Medallists of the 1st Summer Student World Championships in Warsaw, 1924: Józef Jaworski and Stefan Kostrzewski.
Women’s university champions in basketball, Paris 1937. Standing from the left: Helena Woynarowska, Halina Bruszkiewicz, Irena Brzustowska, Zdzisława Wiszniewska-Bednarek, Wanda Gąsiorowska, Zofia Wardyńska, sitting from the left: Jadwiga Batiukówna, Irena Jaśnikowska, Jadwiga Bąkowska.
Silver medallists in basketball, Paris 1937. From the left: Jarogniew Kasprzak, Jarosław Śmigielski, Marceli Czaplicki, Ludomir Pawłowski, Zenon Różycki, Stefan Gendera (all AZS Poznań).
Mirosława Kratochwilówna, AZS Warszawa, best swimmer of pre-WWII era, multiple national 100 and 400 m champion. Winner of 100 m event (1:15.3) at at International University Games in Monaco, 1939.
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championships in summer disciplines winning a total of sixty-five medals, as well as seven places on the podium in winter disciplines. The outbreak of World War II put a halt to the operation of the Akademicki Związek Sportowy. The fortunes of the organisation members coincided with those of hundreds of thousands of young Polish men and women. Władysław Twardo, top AZS Warszawa hockey and handball athlete, remembers: When the Nazi hordes took hold of Warsaw after a month-long siege, and the defendants’ heroic resistance, AZS members began to arrive in the
History of the Akademicki Związek Sportowy (AZS)