Sport is a discipline, in which Bydgoszcz is one of the leaders. Modern infrastructure, world standard events, and successes of competitors - that's how sport in Bydgoszcz can be characterised.

Sportspeople

The pride of fans from the region is the sportspeople of Bydgoszcz, who won almost 10% of all medals during the summer Olympic Games for Poland! Gold, silver and bronze medals - 25 in total - won by rowers, boxers, athletes, kayakists, cyclists, weight-lifters, and football players. Medals at World and European Championships were also won by gymnasts, shooters, volleyball players and speedway racers. One can familiarise oneself with the detailed history of these successes at the Bydgoszcz Sport Gallery. Right after the opening in 2009, the museum had 774 cups and 40,000 photographs - this was the biggest sports collection in Poland!

Infrastructure
 
To practise the highest world standard sport, excellent infrastructure facilities are necessary. The sports and entertainment hall "Łuczniczka" in Bydgoszcz is one of the most modern facilities of this type in Europe. The stands of the hall constructed in 2002 feature over 8,000 seats for fans!

Another facility Bydgoszcz residents are proud of is the "Zawisza" Stadium. After thorough modernisation in 2008, the athletic and football stadium can seat 20,500 spectators, including almost 7,000 under a roof. The building under the new stand features: conference rooms, restaurant, biological regeneration rooms, and changing rooms. As the only one in Poland, the facility satisfies the standards required by the International Association of Athletics Federations confirmed in the First Class certificate! The "Zawisza" Stadium satisfies also technical and organisational requirements of the PZPN Polish Football Association, UEFA and FIFA.

 
The speedway stadium of the Polonia Sports Club in Bydgoszcz and the regatta course in Brdyujście District are arenas of the international sports struggle. Bydgoszcz is friendly also towards amateur sportspeople: tennis courts, shooting ranges, modern and illuminated basketball playing fields and football pitches, a ski slope, a skate park, sports halls, climbing walls, go-kart racetrack, swimming pools, a hippodrome ...

Events

Thanks to the sports events held in the city on the Brda River, Bydgoszcz is famous among fans of many sports disciplines. With an undeclining interest, speedway fans from all over the world watch the final struggle of speedway racers in the Grand Prix competitions, which have been held in Bydgoszcz since 1998. Huge emotions are aroused also by the Criterium of Aces of Polish Speedway Leagues, which traditionally opens the speedway season on the Polish tracks.

Bydgoszcz, called the capital of athletics in Poland, is also famous among the fans of "the queen of sport". The most important events held in the city include the IAAF World Junior Championships 2008. Almost 2,500 competitors from 180 countries participated in this event! Up to this day, this has been the biggest sports event held in Poland. The best athletes of the world are guests of Bydgoszcz also thanks to numerous meetings, e.g. the European Athletics Festival and Pedros Cup - pole-vault and high jump struggle.

 
The most interesting events held at the "Łuczniczka" Hall in Bydgoszcz include: women's volleyball tournament Word Grand Prix 2006, European Women's Basketball Championships 2009, men's EuroBasket 2009, men's volleyball World League matches, as well as struggle of top tennis women players during Fed Cup 2010.

Additionally, Bydgoszcz was the venue of 11 international matches of the men's national team A in football and several in volleyball. The annual regatta is getting more and more renowned - Great Regatta for the Cup of the Brda River - with the participation of famous rowing teams from Cambridge and Oxford.

All domestic events, among others for Polish champion titles, held in the city are impossible to mention here. Even some league competitions have become peculiar holidays. The derby duels of speedway racers from the local Polonia Sports Club and the team of Apator Toruń are fully booked. Other thousands of spectators watch the "black sport" struggle on TV screens.