Andrzej Piotr Kraśnicki (31 January 1949 – 10 January 2025) was a Polish

sports administrator Sport management is the field of business dealing with sports and recreation. Sports management involves any combination of skills that correspond with planning, organizing, directing, controlling, budgeting, leading, or evaluating of any organiza ...

. He was president of the

Polish Handball Association The Polish Handball Association (, ZPRP) is the national handball association in Poland. ZPRP is a member of the European Handball Federation (EHF), the International Handball Federation (IHF) and the Polish Olympic Committee. References Ex ...

from 2006 to 2021. From 2010 to 2023 he served as president of the

Polish Olympic Committee The Polish Olympic Committee (, official acronym PKOl) is the National Olympic Committee representing Poland. History The Polish Olympic Committee was established on 12 October 1919 and in 1919 was recognised by the International Olympic Commit ...

Early life

Kraśnicki was born in

Nidzica Nidzica (; formerly ; ; ) is a town in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship of Poland, lying between Olsztyn and Mława, in Masuria. The capital of Nidzica County, its population in 2017 was 13,872. History The settlement was originally founded by O ...

, Poland on 31 January 1949.

Career

Kraśnicki was president of the

from 2006 to 2021. While he was president, the Polish team medaled three times in the IHF World Men's Handball Championships, in

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

, and

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

. He resigned in February 2021. After Piotr Nurowski's death on 20 April 2010, he began serving as president of the

. He served until 22 April 2023, resigning a month before the election that he decided not to run in. He became an honorary professor of Collegium Humanum – Warsaw Management University in 2020.

Death

Kraśnicki died on 10 January 2025, at the age of 75.

Awards

Kraśnicki was a recipient of the

Order of Polonia Restituta The Order of Polonia Restituta (, ) is a Polish state decoration, state Order (decoration), order established 4 February 1921. It is conferred on both military and civilians as well as on alien (law), foreigners for outstanding achievements in ...

(2024).

References

1949 births 2025 deaths People from Nidzica Sports executives and administrators Handball administrators Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta {{Poland-sport-bio-stub