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 team who race in the 1. Liga.

Speedway

2022 squad

* Rasmus Jensen * Wiktor Trofimov * Piotr Gryszpinski * Jakub Jamróg * Timo Lahti * 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 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, 1966 European Athletics Championships * European Championships Bronze Medal: Władysław Komar - shot put, 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 * European Championships ** 3 titles (Gold Medals) *** Zenon Stefaniuk, 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 bronze medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics 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 Su ...

, Seoul 1988 **Bronze:

, Moscow 1980 * 4 World Judo Championship 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 (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 Sum ...

(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 t ...

(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