Polish Olympic Team – Rio de Janeiro 2016

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“Polish Painters of the 19th and
20th Centuries” – Olga Boznańska
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Polish Olympic Team –
Rio de Janeiro 2016
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Polish Olympic Team – Rio de Janeiro 2016
Poland debuted at the Summer Olympics in Paris in 1924.
The debut was successful and brought Poland two
medals – a silver for the track cycling team and bronze for
the horse rider Adam Królikiewicz in the show jumping
competition. Since then, representatives of Poland have
participated in every Summer Olympic Games (except
for the games held in Los Angeles in 1984, when Poland’s
absence was due to political reasons). The first gold for
Poland was won in Amsterdam in 1928 by the discus
thrower Halina Konopacka.
Poland’s athletes have won a total of 271 medals at
the Summer Olympics (including 64 gold, 82 silver and
125 bronze medals). The most medals were won by track
and field athletes, boxers, wrestlers and fencers.
Poland won the largest haul of medals – 32 – in Moscow
(1980), and the most gold medals – 7 – in Tokyo (1964),
Munich (1972), Montreal (1976) and Atlanta (1996).
Starting from Athens (2004), successive Olympic
Games have added only 10 Olympic medals to Poland’s
achievements, and Poland’s position in the world
rankings has weakened. One of the reasons for this is
the change in the “geography” of sport – many new,
independent countries have been created. Sport has
developed rapidly in Asia and Africa, which means it is
more difficult to win a medal. The road to participation
in the Olympics, leading through a complex system
of qualifications, is also longer, especially for athletes
from Europe. However, we are counting on the success
of the Polish Olympic Team and the breaking of
the 10-medal barrier.
The Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games (5–21 August 2016)
will be the first such event in South America and –
despite the 5-hour time difference – will certainly attract
great interest in Poland, not only from sports fans.
The WOMEN’S HAMMER THROW was included into
the Olympic programme in Sydney in 2000. The inaugural
competition was won by Kamila Skolimowska, who was
just under 18 at the time.
She participated in two more Olympic Games (in Athens
and Beijing). She broke the national record 15 times and
was the Polish Champion 12 times. She died suddenly
at a training camp in Portugal in February 2009. Her
hammer-throwing friend, Anita Włodarczyk, is a worthy
continuator of her achievements. She already has under
her belt an Olympic silver medal (London 2012), two
World Championship titles and the current world record.
She is Poland’s great hope for an Olympic medal in Rio
de Janeiro.
Face value 200 zł
Metal: Au
900/1000
Finish: proof
Diameter: 27.00
Weight: 15.50 g
mm
Edge: plain
Mintage: up
to 2,000 pcs
Designer: Robert Kotowicz
Issuer: NBP
The coins, commissioned by NBP,
were struck by Mennica Polska S.A
Face value 10 zł
Metal: Ag 925/1000
Finish: proof
Dimensions: 32.00 mm
Weight: 14.14 g
Edge: plain
Mintage: up
to 30,000 pcs
Designer: Robert Kotowicz
Issuer: NBP
The coins, commissioned by NBP,
were struck by Mennica Polska S.A.
MOUNTAIN BIKING (MTB) has only been a fully-fledged
sports discipline for a quarter of a century and first appeared
at the Olympic Games in Atlanta (1996). The sport gained
a foothold in Poland relatively quickly and in the following
years Poland began to achieve considerable success in this
discipline. It is the women who have achieved the most
success: Anna Szafraniec, Aleksandra Dawidowicz and super
champion Maja Włoszczowska. Maja Włoszczowska was
the vice Olympic Champion in Beijing (2008) and the winner
of 20 (!) medals (including 4 gold) in the World and European
Championships in various MTB competitions. She won
a bronze medal at the First European Games (Baku 2015).
On 26 July 2016 Narodowy Bank Polski is putting into
circulation collector coins “Polish Olympic Team – Rio
de Janeiro 2016”, a gold coin with the face value of 200 zł
and a silver coin with the face value of 10 zł.
She should also be a strong link in Poland’s team
in Rio.
Henryk Urbaś
Polish Olympic Committee
The obverse of the gold coin features a system of stars
with the Southern Cross constellation which appears
on the Brazilian national flag, while the reverse
presents the Polish Olympic Symbol, a stylised figure
of a mountain biker during a race and a reference to
the fauna and flora of Brazil, the host of the Games of
the XXXI Olympiad, Rio 2016.
The obverse of the silver coin features a stylised outline
of the trajectory, around which a male hammer
thrower is spinning, the figure of the hammer thrower,
and the system of stars that appears on Brazil’s
national flag. In turn, the reverse features the Polish
Olympic Symbol, the stylised figure of a female
hammer thrower and references to Brazilian nature.