Sport kobiet w działalności Akademickiego Związku Sportowego w okresie II Rzeczypospolitej. Zarys dziejów
Women's Sport in the Activities of the Students' Sport Association in the Period of the Second Republic. Outline History

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to present women's sport in the activities of the Students' Sport Associa-tion (AZS) in the Second Republic. In interwar Poland, the strongest students' sport centres were, among others, the following: Cracow, Lviv, Poznan, Warsaw and Vilnius. Women actively participated in students' sport. They operated in the structures of AZS organization and management. Halina Konopacka was a member of the Technical Committee of the International Women’s Sports Federation. Female members of AZS practised, among others, sports games, athletics, skiing, swimming, fencing, tennis and rowing. They were successful in sport in the national and international arena. They represented Poland at the Olympic Games, Women’s World Games and Students’ World Championships. The most successful sportswomen were: Wanda Dubieńska (skiing, fencing, tennis), Jadwiga Jędrzejowska (tennis), Halina Konopacka and Stanis"awa Walasiewicz (athletics), as well as athletes of the Polish students' national basketball team.

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