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Line 2: {{Use dmy dates\|date=September 2022}} {{Culture of Poland}} '''Poland's sports''' include almost all sporting disciplines, in particular: [[Association football\|football]] (the most popular sport), [[volleyball]], [[motorcycle speedway]], [[ski jumping]], [[track and field~~]], [[American football~~]], [[team handball\|handball]], [[basketball]], [[tennis]], and [[combat sport]]. The first Polish Formula One driver, [[Robert Kubica]], has brought awareness of Formula One Racing to Poland. Volleyball is one of the country's most popular sports, with a rich history of international competition. Poland has made a distinctive mark in motorcycle speedway racing thanks to [[Tomasz Gollob]], [[Jaroslaw Hampel]], [[Bartosz Zmarzlik]], [[Maciej Janowski]] and [[Rune Holta]]. Speedway is very popular in Poland. They won the world cup (2014), and the Polish Extraleague has the highest average attendances for any sport in Poland. The Polish mountains are an ideal venue for hiking, skiing and mountain biking and attract millions of tourists every year from all over the world. Cross country skiing and ski jumping are popular TV sports, gathering 4–5 million viewers each competition, with [[Justyna Kowalczyk]], [[Dawid Kubacki]], [[Adam Małysz]] and [[Kamil Stoch]] as the main attractions. [[Baltic Sea\|Baltic]] beaches and resorts are popular locations for fishing, canoeing, kayaking and a broad-range of other water-themed sports. Poland also has a national Kabaddi team, which participated in 2016 Kabaddi World Cup. Most recently, Poland won the [[Kabaddi#European%20Kabaddi%20championship\|European Championships 2019]] in Glasgow defeating Holland in the finals 48-27 under the captaincy of [[Michal Spiczko]]. ==History== Line 67 ⟶ 65: Since 2000, basketball in Poland went through a revival and has been home to several [[National Basketball Association\|NBA]] players, including [[Marcin Gortat]], [[Maciej Lampe]], [[Cezary Trybański]] and [[Jeremy Sochan]]. The country hosted the [[2009 European Basketball Championship]]. ~~==American Football==~~ The [[Polish American Football Association]] is governing body in Poland. American football is the fastest growing sport in Poland. The top superliga league winner is crowned as the National champions since 2006. ==Ice hockey== Line 101 ⟶ 96: [[Bandy]] is still a very small sport in the country. Poland made their 1st international appearance 2006 at the U-15 World Championships for boys in [[Edsbyn]], Sweden. The team consisted of players from [[Giżycko]] and [[Krynica-Zdrój]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.bandyvm.se/eng2/read.asp?NewsID=69\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171229112257/http://www.bandyvm.se/eng2/read.asp?NewsID=69\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=2017-12-29\|title=Bandy 2006, World Championships \|publisher=Bandyvm.se \|date=2005-12-01 \|access-date=2014-05-05}}</ref> [[Orienteering]] is a popular sport that combines [[cross-country running]] with land [[navigation]] traits in the woods. Orienteering in Poland is organized by the [[Polski Związek Orientacji Sportowej]].<ref>{{cite web\|author=Aleksander Bernaciak \|url=http://orienteering.org.pl/ \|title=zielonysport.pl – Polski Związek Orientacji Sportowej \|publisher=Orienteering.org.pl \|access-date=2014-05-05}}</ref> [[Polish American Football League]] (PLFA – pl. Polska Liga Futbolu Amerykańskiego) is the league of the American Football in Poland, founded in 2006., ~~American football is arguably fastest growing sport~~disbanded in ~~Poland~~2019. [[Ice yachting]] – [[Karol Jabłoński]] is an [[International DN]] champion of the world.

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