We are approaching the 91st Przegląd Sportowy Poll, selecting the athlete of the year 2025. The winner will be announced on Saturday, January 10th, during the ceremonial Sports Champions Gala, and among the nominees is Bartosz Zmarzlik – a speedway rider from ORLEN OIL MOTOR Lublin, who became the Individual World Champion for the sixth time last season.
For Bartosz Zmarzlik, this is his tenth nomination for the Przegląd Sportowy Poll in his career. The speedway rider received this prestigious trophy for the first time in 2017, while achieving his greatest success three years later. In a vote by fans from all over Poland, he convincingly defeated Robert Lewandowski and so far is the only time laureate of the entire Poll. Since then, Zmarzlik has consistently appeared in the top five best athletes in the country every year.
During this year’s Sports Champions Gala organized at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw, ten out of the twenty-five nominated athletes, who received the most votes in the first stage of voting, will be presented. Votes could be cast via SMS, paper coupons, and online. Online and SMS voting will close on January 9th at 12:00 PM. SMS voting, however, will resume when the Gala broadcast begins, which is on January 10th at 8:30 PM. This will be the only and final way to support your favorites in the Poll.
List of nominees in the 91st Przegląd Sportowy Poll:
- Agata Barwińska (sailing)
- Mateusz Biskup and Mirosław Ziętarski (rowing)
- Krzysztof Chmielewski (swimming)
- Zuzanna Cieślar (fencing)
- Agata Kaczmarska (boxing)
- Anna Puławska and Martyna Klatt (canoeing)
- Agnieszka Korneluk (volleyball)
- Aleksandra Król-Walas (snowboarding)
- Robert Kubica (motorsport)
- Wilfredo Leon (volleyball)
- Robert Lewandowski (football)
- Kamil Majchrzak (tennis)
- Natalia Maliszewska (short track)
- Miko Marczyk (motorsport)
- Aleksandra Mirosław (climbing)
- Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney (cycling)
- Ewa Pajor (football)
- Mateusz Ponitka (basketball)
- Aneta Rygielska (boxing)
- Władimir Siemirunnij (speed skating)
- Julia Szeremeta (boxing)
- Iga Świątek (tennis)
- Bartosz Zmarzlik (speedway)
- Klaudia Zwolińska (whitewater kayaking)
- Maria Żodzik (athletics)
The broadcast of the Sports Champions Gala begins at 8:30 PM on TVP1 (studio from 7:00 PM in TVP Sport).
The full Poll regulations are available HERE.
Marcin Rusewicz
