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Poland at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Poland at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Sporting event delegation


Poland competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This was the nation's twentieth appearance at the Summer Olympics, having missed the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles because of the Soviet boycott. The Polish Olympic Committee (Polish: Polski Komitet Olimpijski, PKO) sent a total of 218 athletes to the Games, 130 men and 88 women, to compete in 22 sports.

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Poland left London with a total of 11 Olympic medals (3 gold, 2 silver, and 6 bronze), tying with Beijing for the nation's highest overall number of medals. Two of the medals were awarded to the team in athletics, sailing, and weightlifting. Among the nation's medalists were shot putter Tomasz Majewski, who successfully defended his Olympic title from Beijing, and double sculls pair Magdalena Fularczyk and Julia Michalska, who became the first Polish women to claim an Olympic rowing medal in 32 years. Windsurfers Przemysław Miarczyński and Zofia Klepacka recaptured their nation's success in sailing, as they each won the bronze medal.

Several Polish athletes, however, suffered setbacks at these Olympic Games. Tennis player Agnieszka Radwańska, who ranked second by the Women's Tennis Association, was surprisingly eliminated in the first round of women's singles.[1] Meanwhile, the men's indoor volleyball team, champions of the 2012 FIVB World League, failed to advance into the semi-finals for the third consecutive time, after losing to Russia in the quarterfinals. Star sailor and double Olympic medalist Mateusz Kusznierewicz, and the men's quadruple sculls team, led by Michał Jeliński, finished outside of the medal standings in the final race.

Medalists

Delegation

Polski Komitet Olimpijski (POK) selected a team of 218 athletes, 130 men and 88 women, to compete in 22 sports; it was the nation's fourth-largest team sent to the Olympics. Men's volleyball was the only team-based sport in which Poland had its representation in these Olympic Games. There was only a single competitor in boxing, equestrian eventing, rhythmic gymnastics, and taekwondo. Athletics was the largest team by sport, with a total of 60 competitors.

The Polish team included five past Olympic champions, two of them defending (shot putter Tomasz Majewski, and the men's quadruple sculls team, led by Michał Jeliński). Five Polish athletes, on the other hand, competed at their fifth Olympic Games: rowers Marek Kolbowicz and Adam Korol, sailor and double medalist Mateusz Kusznierewicz, hammer thrower and former champion Szymon Ziółkowski, and sprint kayaker and three-time medalist Aneta Konieczna. Dressage rider Katarzyna Milczarek, at age 46, was the oldest athlete of the team, while relay swimmer Diana Sokołowska was the youngest at age 17.

Other notable Polish athletes featured table tennis player Natalia Partyka, who competed for the second time at both Olympic and Paralympic games, swimmer and triple Olympic medalist Otylia Jędrzejczak in the women's butterfly event, double Olympic medalist Sylwia Gruchała in women's foil fencing, windsurfer and multiple-time world champion Przemysław Miarczyński, and sisters Agnieszka and Urszula Radwańska, who both played in the women's tennis doubles. Agnieszka Radwańska, who ranked second by the Women's Tennis Association, became the first Polish female flag bearer at the opening ceremony.[2]

The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games:

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Archery

Poland has qualified one archer for the men's individual event, and the other for the women's individual event.

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Athletics

Polish athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event at the 'A' Standard, and 1 at the 'B' Standard):[3][4]

Key
  • Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
  • Q = Qualified for the next round
  • q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
  • NR = National record
  • N/A = Round not applicable for the event
  • Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round
Henryk Szost finished ninth in men's marathon.
Men
Track & road events
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* Advanced by judges decision after being pushed by Kuwait's Mohammad Al-Azemi in the prelims.

Field events
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Women
Track & road events
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Field events
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Combined events – Heptathlon
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Badminton

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* Adam Cwalina / Michał Łogosz retired after first match. All matches after were valued as 0-21, 0-21

Boxing

Women
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Canoeing

Slalom

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Sprint

Men
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Women
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Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal)

Cycling

Road

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Track

Sprint
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Team sprint
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Keirin
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Omnium
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Mountain biking

Marek Konwa in men's cross-country race
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Equestrian

Dressage

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Eventing

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Fencing

Poland has qualified 7 athletes.

Men
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Women
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Gymnastics

Artistic

Men
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Women
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Rhythmic

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Judo

Men
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Women
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Modern pentathlon

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Rowing

Men
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Women
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Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Sailing

Poland has so far qualified 1 boat for each of the following events:

Men
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Open
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M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race;

Shooting

Poland has qualified for four quota places in shooting events;[5]

Women
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Swimming

Polish swimmers have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):[6][7]

Men
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Women
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Table tennis

Poland has qualified one athlete for singles table tennis events. Based on her world ranking as of 16 May 2011 Li Qian has qualified for the women's event.[8]

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Taekwondo

Poland has qualified 1 athlete.

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Tennis

Men
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Agnieszka Radwańska in women's tennis singles.
Women
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Mixed
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Triathlon

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Volleyball

Poland has qualified men's teams for both the indoor tournament and the beach tournament.

  • Men's indoor event – 1 team of 12 players
  • Men's beach event – 1 team of 2 players

Men's beach tournament

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Men's indoor tournament

Team roster

The following is the Polish roster in the men's volleyball tournament of the 2012 Summer Olympics.[9]

Head coach: Italy Andrea Anastasi

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Group play
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Source: [citation needed]
29 July 2012 (2012-07-29)
20:00
Italy  1–3  Poland Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London
Attendance: 15,000
Referees: Rolando Cholakian (ARG), Zorica Bjelić (SRB)
(25–21, 20–25, 23–25, 14–25)
Results Statistics

31 July 2012 (2012-07-31)
11:40
Poland  1–3  Bulgaria Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London
Attendance: 11,300
Referees: Andrey Zenovich (RUS), Akihiko Tano (JPN)
(22–25, 27–29, 25–13, 23–25)
Results Statistics

2 August 2012 (2012-08-02)
16:45
Poland  3–0  Argentina Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London
Attendance: 13,000
Referees: Georgios Karampetsos (GRE), Ibrahim Al-Naama (QAT)
(25–18, 25–20, 25–16)
Results Statistics

4 August 2012 (2012-08-04)
11:30
Great Britain  0–3  Poland Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London
Attendance: 14,900
Referees: Ibrahim Al-Naama (QAT), Georgios Karampetsos (GRE)
(16–25, 19–25, 18–25)
Results Statistics

6 August 2012 (2012-08-06)
09:30
Australia  3–1  Poland Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London
Attendance: 12,000
Referees: Rogerio Espicalsky (BRA), Andrey Zenovich (RUS)
(25–21, 25–22, 18–25, 25–22)
Results Statistics
Quarter-finals
8 August 2012 (2012-08-08)
19:30
Poland  0–3  Russia Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London
Attendance: 14,000
Referees: Frans Loderus (NED), Nasr Shaaban (EGY)
(17–25, 23–25, 21–25)
Results Statistics

Weightlifting

Poland has qualified 6 men and 3 women.

Men
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Wrestling

Poland has qualified at least only four quota places in wrestling events.

Key:

  • VTVictory by Fall.
  • PP – Decision by Points – the loser with technical points.
  • PO – Decision by Points – the loser without technical points.
Men's Greco-Roman
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Women's freestyle
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References

  1. "Radwańska waves goodbye to Olympic dream". Mutua Madrid Open. 30 July 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
  2. "Radwańska Selected as Olympics Flag Bearer for Poland". Mutua Madrid Open. 8 July 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
  3. "iaaf.org – Top Lists". IAAF. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
  4. "Quota places by Nation and Name". ISSF. 8 March 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
  5. "Swimming World Rankings". FINA. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
  6. "Direct Qualifiers for 2012 London Olympic Games – Provisional list" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 August 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2011.

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