AZS-AWFiS Gdańsk is a Polish multisports club based in Gdańsk, Poland. It is the university sports club for the Jędrzej Śniadecki Academy of Physical Education and Sport (AWFiS), and has seen many of the club's teams becoming professional and, at times, competitive within their respective sports.
The club currently has sections in 9 sports, these sports being; athletics, bobsleigh, fencing, gymnastics, judo, rowing, sailing, swimming, table tennis, and a section for universal sports, of the focused sports many athletes from these sections have represented Poland at the Olympics.
While these sections are no longer active within the sports club, in the early 2000s the club had competitive teams in rugby and handball.
Sections
Men's handball
Men's handball: AZS-AWFiS Gdańsk - dissolved 2010
The men's handball team, while not as successful as the women's section still had some minor success and played in the Superliga for six seasons between 2003–2010. The team's highest finish was a 6th placed finish in 2008–09.
Women's handball
Women's handball: AZS-AWFiS Gdańsk - dissolved 2017
In the early 2000s the women's handball team was one of the best in Poland, finishing consistently as one of the best three clubs in the country. The club won one Polish championship, one Polish Cup, and made the semi-finals of the European Cup.
Honours;
Superliga Winners: 2003–04 Runners-up: 2004–05, 2007–08 Third place: 2001–02, 2002–03, 2005–06
Polish Cup Winners: 2005
European Cup Semi-final: 2002–03
Rugby
Originally formed in 1988 as an affiliate club for RC Lechia Gdańsk and known as Lotnik Pruszcz Gdański. The team became part of the AZS-AWFiS sports club in 2000 when the team moved to Gdańsk. As a rugby union team, the club's honours came before the integration into the AZS-AWFiS sports club, with the team finishing 3rd in the Ekstraliga in 1999–2000, and winning the Polish Cup in 2000. The rugby union club dissolved in 2006, with the AZS-AWFiS Gdańsk rugby section focusing on rugby sevens since 2008.
Olympians
In total 11 ASZ AWFiS Gdańsk Olympians have won 14 Olympic medals.
Medals AZS AWFiS Gdańsk266
The following athletes have won medals at the Olympics;
Rome 1960
Jarosława Jóźwiakowska: 2nd Women's high jump
Barcelona 1992
Maciej Łasicki: 3rd Coxed four Cezary Siess: 3rd Men's team foil Ryszard Sobczak: 3rd Men's team foil Tomasz Tomiak: 3rd Coxed four
Atlanta 1996
Jarosław Rodzewicz: 2nd Men's team foil Ryszard Sobczak: 2nd Men's team foil
Sydney 2000
Leszek Blanik: 3rd Men's vault Sylwia Gruchała: 2nd Women's team foil Magdalena Mroczkiewicz: 2nd Women's team foil Anna Rybicka: 2nd Women's team foil
Athens 2004
Sylwia Gruchała: 3rd Women's foil
Beijing 2008
Leszek Blanik: 1st Men's vault Adam Korol: 1st Men's quadruple sculls
See also Sport in Gdańsk Sports in Poland
References