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METROPOLIS OF SPORT AND RECREATION Fans of sport and active leisure find the Bay of Gdańsk Metropolitan Area absolutely exceptional. The sports and recreational infrastructure in place enables them to indulge in almost any discipline of individual sports and team games. The infrastructure base serving team games is steadily expanded. A Performance and Sports Hall for 15 thousand spectators is now in construction on the border between Gdańsk and Sopot. Gdynia has already launched a Sports Hall taking an audience of 4.5 thousand in (2008). Gdańsk, a host city of the EURO 2012 Championship football finals, is building a football stadium capable of accommodating 44 thousand spectators. The two existing club football stadiums in Gdańsk and Gdynia have been thoroughly modernised in the recent years, several sports halls designated for training and entertainment purposes and offered for hire to the residents for sports and recreation have been erected and/or modernised. Similar projects are taken all across the Metropolitan Area where the existing sports facilities are being revamped or entirely new sports and recreational sites erected for the inhabitants and tourists. The Metropolitan Area offers several score sports facilities fit for such sports disciplines as squash or tennis. Out of the latter, the most widely known are the courts of the Sopot Tennis Club, host to the ATP Series international competitions. Many courts are also available in the winter season. The Metropolis is also known for its decades’ long horse-riding traditions. Owing to the EU funds, the Sopot hippodrome in the very heart of the Metropolitan Area, once The performance and sports hall in construction in the centre of the metropolis will enable organisation of mass events for as many as 15 thousand participants. Drawing: archives of the City Hall of Gdańsk - 44 - famous for the horse races and horse-riding competitions it used to organise, will be modernised. Intense effort is taken all across the Metropolitan Area to develop and expand the infrastructure for all kinds of water sports. Windsurfing and kite surfing clubs have located their campuses along the beach. The best known are the Sopot Sailing Club and the National Sailing Centre. The competitors training here have a record of victorious European and World Championships in sailing and windsurfing. In the summer, a number of sites right on the beach, and water sports centres offer light watercraft for hire: kayaks, water bicycles, rowing boats, motorboats, and sailing boats. Sailing clubs and the newly built marinas take in seafaring sailing and motor yachts, and offer boats for hire. Expansion of network of the sailboat ports and harbours along the shores of the Bay of Gdańsk, the Vistula Delta, and the Vistula Lagoon, under the programme of revitalisation of inland watercourses, stands high on the priority lists of the local governments who aim at enhancing the attractiveness of the metropolis and region to tourists. In effect, excellent conditions for mooring, garaging, and repairing boats have been created in the yachting ports and marinas of Gdynia and Gdańsk. Sopot also intends to join the exclusive group of the world’s sailing ports planning to build a marina on the shoulder of the world’s longest wooden pier. The Metropolitan Area has an odd dozen swimming pools to choose from, headed by the Sopot aqua park complex of pools. Other sites of the kind are planned e.g. in Gdańsk and Reda. There are three golf courses located in the immediate neighbourhood of the metropolis: the Sierra Golf Club in Piętkowice near Wejherowo, the Postołowo Golf Club in Postołowo, and the Tokary Golf Club in Tokary. The consequently developed sports infrastructure serves as the arena for professional team contests. The league games held on stadiums and in sports halls gather tens of thousands of fans every year. The Metropolitan Area takes pride in its two teams playing in the football Premier League: Lechia Gdańsk and Arka Gdynia. High in the men’s basketball tables is the Assecco Prokom Sopot team, and their women’s counterpart: Lotos PKO BP Gdynia. Fans of volleyball gather to watch matches played by the first and second league men’s teams of Trefl Gdańsk and GTS Gdańsk, and women’s teams of Energa Gedania II Gdańsk, and EC Wybrzeże TPS Rumia. Handball is also well represented in the Area in terms of both the players, and match events held. Two women’s teams: KS Łączpol Gdynia and Dablex AZS AWFiS Gdańsk, and a men’s team of KS AZS- AWFiS Gdańsk are ranked in the handball prime league. The Metropolis is a strong national centre of rugby. The top positions in the national tables in the discipline belong to: Lechia Gdańsk, Arka Gdynia, and Ogniwa Sopot. High level of mastery can also be found in cinder-track motor racing represented by the club team of GKŻ Wybrzeże, and hockey with the prime league team of GKS Stoczniowiec Gdańsk. All in all, fans cheering their clubs on the way to the highest trophies cannot complain of shortage of exciting sports events. The league teams and their players are sponsored by large regional companies which in this way turn the idea of corporate social responsibility into flesh. Atlas of the Gdańsk Metropolitan Area
Tourist Heaven Table 17. Selected sports events in the Metropolitan Area. Gdańsk Gdynia Sopot Poviat of Gdańsk • International Youth and Junior Handball Tournament • MTB Bike Tour Gdańsk 2008 • Gdansker Family Race • Gdańsk Roller Skating Rally • Great Bicycle Ride • ‘Stanislaw Przybylowski Memorial’ rowing regattas • ‘Amber Foil’ tournament • Hevelius regattas • Gdańsk Kayak Festival • St. Dominic Race • Polish Open Water Scooter Championships • Gdańsk Cup International Cinder-Track Racing Competitions • Solidarity Marathon • Westerplatte Defenders Cup regattas • International Race Walk Competition for the Polish Post Defenders Cup in Gdańsk • Dragon Boats – Polish Long Distance Championships • Hanseatic City Cup Wrestling Tournament • W. Malak International Memorial • Baltic Cup International Figure Skating Competition • Baltic Games – Extreme Sports’ Festiwal • Baltic Sea International Judo Tournament • Twin City Olympics • Polish Gdynia Cafe Cup Ballroom Dancing Tournament • Gdynia table tennis championships • ‘INTERPLASTIC CUP Gdynia’ Unihockey Tournament for the Disabled • All-Polish Rally of Tuned Automobiles • Gdynia Festival of Cheerleader Teams • Greyhound race • BIG CITY JIVE All-Polish Popular Tournament in Ballroom Dancing • Gdynia Water Rescue Championships • Leonid Teliga Single Handed Memorial Regattas • Janusz Sidło Memorial • CSI International Show Jumping Competition • Pole vault on the Pier • Amber Mile • Toyota Sopot Match Race • Polish Hill Climb Championship • ‘Round the Pier’ swimming competitions • Sopot Grand Prix beach run races • Sopot Catamaran Cup • Horse riding competition in Przywidz • Hynek Cup (Bielkówko – Kolbudy – Przywidz – Nowa Karczma – Szymbark – Szatarpy) - 45 - Poviat of Kartuzy Poviat of Nowy Dwór Poviat of Puck Poviat of Wejherowo • All-Polish Cross-Country Żukowo Race in Żukowo • Copernicus Open Chess Tournament in Kartuzy • Kashubian Championship in the Local Horse Cart [szlupa] Driving in Ostrzyce • Hey-Ho, as the Kashubians say – the Ostrzyce Tournament for Cart Drivers and Breeders of Cold- Blooded Horses in Kashubia • Horseback Rally along Daniel Chodowiecki’s Route, Sierakowice • Sports Tournament of Towns and Communes in Kartuzy • Pomeranian Sport Festival, Żukowo • International Stolem Cup Chess Festival, Kartuzy • All-Polish Family Football Tournament, Żukowo • International Junior Football Tournament, Żukowo • All-Polish 4 Wheel Drive Rally, ‘Kashubia by Night’, Ostrzyce • Kayak marathons, lakes of the Radunia Circle • Autumn Gbur, or Rich Farmers’ Run Race, Nowy Dwór Gdański • Grand Prix Polonia Landmark Cross Country Run Race, Sztutowo/ Stegna • All-Polish Chess Memorial of the ‘Stutthof Victims’, Sztutowo • ‘Amber Weight’, All-Polish Tournament in Weight Lifting, Nowy Dwór Gdański • M. Sucharski Chess Memorial, Sztutowo • All-Polish Chess Tournament to commemorate the Heroes of Westerplatte, in Stegna • ‘Flame’ Sports Olympics in Krynica Morska • Sports All Souls Day in Puck • Windsurfing Polish Junior Championships, Władysławowo • Football Baltic Cup, Władysławowo • Kuźnica Championships in Sand Castle Building • ‘Harpagan’ All of Extreme Rally, Wejherowo • Polish Firemen’s Race, under the formula of Jakub Wejher International Run Races in Wejherowo • All-Polish Tennis Classification Tournament, Reda • Season closing sailing race for the Drift Cup of the Wejherowo Commune Head Officer, • Polish Open Championship, class F5-E The most modern sports facility in the Metropolitan Area today is the sports hall in Gdynia. Photo: www.artdesign.net.pl
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