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Until recently, Piesiewicz was the only candidate to replace Andrzej Kraśnicki and a certainty to fill the position of the president of the Polish Olympic Committee. — My dream is to increase the budget of the Polish Olympic Committee to PLN 300 million and to invest this money in Polish sport, for example in youth training. We need to develop a system to find talent, not to lose it. There are plenty of ideas and programs for this. If there is money, there will also be results, Piesiewicz said before the elections. Now he can triumph.
Ultimately, he was not the only candidate in the election, because a competitor appeared on the last straight. It was Kewin Rozum, president of the Polish Sumo Association, a lawyer from Krotoszyn.
Radosław Piesiewicz is the new president of the Polish Olympic Committee
The President was elected by the General Meeting with an absolute majority of votes cast, under the 50% rule. plus one. 173 delegates were entitled to vote: three out of 40 Olympic unions, 48 Ordinary Members of the Polish Olympic Committee, two votes belonged to the Society of Polish Olympians and the Athletes’ Committee, and one to a member of the IOC.
Radosław Piesiewicz will be the thirteenth president of the Polish Olympic Committee. He will receive the powers from Andrzej Kraśnicki, who is stepping down from his position.
Presidents of the Polish Olympic Committee and years in office:
- Stefan Lubomirski 1919–1923
- Kazimierz Lubomirski 1923–1929
- Kazimierz Glabisz 1929–1939
- Alfred Loth 1946–1952
- Włodzimierz Reczek 1953–1973
- Boleslaw the Captain 1973–1978
- Marian Renke 1978–1986
- Aleksander Kwasniewski 1988–1991
- Andrzej Szalewicz 1991–1997
- Stanisław Stefan Paszczyk 1997–2005
- Piotr Nurowski 2005–2010
- Andrzej Krasnicki 2010-2023
Author:PGR
Source:Onet Sports Review
Date of creation: today, 14:04
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