Next Wednesday, 25 May, as part of the nationwide “Athletics for Everyone!” programme, an athletics competition for fourth- to sixth-grade primary school pupils—Nestlé Cup qualifiers—will be held at the athletics stadium by the H. Sucharski Complex of General and Vocational Schools (6 Komuny Paryskiej Street in Bolesławiec). It starts at 3:30 p.m..

The organisers of the competition are the Ministry of Sport and Tourism, the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, the Polish Athletics Association, the Lower Silesian Athletics Association, Bolesławiec City Hall and MKS Bolesłavia.

The competition will begin with an exhibition 60 m hurdles race for women and men featuring Ewa Ochocka, Dominika Kwaszcz, Mateusz Tofil and other MKS Bolesłavia athletes.

In the 2015 season, Ewa Ochocka (pictured in the cover photo) won:

  • 1st place in the 60 m hurdles at the Polish Indoor Junior Championships in Toruń
  • 1st place in the 100 m hurdles at the Polish Junior Championships in Biała Podlaska
  • 3rd place in the 60 m at the Polish Indoor Junior Championships in Toruń
  • 4th place in the 400 m hurdles at the Polish Junior Championships in Biała Podlaska
  • 1st place in the 400 m hurdles at the Lower Silesian Junior Championships
  • 1st place in the 100 m hurdles at the Lower Silesian Junior Championships.

In 2015, Dominika Kwaszcz became Polish long jump champion and Lower Silesian champion in the 60 m hurdles. In the 2016 season, she achieved the qualifying standard for the European Championships in the long jump. In the 2015 season, Mateusz Tofil became Polish U16 high jump champion and Polish runner-up in the U16 110 m hurdles.

The competition programme for fourth- to sixth-grade primary school pupils will include events such as the 60 m, softball throw, 300 m, 600 m, standing long jump from a take-off zone, high jump and shot put.

The “Athletics for Everyone!” programme is an innovative concept for promoting athletics as a first-contact sport among children and young people and, at later stages, recruiting and selecting athletes for professional participation in selected events of the Queen of Sports. The Polish Athletics Association project was created by specialists, managers and coaches primarily to promote and popularise athletics, and the training programme they developed has been adapted to the needs and abilities of children at every stage of their development, enabling the proper organisation of classes.

The programme has been implemented in Gmina Bolesławiec since September 2014. More about the Nestlé Cup qualifiers can be found on the Bolesłavia website.

Justyna Serafińska-Gruman/ii