Robert Skibniewski (born 19 July 1983) is a Polish professional
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
player for
GTK Gliwice
Gliwickie Towarzystwo Koszykówki Gliwice, shortly GTK Gliwice, is a professional basketball club based in Gliwice, Poland. The team currently plays in the first level Polish Basketball League.
History
The club was founded in 1998 and initially f ...
of the
Polish League. He is a 182 cm (6 ft 0 in) tall
point guard.
Professional career
Skibniewski was the
Polish Cup
The Polish Cup in football ( pl, Puchar Polski w piłce nożnej ) is an elimination tournament for Polish football clubs, held continuously from 1950, and is the second most important national title in Polish football after the Ekstraklasa title. ...
MVP, in 2011.
National team career
Skibniewski played with the senior
Polish national team at the
2007 EuroBasket
The 2007 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 2007, was the 35th FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship held by FIBA Europe, which also served as Europe qualifier for the 2008 Summer Olympics, giving a berth to th ...
, the
2009 EuroBasket, and the
2011 EuroBasket
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. He also made the squad for the
2015 EuroBasket
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, replacing
Dardan Berisha.
References
External links
PLK profile
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1983 births
Living people
AZS Koszalin players
KK Włocławek players
People from Bielawa
Point guards
Polish men's basketball players
Polish expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic
Śląsk Wrocław basketball players
Turów Zgorzelec players
SKS Starogard Gdański players
Wilki Morskie Szczecin players
GTK Gliwice players
Polish expatriate sportspeople in Slovakia
KK Świecie players
BK Inter Bratislava players
Polish expatriate basketball people
Expatriate basketball people in the Czech Republic
Expatriate basketball people in Slovakia
Sportspeople from Lower Silesian Voivodeship