multi-sports Club
A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports. Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and may play other similar clubs on occasion, watched mostly by family and friends, to large commercial organisations with professional players which have teams that regularly compete against those of other clubs and attract sometimes very large crowds of paying spectators. Clubs may be dedicated to a single sport or to several (multi-sport clubs). The term ''athletics club'' is sometimes used for a general sports club, rather than one dedicated to athletics proper. Organization Larger sports clubs are characterized by having professional and amateur departments in various sports such as bike polo, football, basketball, futsal, cricket, volleyball, handball, rink hockey, bowling, water polo, rugby, track and field athletics, boxing, baseb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics (sport)
Athletics is a group of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and racewalking. The results of racing events are decided by finishing position (or time, where measured), while the jumps and throws are won by the athlete that achieves the highest or furthest measurement from a series of attempts. The simplicity of the competitions, and the lack of a need for expensive equipment, makes athletics one of the most common types of sports in the world. Athletics is mostly an individual sport, with the exception of relay races and competitions which combine athletes' performances for a team score, such as cross country. Organized athletics are traced back to the Ancient Olympic Games from 776 BC. The rules and format of the modern events in athletics were defined in Western Europe and North America in the 19th and early 20th century, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multi-sport Clubs In Poland
A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event, often held over multiple days, featuring competition in many different sports among organized teams of athletes from (mostly) nation-states. The first major, modern, multi-sport event of international significance was the Olympic Games, first held in modern times in 1896 in Athens, Greece and inspired by the Ancient Olympic Games, one of a number of such events held in antiquity. Most modern multi-sports events have the same basic structure. Games are held over the course of several days in and around a "host city", which changes for each competition. Countries send national teams to each competition, consisting of individual athletes and teams that compete in a wide variety of sports. Athletes or teams are awarded gold, silver or bronze medals for first, second and third place respectively. Each game is generally held every four years, though some are annual competitions. History The Ancient Olympic Games, first held in 776 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Teams In Poland
Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators. Sports can, through casual or organized participation, improve participants' physical health. Hundreds of sports exist, from those between single contestants, through to those with hundreds of simultaneous participants, either in teams or competing as individuals. In certain sports such as racing, many contestants may compete, simultaneously or consecutively, with one winner; in others, the contest (a ''match'') is between two sides, each attempting to exceed the other. Some sports allow a "tie" or "draw", in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure one winner and one loser. A number of contests may be arranged in a tournament producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chwałowice, Rybnik
Chwałowice (german: Chwallowitz) is a district of Rybnik, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. On December 31, 2013 it had 7,700 inhabitants. History The village was first mentioned in 1228 as ''Falevich'', and later in the Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis (ca. 1305) as ''Quelowicz''. After World War I in the Upper Silesia plebiscite 986 out of 1,593 voters in Chwałowice voted in favour of joining Poland, against 607 opting for staying in Germany. In 1922 it became a part of Silesian Voivodeship, Second Polish Republic. They were then annexed by Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II. After the war it was restored to Poland. In years 1945-1954 it was a seat of a gmina. On November 13, 1954 it gained the status of urban-type settlement. and on August 18, 1962 of a town. On May 27, 1975 it was amalgamated with Rybnik. Gallery Chwalowice I II VIII.jpg, Coal mine File:Rybnik,_Chwałowice,_ulica_1_Maja_tyły_03.jpg, Familok Familok is a type of hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silesian Uprisings
The Silesian Uprisings (german: Aufstände in Oberschlesien, Polenaufstände, links=no; pl, Powstania śląskie, links=no) were a series of three uprisings from August 1919 to July 1921 in Upper Silesia, which was part of the Weimar Republic at the time. Ethnic Polish and Polish-Silesian insurrectionists, seeking to have the area transferred to the newly founded Polish Republic, fought German police and paramilitary forces which sought to keep the area part of the new German state founded after World War I. Following the conflict, the area was divided between the two countries. The rebellions have subsequently been commemorated in modern Poland as an example of Polish nationalism. Background Much of Silesia had belonged to the Crown of Polish Kingdom in medieval times, but it passed to the Kings of Bohemia in the 14th century and, following this, to the Austrian Habsburgs. Frederick the Great of Prussia seized Silesia from Maria Theresa of Austria in 1742 in the War of Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basket ROW Rybnik
Basket ROW Rybnik is a Polish women's basketball team from Rybnik, Upper Silesia currently playing in the PLKK, the top division. It is related to the ROW Rybnik multi-sports club founded in 1964, however after a long period of inactivity basketball in Rybnik only returned in 1997 without the "ROW" name. History ROW Rybnik was founded in 1964 as a multi-sports club as a result of a merger between ''RKS "Górnik" Chwałowice'' and ''KS "Górnik" Rybnik ''. In 1997 Koszykarski Klub Sportowy Partners Rybnik gained promotion to the PLKK Basket Liga Kobiet (BLK), currently known for sponsorship reasons as Energa Basket Liga Kobiet (EBLK; 2001–2013 Polska Liga Koszykówki Kobiet, PLKK) is a professional women's club basketball league in Poland. It constitutes the first and highes .... After the next three years in the top division as KKS ColorCap Rybnik, the club folded due to the sponsor pulling out. In 2006 Rybnik's basketball players returned to the courts once again, now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Basketball
Women's basketball is the team sport of basketball played by women. It began being played in 1892, one year after men's basketball, at Smith College in Massachusetts. It spread across the United States, in large part via women's college competitions, and has since spread globally. As of 2020, basketball is one of the most popular and fastest growing sports in the world. There are multiple professional leagues and tournaments for professional women basketball players. The main North American league is the WNBA. The FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup and Women's Olympic Basketball Tournament feature top national teams from continental championships. In the US, the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship is also popular. The strongest European women's basketball clubs participate in the EuroLeague Women. Early women's basketball Women's basketball began in the fall of 1892 at Smith College. Senda Berenson, recently hired as a young "physical culture" director at Sm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerzy Makula
Jerzy Makula (born 29 September 1952 in Ruda Śląska) is a Polish pilot who won the FAI World Glider Aerobatic Championships seven times.FAI Glider Aerobatic Championships Famous pilots of PLL LOT /ref> Career He was World Glider Aerobatic Champion in 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993,1999 and 2011. In 1995, 2001, 2003 and 2005 he was World Vice-Cha ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Air Sports
The term "air sports" covers a range of aerial activities, including air racing, aerobatics, aeromodelling, hang gliding, human-powered aircraft, parachuting, paragliding and skydiving. Recognized and regulated air sports Many air sports are regulated internationally by the Switzerland-based Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) and nationally by aero clubs such as the National Aeronautics Association (NAA) and the Royal Aero Club (RAeC). The FAI has separate commissions for each air sport. For example, the commission for ballooning is the Commission Internationale de l'Aérostation (CIA). Sports within the categories of air sports and their respective commissions are as follows: Motorized * Aerobatics (CIVA) * Aeromodelling (CIAM) * Air racing (GAC) * Drone racing (CIAM) * Flyboarding * Powered hang gliding (CIMA) * Powered paragliding (CIMA) * Rally flying (GAC) * Rotorcraft (CIG) * Ultralight aviation (CIMA) Wind/Gliding * Ballooning (CIA) ** Clust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rybnik
Rybnik (Polish pronunciation: ; szl, Rybńik) is a city in southern Poland, in the Silesian Voivodeship, around 38 km (24 mi) southwest of Katowice, the region's capital, and around 19 km (11 miles) from the Czech border. It is one of the major cities of the Upper Silesian metropolitan area with a population of 5.3 million and the main city of the so-called '' Subregion Zachodni'', previously also known as the Rybnik Coal Area. With a population of 135,994 as of January 1, 2022, it is the 25th most-populous city in Poland. Rybnik is the center of commerce, business, transportation and culture for the southwestern part of the Silesian Voivodeship, a consolidated city-county and the seat of a separate suburban Rybnik county. Rybnik is particularly recognized for its contributions to music, with the Szafrankowie School of Music musicians such as Henryk Górecki or Lidia Grychtołówna, among others. It is also a seat of the Rybnik Philharmonic Orchestra. The name Ry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
