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POLAND AT OLYMPICS
Poland first participated at the Olympic
Games in 1924, and has sent athletes to compete
in every Summer Olympic Games since then,
except for the 1984 Games, when they were part
of the Soviet-led boycott of the 1984 Summer
Olympics. Poland has also participated in
every Winter Olympic Games.
Polish athletes have won a total of 306
medals: 75 gold, 91 silver, 140 bronze. Poland is
the third most successful country
(after Hungary and Romania) of those who have
never hosted the Olympics.
Its most successful teams have been football
and volleyball. Poland ranks fifth all-time
in modern pentathlon, seventh in athletics, and
has also been successful in weightlifting, martial
arts and nordic skiing.
The Polish Olympic Committee was created in
1918 and recognized in 1919.

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