2. Poland's sports include almost all sports, in particular:
track & field, basketball, boxing, fencing, football,
American football (Gridiron), handball, ice hockey,
swimming, volleyball, and weightlifting. The first Polish
Formula One driver, Robert Kubica, has also brought
awareness of Formula One Racing to Poland. football are
the country's most popular sports, with a rich history of
international competition. Poland has also made a
distinctive mark in motorcycle speedway racing thanks to
Tomasz Gollob, a highly successful Polish rider. 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 is also
an incredibly popular TV sports, gathering 4-5 million
viewers each race, with Justina Kowalczyk as the main
attraction. Baltic beaches and resorts are popular
locations for fishing, canoeing, kayaking and a broad-
range of other water-themed sports.

3. Polish National Football Team
The Polish National Football Team was the winner of the
1972 Olympic Football Tournament, as well as a runner-
up in 1976 and 1992. Poland has made seven FIFA
World Cup appearances (1938, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986,
2002, 2006) and achieved great success, finishing third
at both the 1974 World Cup in Germany and the 1982
World Cup in Spain. The junior team has also achieved
success on the international stage, finishing third at the
1983 FIFA U-20 World Cup Final, fourth at the 1979 FIFA
U-20 World Cup Final and fourth at the 1993 FIFA U-17
World Cup Final.

4. Basketball
Basketball is one of Poland's most popular sports. In the
1960s, the national team belonged to the world elite as it
won silver at the 1963 European Basketball
Championship and bronze at the 1965 and 1967 event.
At the 1967 FIBA World Championship, Poland was
among the world's five elite basketball teams. At the 1964
and 1968 Summer Olympics, the Orły ("Eagles," as the
team is often nicknamed) finished 6th.
Since 2000, basketball in Poland went trough a revival
and has been home to several NBA players, including
Marcin Gortat, Maciej Lampe and Cezary Trybański. The
country hosted the 2009 European Basketball
Championship.

5.  Ice hockey
 Main article: Poland national ice hockey team
 The Poland national ice hockey team is the national ice
hockey team of Poland, and a member of the International Ice
Hockey Federation. They are ranked 21st in the world in the
IIHF World Rankings, but prior to the 1980s they were ranked
as high as 6th internationally. They are one of only 8 countries
never to have played below the Division I (former B Pool)
level.
 Poland has managed to produce some NHL calibre talent
including Mariusz Czerkawski with the New York Islanders,
Peter Sidorkiewicz for both the Hartford Whalers and the
Ottawa Senators, and Krzysztof Oliwa for the New Jersey
Devils where he won a Stanley Cup in 1999-2000.

6.  Adam Henryk Małysz ( listen) (born 3 December 1977 in
Wisła, Poland) is a former Polish ski jumper, one of the
most successful ski jumpers in the history of the sport.
 The most important of Małysz's successes are 4
individual Olympic Games medals, 4 individual World
Championships gold medals (all-time record), 4 individual
World Cup titles (all-time record shared with Matti
Nykänen), 39 individual competition wins and 92 podiums
in total.
 After concluding his ski-jumping career in 2011 he
appeared in Dakar Rally in 2012 and 2013 reaching 37
and 15 respectively.

7. Handball
(also known as team handball, Olympic handball,
European team handball, European handball, or Borden
ball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players
each (six outfield players and a goalkeeper on each
team) pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other
team. A standard match consists of two periods of 30
minutes, and the team with more goals scored wins.
Modern handball is usually played indoors, but outdoor
variants exist in the forms of field handball and Czech
handball (which were more common in the past) and
beach handball (also called handball).

8. Volleyball
is a team sport in which two teams of six players are
separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by
grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized
rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summer
Olympic Games since 1964.
A scene of Volleyball play in Ervadi village. The complete
rules are extensive. But simply, play proceeds as follows: a
player on one of the teams begins a 'rally' by serving the ball
(tossing or releasing it and then hitting it with a hand or arm),
from behind the back boundary line of the court, over the net,
and into the receiving team's court. The receiving team must
not let the ball be grounded within their court. The team may
touch the ball up to 3 times but individual players may not
touch the ball twice consecutively. Typically, the first two
touches are used to set up for an attack, an attempt to direct
the ball back over the net in such a way that the serving team
is unable to prevent it from being grounded in their court.

9. Motorcycle speedway,
usually referred to as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four
and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps
of an oval circuit. Speedway motorcycles use only one gear and have no
brakes and racing takes place on a flat oval track usually consisting of
dirt or loosely packed shale. Competitors use this surface to slide their
machines sideways, powersliding or broadsiding into the bends. On the
straight sections of the track the motorcycles reach speeds of up 70
miles per hour (110 km/h).
The exact origins of the sport are unknown but there is evidence
of a type of speedway racing being practised in the USA before the First
World War and in Australia in the late teens and early 1920s. There are
now both domestic and international competitions in a number of
countries including the Speedway World Cup whilst the highest overall
scoring individual in the Speedway Grand Prix events is pronounced the
world champion. Speedway is popular in central and northern Europe
and to a lesser extent in Australia and North America. A variant of track
racing, speedway is administered internationally by the Fédération
Internationally de Motocyclisme (FIM). Domestic speedway events are
regulated by FIM affiliated national motor sport federations.