Unia Tarnów was a Polish multi-sports club , based in Tarnów , Poland, whose legacy is continued by several separate club still carrying the same name.
22-417: Unia Tarnów can refer to: Unia Tarnów (basketball) Unia Tarnów (football) Unia Tarnów (handball) Unia Tarnów (speedway) Unia Tarnów (sports club) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Unia Tarnów . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
44-412: A football club, which continues to play to this day, and athletics club. The club is best known for its motorcycle speedway team, founded in 1957, becoming independent in 2001. Over time many sections of the club have become independent entities in their own right but keeping the historical name. Since the last re-organisation in 2010 all sections of the club had become independent with the exception of
66-569: A university sports games into the World Festival of Youth and Students from 1947 to 1962, including one separate, unofficial games in 1954. This event principally catered for Eastern European countries. After the closure of the CIE and the creation of the first UIE-organised games, FISU came into being in 1949 and held its own first major student sport event the same year in the form of the 1949 Summer International University Sports Week . The Sports Week
88-657: The 2021 edition scheduled to be held in Lucerne , Switzerland was also cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The idea of a global international sports competition between student-athletes pre-dates the 1949 formation of the International University Sports Federation (FISU), which now hosts the Universiade, and even the first World University Games held in 1923. English peace campaigner Hodgson Pratt
110-403: The football and athletics sections. By 2013 only the football club was left and had therefore de facto ceased to exist as a multi-sports club. The football club did however create a futsal section in 2019. The athletics was one of the founding sections of the club in 1928, dating its roots to before that. In the inaugural year the country was represented by its athlete Zdzisław Nowak at
132-479: The 1930s before having its final edition in 1947. A separate group organised an alternative university games in 1939 in Vienna , in post- Anschluss Germany. The onset of World War II ceased all major international student sport activities and the aftermath also led to division among the movement, as the CIE was disbanded and rival organisations emerged. The Union Internationale des Étudiants (UIE) incorporated
154-890: The Olympic Games in Paris. After restructuring in 2010 it was one of only two sections (the other was football) left in the club. The section was sold to a state school in 2013. The football section currently plays in the fourth tier of the Polish football league . The basketball section has produced many well-known players such as Jarosław Jechorek , Radosław Hyży, William Brantley, Toree Morris, Marcin Stokłosa, Wojciech Majchrzak, Bartosz Sarzało, Iwo Kitzinger, Wojciech Żurawski, Lewis Lofton, Chaz Carr, Dražen Tomić, Łukasz Seweryn, Brandun Hughes, Michael Ansley, Piotr Szczotka, Adrian Małecki and Piotr Szybilski. The fencing section came into existence when
176-478: The cancellation of an Italy-based event. At the start of the 20th century, Jean Petitjean of France began attempting to organise a "University Olympic Games". After discussion with Pierre de Coubertin , the founder of the modern Olympic Games, Petitjean was convinced not to use the word "Olympic" in the tournament's name. Petitjean, and later the Confederation Internationale des Etudiants (CIE),
198-417: The club was part of the parent sports club. It reverted to the "Unia" name in 2021 but remained a separate club. The motorcycle speedway section are the most successful section of the club, having been multiple time champions. The swimming section was active as an independent club since re-organisation of the parent club in 2010, but only lasted until 2012 before dropping the historic name. Between 1969-1979
220-524: The first edition held in Turin in 1959, only 8 sports were in the sporting program (athletics, basketball, fencing, gymnastics, swimming, tennis, volleyball and water polo). The first sport to be considered optional was diving, which was added to the second edition held in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1961. In addition, optional events were added in basketball and volleyball, when women's tournaments were played. In Porto Alegre 1963
242-527: The inclusion of Brazil, Japan and the United States among the competing nations. The increased participation ultimately led to the establishment of the Universiade as the primary global student sport championship. Not recognized by FISU as Universiade or World University Games: Unlike other sporting events, the World University Games are recognized for the flexibility in their program, as since
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#1733094138769264-417: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Unia_Tarnów&oldid=1072935114 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Unia Tarn%C3%B3w (basketball) The club was stablished in 1928 as
286-460: The local club dating back to 1955 joined the parent club Unia in 1961. The section was disbanded in 1976 due to cost-cutting, although attempts to carry on the legacy of the club under different names as an independent club lasted until 1983. Unia also has a futsal team administered by the football section of the club. Founded in 2019, it is the youngest section of the club. It was founded in 1960 as an independent youth club. Between 1978-2010
308-688: The second edition held in 1961, it has been up to the Organizing Committee and the National University Sports Federation of the host country to choose sports or optional competitions. according to their local reality and demands, there is a list of mandatory sports that are defined by the International University Sports Federation and could be reviewed at the end of each edition.As the event also serves as World University Championship in those sports. At
330-466: The section in total; broke 153 national records, won 236 nation championship medals, of which 101 were gold; and won 3 medals at the Universiade . Universiade The FISU World University Games , formerly the Universiade , is an international multi-sport event , organized for university athletes by the International University Sports Federation (FISU). The former name is a portmanteau of
352-518: The split), but all respective nations from the groups took part. The FISU-organised Universiade became the direct successor to this competition, maintaining the biennial format into the inaugural 1959 Universiade . It was not until the 1957 World University Games that the Soviet Union began to compete in FISU events. That same year, what had previously been a European competition became a truly global one, with
374-520: The woman's basketball was dropped from the sporting program. In 1967, the third World University Judo Championship was held in Tokyo and was integrated into the fifth edition of the Summer Universiade as an extra sport, thus gaining the status of an optional sport and thus inaugurating a new type of sport at the event, which is that of the optional sport. Therefore, the sport with this status is not part of
396-611: The words "University" and " Olympiad ". The Universiade is referred to in English as the World University Games or World Student Games ; however, this latter term can also refer to competitions for sub-University grades students. In July 2020 as part of a new branding system by the FISU, it was stated that the Universiade was to be officially branded as the FISU World University Games . The most recent summer event
418-610: Was an early advocate of such an event, proposing (and passing) a motion at the 1891 Universal Peace Congress in Rome to create a series of international student conferences in rotating host capital cities, with activities including art and sport. This did not come to pass, but a similar event was created in Germany in 1909 in the form of the Academic Olympia . Five editions were held from 1909 to 1913, all of which were hosted in Germany following
440-487: Was held biennially until 1955. Like the CIE's games before it, the FISU events were initially Western-led sports competitions. Division between the largely Western European FISU and Eastern European UIE eventually began to dissipate among broadened participation at the 1957 World University Games . This event was not directly organised by either group, instead being organised by Jean Petitjean in France (which remained neutral to
462-651: Was the 2021 Summer World University Games held in Chengdu , China from 28 July – 8 August 2023, after being postponed three times due to the COVID-19 pandemic . It effectively replaced the 2023 Summer World University Games , that was set to be held in Yekaterinburg , Russia. It was cancelled after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine . The most recent winter event was the 2023 Winter World University Games held in Lake Placid , United States from 11 to 21 January 2023, after
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#1733094138769484-409: Was the first to build a series of international events, beginning with the 1923 International Universities Championships . This was followed by the renamed 1924 Summer Student World Championships a year later and two further editions were held in 1927 and 1928. Another name change resulted in the 1930 International University Games . The CIE's International University Games was held four more times in
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