The Polish Indoor Athletics Championships ( pl, Halowe mistrzostwa Polski seniorów w lekkoatletyce) is an annual

indoor track and field Track and field is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of ...

competition organised by the

Polish Athletic Association The Polish Athletic Association ( pl, Polski Związek Lekkiej Atletyki – PZLA) is the governing body for the sport of athletics in Poland. Current president is Henryk Olszewski. History PZLA was founded in 1919 and was affiliated to the IAA ...

, which serves as the

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for the sport in

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.Polish Indoor Championships
GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-07-14. Typically held over two to three days in February during the Dutch winter, it was first added to the national calendar in 1933, supplementing the main outdoor

Polish Athletics Championships The Polish Athletics Championships ( pl, Mistrzostwa Polski seniorów w lekkoatletyce) is an annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Polish Athletic Association (PZLA), which serves as the Polish national championship for the sp ...

held in the summer since 1920.Polish Championships
GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-07-14. The national indoor competition was held from 1933 to 1956 (with a break during

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from 1939 to 1945). After a near twenty-year gap, the championships was restored to its annual fixture in 1973.

Events

The following

athletics events The sport of athletics is defined by the many events which make up its competition programmes. All events within the sport are forms of running, walking, jumping or throwing. These events are divided into the sub-sports of track and field, road ru ...

feature as standard on the Polish Indoor Championships programme: *

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: 60 m, 200 m, 400 m * Distance track events: 800 m, 1500 m, 3000 m *

Hurdles Hurdling is the act of jumping over an obstacle at a high speed or in a sprint. In the early 19th century, hurdlers ran at and jumped over each hurdle (sometimes known as 'burgles'), landing on both feet and checking their forward motion. Today, ...

: 60 m hurdles *

Jumps Jumping or leaping is a form of locomotion or movement in which an organism or non-living (e.g., robotic) mechanical system propels itself through the air along a ballistic trajectory. Jumping can be distinguished from running, galloping and o ...

: long jump, triple jump, high jump, pole vault *

Throws Throwing is an action which consists in accelerating a projectile and then releasing it so that it follows a ballistic trajectory, usually with the aim of impacting a remote target. This action is best characterized for animals with prehensile l ...

: shot put *

Combined events Combined track and field events are competitions in which athletes participate in a number of track and field events, earning points for their performance in each event, which adds to a total points score. Outdoors, the most common combined events ...

: heptathlon (men), pentathlon (women) *

Racewalking Racewalking, or race walking, is a long-distance discipline within the sport of athletics. Although a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times. Referee, Race judges careful ...

: 5000 m walk (men), 3000 m walk (women) The

200 metres The 200 metres, or 200-meter dash, is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 metre racetrack, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques is needed to successfully run the race. A slightl ...

was introduced in 1982. Combined events were added in 1974 – for men this was first held as a sextathlon, then as a heptathlon thereafter. The heptathlon was replaced by an

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between 1987 and 1989. A men's walk race over 10,000 m was held from 1981 to 1986, before being reduced to the standard 5000 m distance. Similarly, women competed in the 5000 m walk from 1983 to 1986 until being replaced by the standard 3000 m distance. The women's

3000 metres The 3000 metres or 3000-metre run is a track running event, also commonly known as the "3K" or "3K run", where 7.5 laps are run around an outdoor 400 m track, or 15 laps around a 200 m indoor track. It is debated whether the 3000m shoul ...

run became an annual fixture in 2000. The addition of women's

triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

(1991) and

pole vault Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the Myc ...

(1998) brought parity in the number of events for the sexes.

Editions

Championships records

Men

Women

References

;Editions *''Lekkoatleta'' nr 2 (69), March 2004, p. 25

External links

Polish Athletics Federation official website
{{National championships in athletics Athletics competitions in Poland National indoor athletics competitions Recurring sporting events established in 1933 1933 establishments in Poland February sporting events