The multiple Polish champion is dead. Shocking news from the world of sport
Very sad news came from the basketball environment. Jan Lewandowski, a longtime player and coach of Górnik Wałbrzych, died.
The memory of the deceased coach Jan Lewandowski was celebrated with a moment of silence before the Saturday match of Górnik Książ Wałbrzych with Trefl Sopot. The Wałbrzych recorded a very valuable victory that day, winning with the favorite 83:75.
Jan Lewandowski is dead. Koszykarski Górnik Wałbrzych in mourning
Lewandowski was highly valued in the basketball environment in Wałbrzych. As we read on the Górnik profile on Facebook, “his passion, devotion and steadfast faith in the team forever enrolled in our history and in our hearts. He was not only an outstanding trainer, but above all a wonderful man – authority, teacher and friend.”
“Jan Lewandowski was associated with white and blue for his youth. First as a player and later a coach. In 1979 he reached with Górnik for the Polish junior championship. He repeated a year later. He repeated a long-time assistant and the first coach of the senior team. In 1988 he led the miner to the second Polish champion Lewandowski express words of the deepest compassion, “we read in the text on the official website of PZKosz.
It is worth adding that Górnik Wałbrzych returned to the salons of Polish basketball after many years. The club existing in 1946, from the very beginning of its existence, had a basketball section. In May last year, after a 15 -year break, Wałbrzych was again among the best teams in the country. Under the leadership of coach Andrzej Adamek, Górnik is one of the revelations of the games. In addition to league playing, the most worthy of recognition, the Wałbrzych team reached for the lasting 2024/25 for the Polish Cup.
Jan Lewandowski died on April 26.
