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Aleksander Śliwka
Aleksander Śliwka (born 24 May 1995) is a Polish professional volleyball player who plays as an outside hitter for Suntory Sunbirds and the Poland men's national volleyball team, Poland national team. He won the silver medal in the Olympic Games 2024 Summer Olympics, Paris 2024. He is also the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, 2018 World Champion, and a three–time CEV Champions League, Champions League winner (2020–21 CEV Champions League, 2021, 2021–22 CEV Champions League, 2022, 2022–23 CEV Champions League, 2023) with ZAKSA. Career Club During the 2017–18 PlusLiga season, he was one of the main players of Resovia (volleyball), Asseco Resovia. In May 2018, he moved to ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle. National team In 2015, he was called up to the Poland men's national volleyball team, national team by the head coach Stéphane Antiga. After the training camp in Spała, he joined the team led by coach Andrzej Kowal which took part in the 2015 European Games. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jawor
Jawor () is a town in south-western Poland with 22,890 inhabitants (2019). It is situated in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the seat of Jawor County, and lies approximately west of the regional capital Wrocław. One of the oldest towns in the region, with a history of more than a thousand years, Jawor was one of the main centers of weaving in Silesia and, in 1274–1392, the capital of an eponymous principality ruled by a local line of the Piast dynasty. It has a preserved medieval urban layout with several Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque structures, including the Church of Peace, a Historic Monument of Poland and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Jawor is the site for electrical machinery, chemical, paper and food industries, and there are numerous granite and basalt quarries near the town. Through the town flows the 31 mile long Raging Nysa river (pl: ''Nysa Szalona''). Etymology The name of the city ''Jawor'' comes from the Polish word for " sycamore maple." The earlie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
