Sporty ekstremalne

World record holder Aleksandra Mirosław won the gold medal at the Paris Games in time trial sport climbing. In the final, she defeated China's Lijuan Deng by 0.08 seconds. This is the first Polish gold in the French capital. Aleksandra Kałucka stood on the lowest step of the podium.more

An extreme swimmer is to brave the chilly waters of Loch Ness in a bid to raise money for a good cause. more

Coach of the Bayern Munich football club, Julian Nagelsmann on Monday said he was assertive that he would be back on the bench for its UEFA Champions League Group E game on Tuesday. The coach was away from the team for about two-weeks owing to COVID-19 infection.more

Aleksandra Bednarek from Łódź (Poland) defeated the English Channel yesterday and won the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. Previously, she had crossed the Catalina Channel and circled the New York Island of Manhattan.more

Foreigners climbed Mount Everest for the first time since Nepal’s government reopened the mountain after it was shut last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, despite recent coronavirus cases at its base camp.more

On February 22, Aleksander Doba died - it was announced today on the official Facebook profile of the Polish canoeist and traveler. In 2010 and again in 2013 he kayaked across the Atlantic Ocean westward under his own power. more

On December 13, 2019, the Polish diver Marcel Korkuś dived at an altitude of 6395 m ASL, setting an absolute world record in high-altitude diving. It was the first man ever diving at such a high altitude.more

The 40-year-old suffered the fatal accident after 276 kilometres of the day's ride. Unconscious when medics arrived he was helicoptered to hospital where his death was confirmed.more

A hanging chunk of ice the size of an apartment block has forced Polish daredevil Andrzej Bargiel to abandon his bid to ski down Mount Everest, he announced on his Facebook on Monday.more

Polish mountaineers discontinued the expedition to Lhotse (8,516 m), the fourth highest mountain in the world - the Polish Mountaineering Association announced today.more

A woman who was treated for breast cancer a year ago has become the first person to swim across the English Channel four times non-stop.more

Krystian Herba, a Rzeszów sportsman specializing in cycling trials, set the Guinness Record for the sixth time in the number of stairs climbed by bicycle. This time in the highest building in Berlin.more

Lhotse (8,516 m), the fourth highest mountain in the world, is the goal of the first unification expedition in 2019. It is to allow the selection of a group of Polish climbers who will try to enter K2 in winter 2020.more

While attempting to break the deep-diving record at Lake Garda, Italy, on Saturday, Polish Afghanistan veteran, Younger Warrant Officer Sebastian Marczewski died at the depth of 150 m below water level.more

A record 885 people climbed Everest in May this year, figures showed Tuesday, capping a deadly traffic-clogged season that also saw 11 climbers die on the world's highest mountain. more

Michal Marek, 36, from Poland, passed away while taking part in a dive at Malin Head, Co Donegal. more

There are 41 different teams with a total of 378 climbers who have been permitted to scale Everest during this year's spring climbing season. more

An adventurer from Grantham has become the first person to swim 1,780-miles around Great Britain.more

The climber Krzysztof Wielicki received the Princess Asturias Award at Oviedo. During the ceremony at the Campoamor theater, the King of Spain, Filip VI, noted that the Polish laureate is practicing one of the most difficult sports disciplines.more

The American Alpine Journal published a report on the January expedition of Tomasz Mackiewicz and Elisabeth Revol on Nanga Parbat (8 126 m).more

A Bear Grylls Adventure Park is coming to the UK. The £20 million park will feature the biggest high-ropes course in Europe.more

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Polish ski mountaineer Andrzej Bargiel is trying to become the first person to complete a ski descent of K2.more

Four months after the death of Tomasz Mackiewicz on Nanga Parbat, his climbing partner Elisabeth Revol has published a letter of thanks for saving her life.more

The Dakar Rally will take place in only one country for the first time in its history next season, with Peru confirmed as the sole host nation for the 2019 edition.more