Gdańsk Tech becomes the Polish Academic Champion for the third time in a row! | Gdańsk University of Technology

Once again, our university took part in all the disciplines that are part of the PAC. Only the main competitor of Gdańsk Tech - the University of Warsaw – also succeeded to do so.

– After what happened, I have such a feeling that it is worth being patient. The current successes are the result of our many years of systematic work. We approached the matter differently than most universities and we started our path to victories in PAC by building the appropriate infrastructure. Only then did we start organizing classes, sections and encouraging young people to practice sports, and at the same time creating an appropriate coaching staff. We wanted to take care of the development of sport in the amateur dimension – emphasizes prof. Krzysztof Wilde, rector of Gdańsk Tech. – For over a decade, our university has been looking favorably at sport. The people who manage our Academic Sports Center, i.e. Krzysztof Kaszuba, Andrzej Bussler and Kazimierz Rozwadowski, make sure that everything functions properly. We want to improve all the time, which is why in the near future we plan to build an entertainment hall tailored to our needs, new tennis courts in a balloon hall, and to create a special restaurant for our student-athletes who will be able to order meals there taking into account all their needs and possible tips from dietitians.

Taking the first place in the general classification, Gdańsk University of Technology scored a total of 2907.5 points. This is the best result of our university in the history of participation in PAC. The University of Warsaw, second in the classification, scored 2783 points, and the third, the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, 2640.5 points. In the medal classification, Gdańsk University of Technology took 6th place. We missed the third place in this classification by only one gold medal.

Lots of great starts and hard work of the coaches

The third victory of Gdańsk Tech in the Polish Academic Championships is due to the hard work of the coaches and the excellent starts of our students and employees during the competition. This season, the best players in the team standings were floorball players, powerlifters, soccer players, 3x3 basketball players and sailors who won gold medals both in the general classification and among technical universities. Let us add that for the eighth time in a row they defended the title of Academic Polish Champions! Silver medals were won by mountain bikers, basketball players, athletes and powerlifters. The last three teams added TU gold medals to this. The representatives of Gdańsk Tech in cross-country and men's climbing races took the third place on the podium in the general standings. The first ones also won TU gold, and the second ones won silver among TU.

TU gold medals were also awarded to fencers, tennis players and table tennis players and Gdańsk Tech representatives participating in horse riding at PAC. The silver was won by badminton players, rowers, basketball players, male and female volleyball players, football players, swimmers and female athletes competing in PAC in rowing ergometer and sport climbing. Bronze medals were won by snowboarders, 3x3 basketball players, handball players, track and field athletes, skiers, Gdańsk Tech competitors in cross-country skiing and ergometer competitors.

Individual gold medals in the general classification were won by Anna Ławrukajtis in the 3 km run, Katarzyna Duda in the Ergometer (KO), Wiktor Mertka in the javelin, Kamil Linstedt powerlifters in the 74 kg category and Marcin Statkiewicz - 105 kg category, as well as TEAM at PAC in Sports Aerobics composed of (Kłapsia Georginia, Kowal Katarzyna, Lushyna Yuliia, Skrzypińska Klaudia, Słowińska Wiktoria, Wasilewska Marta, Wikarska Sandra). Silver discs were won by Krzysztof Żygenda in the 9 km run (cross-country runs), Adrian Sadowski in the ergometer (MO), judo fighter Michał Jędrzejewski in the -100 kg category, Paulina Borys in the high jump, powerlifters - Paulina Szymanel in the 52 kg category and Piotr Konkol in 120 kg category, Katarzyna Duda in single rowing, karate fighters Jakub Kułaga (75 kg) and Jan Wojdakowski (67 kg) as well as a sailing crew consisting of Tomasz Kochanowski, Jan Krasodomski, Aleksander Michalski and Paweł Leksycki. All these people additionally won TU gold medals. Bronze medals in the general classification were won by athlete Jonasz Mertka in a javelin throw, fencer Piotr Borowiec in foil, powerlifter Julia Kulczycka in the 69 kg category, karate fighter Filip Wendt in the 80 kg category as well as the karate team in kumite composed of Filip Wendt, Jan Wojdakowski and Jakub Kułaga and also the sailors: Patryk Kosmalski, Karolina Żurek,Tomasz Lewandowski.