page_title: Poland men's national volleyball team
section_title: 2012
hierarchical_section_title: Poland men's national volleyball team / History / 2011–2013 Andrea Anastasi / 2012
caption_attribution_description: Zdjęcie zrobione podczas meczu Polska - USA siatkarskiej Ligii Światowej w katowickim Spodku.
context_page_description: The Poland national men's volleyball team is controlled by the Polski Związek Piłki Siatkowej, which represents the country in international competitions and friendly matches. Poland is one of the world's strongest teams, it is the reigning World Champion since 2014 and is ranked second in the FIVB world ranking.
context_section_description: The main purpose for the team were Olympics, but earlier they participated in FIVB World League 2012. They won 10 of 12 matches of intercontinental round, including 3 times won with Brazil, which was successful after many years of defeats. Poland advanced to Final Six, which was held in Sofia, Bulgaria. Polish team was in Pool F with Cuba and Brazil. They won with the both of group matches and went to the semi-final. They beat the host – Bulgaria and for the first time in history had a chance to play in final of World League. On 8 July 2012 won the final match against United States (3–0). It was a second medal of World League for Polish team and the first gold. Polish players received 4 of 8 individual awards. Best Spiker was Zbigniew Bartman, Best Blocker – Marcin Możdżonek, Best Libero – Krzysztof Ignaczak and Most Valuable Player – Bartosz Kurek.
  On 29 July 2012 the team played their first Pool A match at the 20123 London Summer Olympics against Italy (3–1). Polish national team won 3 of 5 pool matches, but lost with Bulgaria and Australia. They went to quarterfinal, but lost it after 3–1 match against future Olympic Champions – Russia. Despite the defeat, Krzysztof Ignaczak was the Best Receiver of the 2012 Summer Olympics (four years earlier, the same award received another Polish player – Michał Winiarski).
  Poland had the success and failure of this season, but despite this they were elected the best team of 2012 in 78th Plebiscyt Przeglądu Sportowego 2012 in Poland.
caption: Bartosz Kurek in match Poland – United States (World League 2013).
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