During the Lower Silesian Athletics Championships, the boys’ team from Gimnazjum Samorządowe nr 2 in Bolesławiec won the Swedish relay and qualified for the Polish Championships in Łódź, which will take place in two weeks.
After a fierce contest with teams from across the voivodeship, the relay team finished first (with a time of 2:08.35 s). The relay team consisted of: Joel Kusiciel – 100 m, Piotr Gadziński – 200 m, Kacper Popławski – 300 m, Mateusz Tofil – 400 m.
This is already the third relay team from GS 2 in the last five years to take part in the Polish Relay Championships. The team’s greatest success so far was the girls’ 4x100 m relay team’s third-place finish nationally in 2010.
As a team, the boys from GS 2 finished second in Lower Silesia. The following athletes won medals at the Lower Silesian Championships:
- Mateusz Tofil – gold medal in the 110 m hurdles (14.94 s)
- Kacper Popławski – silver medal in the 300 m hurdles (42.06 s)
- Tobiasz Burzyński – silver medal in the 2,000 m (6:11 s)
- Dominik Stec – bronze medal in the javelin throw (52.68 m).
The team was completed by: Szymon Laudański, Piotr Filistyński, Piotr Gadziński, Joel Kusiciel, Maciej Wilk, Krystian Karaban, Damian Biernacki, Jarosław Hutnik, Przemek Mienculewicz, Radosław Wąsik, Norbert Grabowy, Paweł Gadziński and Dawid Borysewicz. The team’s coach is
Tomasz Markowski.
(information: TM/ii)