Wybrzeże Gdańsk (''Gdańsk Coast Club'') is a Polish

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 ...

established in 1945, most known for the

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 anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that use only ...

team who race in the 1. Liga.

Speedway

2022 squad

* Rasmus Jensen *

Wiktor Trofimov Wiktor may refer to: *Andrzej Wiktor (1931–2018), Polish malacologist *Wiktor Andersson (1887–1966), Swedish film actor *Wiktor Balcarek (1915–1998), Polish chess player * Wiktor Biegański (1892–1974), Polish actor, film director and scree ...

* Piotr Gryszpinski *

Jakub Jamróg Jakub Jamróg (born 24 June 1991) is Polish speedway rider. Craeer Born in Tarnów, he began his career with local team Unia Tarnów who he rode for between 2009 and 2012, before signing for Orzeł Łódź in 2013. In 2015, he won the Argent ...

Timo Lahti Timo Lahti (born 16 July 1992) is a speedway rider from Finland. Career Lahti started his British career riding for the Eastbourne Eagles in 2011. He became the national champion of Finland after winning the Finnish Individual Speedway Champion ...

* Kamil Marciniec * Karol Zupinski * Milosz Wysocki * Adrian Gala

Honours

Other Sections

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

speedway Speedway may refer to: Racing Race tracks *Edmonton International Speedway, also known as Speedway Park, a former motor raceway in Edmonton, Alberta *Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a motor raceway in Speedway, Indiana Types of races and race cours ...

team survived throughout the club's history. The men's

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic 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 throwing it into the g ...

team has been revived in 2010.

Athletics

The athletics team competed between 1945-1971. The club's achievements were: * 22 Senior Polish Championship Titles * European Championships Vice-Champion: Władysław Nikiciuk -

javelin A javelin is a light spear designed primarily to be thrown, historically as a ranged weapon, but today predominantly for sport. The javelin is almost always thrown by hand, unlike the sling, bow, and crossbow, which launch projectiles with th ...

, 1966 European Athletics Championships * European Championships Bronze Medal:

Władysław Komar Władysław Stefan Komar (11 April 1940 – 17 August 1998) was a Polish shot putter, actor and cabaretist. Competing in three Summer Olympics between 1964 and 1972, he won the gold medal at the Munich Games in 1972 with a throw of 21.18 metre ...

shot put The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" (throwing) a heavy spherical ball—the ''shot''—as far as possible. The shot put competition for men has been a part of the modern Olympics since their revival in 1896, and women's ...

, 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 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. ...

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 Hubert Zenon Skrzypczak (born 29 September 1943 in Wejherowo) is a boxer from Poland. He competed for Poland in the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City, Mexico Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the Unit ...

Mexico City 1968 The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 ( es, México 1968), were an international multi-sport eve ...

* European Championships ** 3 titles (Gold Medals) ***

Zenon Stefaniuk Zenon Stefaniuk (8 July 1930, in Wojnów – 10 July 1985, in Katowice) was a Polish boxer. He twice won the gold medal at the European Amateur Boxing Championships in the Bantamweight division at Warsaw 1953 and West Berlin 1955. He par ...

, 1953 & 1955 ***

, 1968 ** 3 Runners-up titles (Silver Medals) *** Bogdan Węgrzyniak, 1953 ***

Henryk Dampc Henryk Dampc (12 April 1935 – 24 March 2004) was a Polish amateur boxer who won a silver medal in the light middleweight division at the 1959 European Championships. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics, but lost in the third bout to Willia ...

, 1959 ***

, 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

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in Melbourne whilst representing the club.

Judo

The section existed between 1958-2002. Club honours of the section are: * 45 Individual Polish Championship Titles * 11 Team Polish Championship titles * 2 Olympic Medals **Silver:

Janusz Pawłowski Janusz Pawłowski (born 20 July 1959 in Sopot) is a retired male judoka from Poland. He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics, and won the bronze medal in the Men's Half-Lightweight (– 65 kg) division. He also competed at the 1988 Sum ...

Seoul 1988 The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

**Bronze:

Moscow 1980 The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...

* 4

World Judo Championship The World Judo Championships are the highest level of international judo competition, along with the Olympic judo competition. The championships are held once every year (except the years when the Olympics take place) by the International Judo ...

Bronze Medals **Antoni Reiter: 1973 **

: 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 ***

: 1982, 1983, 1986

Other sections

There were five other sections of the club, but they were short-lived and without any major sporting success. *

Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

(1945-1961) *

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, when on a two-wheeled bicycle, called bicycling or biking, is the use of cycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. People engaged in cycling are referred to as "cyclists", "bicyclists", or "bikers". Apart from two ...

(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. Ther ...

(1948-1955) *

Wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...

(1951-1955)

References

External links

LotosGdansk.pl - Official website (in Polish)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wybrzeże Gdańsk Polish speedway teams Sport in Gdańsk Sports clubs established in 1945 1945 establishments in Poland