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Team
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Poland
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The Polish women’s national team was
founded in 1947. In their first
official international appearance the
White and Reds lost to Czechoslovakia
1-3, nevertheless Poland soon joined
the group of the world’s top teams and
recorded significant achievements
throughout the 1950s and 60s,
including two Olympic
bronze
medals in Tokyo 1964 and Mexico 1968.
Since then, however, the last three
decades were not so successful and the
sudden but very enjoyable change came
only in 2003.
New head coach Andrzej Niemczyk, who
came back to the post after 26 years
from his first stint, brought new
spirit and gave inspiration to the
previously faithless players of the
national team. He somehow induced them
to show their best on the court and
now they do. Poland’s rising power was
visible during the World Grand Prix
continental tournament in August, when
the home team finished runner's-up,
claiming its spot for the 2004 Grand
Prix.
Furthermore, the Poles pulled off a
huge surprise during the last European
Championship in Turkey,
knocking over the hosts in straight
sets in the final to
claim gold.
Malgorzata Glinka was honored as the
Best Scorer – and unofficially the MVP
- of the tournament, while the team’s
captain, Magdalena Sliwa, received an
award for the Best Setter.
The current team, which is about to
make Poland’s debut in the World Cup,
is a combination of experience and
youth. Veterans, like the above
mentioned Sliwa or the head coach’s
daughter, Malgorzata Niemczyk-Wolska,
both 34, have an occasion to share
their experience with young talents
like Agata Mroz, Katarzyna Skowronska
or two of Poland's 2003 Junior World
Championship bronze medallists, Anna
Podolec and Izabela Zebrowska.
POLISH WOMEN’S TEAM’S MOST SIGNIFICANT
ACHIEVEMENTS
Olympic Games:
Bronze medals in 1964 & 1968
World Championship:
Silver medal in 1952
Bronze medals in 1956 & 1962
European Championship:
Gold medal in 2003
Silver medals in 1950, 1951, 1963 &
1967
Bronze medals in 1949, 1955, 1958,
1971
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