Wybrzeże Gdańsk was a Polish multi-sports club based in

Gdańsk Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, Data for territorial unit 2261000. it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. Gdań ...

, established in 1945, most known for its

motorcycle speedway Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that ...

and

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

teams. Club has closed in 2005, due to financial problems. Before 2006 speedway season was established new club - Wybrzeże Gdańsk. In handball, new club take part in league matches first time in 2010. The club's colours was red, white, blue.

Speedway

History

1948 to 1999

The club competed in the inaugural 1948 Polish speedway season, under the name of GKM Gdańsk. The following year the name changed to Związkowiec Gdańsk and competed until 1950. Speedway returned to Gdańsk in

1957 Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricke ...

under the name of LPŻ Gdańsk (1957–1959) and Legia Gdańsk from 1960. Legia won a silver medal in the

Team Speedway Polish Championship The Team Speedway Polish Championship ( Polish: ''Drużynowe Mistrzostwa Polski, DMP'') is an annual speedway event held each year in different Polish clubs organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM) since 1948. In 2000, the First Division was r ...

in 1960 and their star rider Marian Kaiser also became the Polish champion after winning the Polish Individual Speedway Championship in 1960. Kaiser went on to win the Golden Helmet in

1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...

, when the club referred to itself as Wybrzeże Gdańsk. The 1960s remained a positive era for the club and they won the bronze medal in

1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lynd ...

and the silver medal in

1967 Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 6 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and Army of ...

headed by riders such as Kaiser, Zbigniew Podlecki and Henryk Żyto. The 1970s saw little team success but Zenon Plech was the Golden Helmet winner in

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...

and Polish champion in

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...

. The 1980s proved to be another quiet period, with the only significant honours being a team silver medal in

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a n ...

and the Polish Pairs Speedway Championship (Zenon Plech and Grzegorz Dzikowski) in the same season. However, Zenon Plech won two more Polish titles in

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...

and

. The 1990s continued in the same manner with little success except winning the second division in

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

and winning a bronze medal in

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

after signing Tony Rickardsson and Sebastian Ułamek.

2000 to present

Gdansk were inaugural members of the Ekstraliga in 2000, but they suffered relegation to the 1. Liga that season, this was despite a bronze medal win the previous season. They bounced back by winning 1.Liga in

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

. In 2005 club has closed. From 2006 to now, in polish team championship is riding new club - Wybrzeże Gdańsk. It continues tradition and history of previous club. Handball section was closed in 2002. New club was established in 2010 - Wybrzeże Gdańsk (handball).

Notable riders

Honours

Handball

Other sections

The club had many sections over the years, out of which only the

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and

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sections exist to this day as separately run entities. Athletics The athletics team competed between 1945-1971. The club's achievements were: * 22 Senior Polish Championship Titles * European Championships Vice-Champion:

Władysław Nikiciuk Wladyslaw Nikiciuk (born 9 March 1940) is a Polish Olympic Games, Olympic javelin thrower. He represented his country in the Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's javelin throw, men's javelin throw at the 1968 Summer Olympics, as well a ...

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, 1966 European Athletics Championships * European Championships Bronze Medal: Władysław Komar -

shot put The shot put is a track-and-field event involving "putting" (throwing) a heavy spherical Ball (sports), ball—the ''shot''—as far as possible. For men, the sport has been a part of the Olympic Games, modern Olympics since their 1896 Summer Olym ...

, 1966 European Athletics Championships Basketball There was a men's section which existed between 1949-1995. The club made a brief re-appearance 2007-2009 before it folded once more. The club's honours include: * 4x Polish Champions: 1971, 1972, 1973, 1978 * 3x

Polish Cup The Polish Cup in Association football, football ( ) is an annual Single-elimination tournament, knockout football competition for Polish football club (association football), football clubs, held continuously since 1950, and is the second most i ...

Winners: 1976, 1978, 1979 * 3 Individual European Championship medals ** Zbigniew Dregier ***Silver: Wrocław 1963 ***Bronze: Moscow 1965, Helsinki 1967 Boxing The section existed between 1945-1990. Their honours included: * 21 Individual Polish Senior Championship titles *3 Olympic Medals **Silver: Aleksy Antkiewicz, Helsinki 1952 **Bronze: Aleksy Antkiewicz, London 1948 **Bronze: Hubert Skrzypczak, Mexico City 1968 * European Championships ** 3 titles (Gold Medals) *** Zenon Stefaniuk, 1953 & 1955 *** Hubert Skrzypczak, 1968 ** 3 Runners-up titles (Silver Medals) *** Bogdan Węgrzyniak, 1953 *** Henryk Dampc, 1959 *** Hubert Skrzypczak, 1965 ** 1 Bronze Medal *** Aleksy Antkiewicz (1953) Gymnastics The section only existed for 4 years between 1952-1956. Lidia Szczerbińska won a

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at the

1956 Summer Olympics The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XVI Olympiad and officially branded as Melbourne 1956, were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December ...

in Melbourne whilst representing the club. Judo The section existed in 1958–2002, and as a separate entity since 2004. Club honours of the section are: * 45 Individual Polish Championship Titles * 11 Team Polish Championship titles * 2 Olympic Medals **Silver: Janusz Pawłowski, Seoul 1988 **Bronze: Janusz Pawłowski, Moscow 1980 * 4 World Judo Championship Bronze Medals **Antoni Reiter: 1973 ** Janusz Pawłowski: 1979, 1983, 1987 * 10 European Championship Medals **1 Gold Medal ***Antoni Reiter: 1975 **1 Silver Medal ***Antoni Reiter: 1974 **8 Bronze Medals ***Antoni Reiter: 1976 ***Jan Okrój: 1963 ***Kazimierz Jaremczak: 1965 ***Czesław Kur: 1968, 1969 *** Janusz Pawłowski: 1982, 1983, 1986 Other sections There were five other sections of the club, but they were short-lived and without any major sporting success. *

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(1945–1961, 2015–2020) *

Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

(1945–1969) *

Cycling Cycling, also known as bicycling or biking, is the activity of riding a bicycle or other types of pedal-driven human-powered vehicles such as balance bikes, unicycles, tricycles, and quadricycles. Cycling is practised around the world fo ...

(1945–1955) *

Motorcycle club A motorcycle club is a group of individuals whose primary interest and activities involve motorcycles. A motorcycle group can range as clubbed groups of different bikes or bikers who own same model of vehicle like the Harley Owners Group. There ...

(1948–1955) *

Wrestling Wrestling is a martial art, combat sport, and form of entertainment that involves grappling with an opponent and striving to obtain a position of advantage through different throws or techniques, within a given ruleset. Wrestling involves di ...

(1951–1955)

References

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