AZS-AWFiS Gdańsk
AZS-AWFiS Gdańsk is a Polish multisports club based in Gdańsk, Poland. It is the university sports club for the Academy of Physical Education and Sport Jędrzej Śniadeckiego in Gdańsk, and has seen many of the clubs teams becoming professional and at times competitive within their respective sports. The club currently has sections in gymnastics, judo, athletics, swimming, fencing, table tennis, rowing, and sailing, of which many athletes from these sections have represented Poland at the Olympics. While these sections are no longer active within the sports club, in the early 2000's the club had competitive  teams in rugby and handball. Sections. Men's handball. Men's handball: AZS-AWFiS Gdańsk - "dissolved 2010" The men's handball team, while not as successful as the women's section still had some minor success and played in the Superliga for six seasons between 2003–2010. The teams highest finish was a 6th placed finish in 2008–09. Women's handball. Women's handball: AZS-AWFiS Gdańsk - "dissolved 2017" In the early 2000's the women's handball team was one of the best in Poland, finishing consistently as one of the best three clubs in the country. The club won  one Polish championship, one Polish Cup, and made the semi-finals of the European Cup. Honours; Superliga Polish Cup European Cup Rugby. Originally formed in 1988 as an affiliate club for RC Lechia Gdańsk and known as Lotnik Pruszcz Gdański. The team became part of the AZS-AWFiS sports club in 2000 when the team moved to Gdańsk. As a rugby union team, the clubs honours came before the integration into the AZS-AWFiS sports club, with the team finishing 3rd in the Ekstraliga in 1999–2000, and winning the Polish Cup in 2000. The rugby union club dissolved in 2006 , with the AZS-AWFiS Gdańsk rugby section focusing on rugby sevens since 2008. Olympians. In total 11 ASZ AWFiS Gdańsk Olympians have won 14 Olympic medals. The following athletes have won medals at the Olympics; Rome 1960 Barcelona 1992 Atlanta 1996 Sydney 2000 Athens 2004 Beijing 2008