''Przegląd Sportowy'' (, ''Sports Review'') is the oldest and now the only

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sports daily, founded in 1921 in

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. In 1926 it initiated an annual, popular

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for the

Polish Sportspersonality of the Year The Polish Sports Personality of the Year (Polish: ''Plebiscyt Przeglądu Sportowego na najlepszego polskiego sportowca roku'') is chosen annually since 1926 by the readers of the newspaper ''Przegląd Sportowy'', which makes it the second oldest s ...

. Its current editor-in-chief is Paweł Wołosik.

History

The newspaper was founded in 1921 on the initiative of Kraków sports journalists Ignacy Rosenstock, J. Billig, Aleksander Dembiński, Józef Szkolnikowski, Leon Gleissner and Tadeusz Synowiec. Rosenstock was appointed the newspaper's first editor-in-chief. On 23 July 1921, it officially became affiliated with the

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. The newspaper's headquarters moved to

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in 1925. The circulation of the newspaper is of around 50,000 copies per day (sale is about 25,000). It also has a digital presence: the website and various social accounts offer online sport news in Polish. In March 2014, they announced a cooperation with the startup Betegy, providing data-based football predictions in their printed newspaper as well as online. The shareholder of the newspaper is Ringier Axel Springer Media AG,"

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"," ''Ringier Axel Springer Media AG on Wikipedia'' a joint venture between the German publishing company

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and

, the largest international operating media company in Switzerland. Notable journalists of ''Przegląd Sportowy'' have included Zygmunt Weiss, Karol Stopa, Stanisław Rothert, Tomasz Wołek and Roman Kołtoń.

List of editors-in-chief

*Ignacy Rosenstock (1921) * Ferdynand Goetel (1922–1926) *

Kazimierz Wierzyński Kazimierz Wierzyński (Drohobycz, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, 27 August 1894 – 13 February 1969, London) was a Polish poet and journalist; an elected member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature in the Second Polish Republic ...

(1926–1931) *Marian Strzelecki (1931–1939) *Tadeusz Maliszewski (1945–1950) *Edward Trojanowski (1950–1951) *Edward Strzelecki (1951–1969) *Andrzej Jucewicz (1970–1976) *Łukasz Jedlewski (1976–1990) *Maciej Polkowski (1990–1994), *Piotr Górski (1994–2003) *Roman Kołtoń (2004–2007) *Jacek Adamczyk (2007–2008) *Tomasz Kontek (2008) *Marcin Kalita (2008–2013) *Michał Pol (2013–2017) *Przemysław Rudzki (2017–2019) *Paweł Wołosik (2019–)

References

External links

Official website
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History

List of editors-in-chief

See also

References

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