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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Agnieszka Karpiesiuk, Agnieszka Siwek, Andrzej Bade ski, Andrzej Zieli ski (athlete), Aneta Lemiesz, Anna Guzowska, Anna Kie basi ska, Anna W odarczyk, Barbara Janiszewska, Celina Jesionowska, Daniel D browski, Daria Korczy ska, Dariusz Ku, Dorota J drusi ska, Edmund Borowski, Edward Romanowski, Ewa Kasprzyk (athlete), Ewa K obukowska, Ewa Pisiewicz, Ewelina Klocek, Gerard Gramse, Gra yna Prokopek, Grzegorz Zaj czkowski, Halina Gorecka, Irena Szewi ska, Irena Sznajder, Jacek Roszko, Jan Balachowski, Jan Werner (athlete), Jaros aw Kaniecki, Jerzy Pietrzyk, Joanna Kocielnik, Joanna Smolarek, Jolanta Janota, Kacper Koz owski, Kamil Kry ski, Krzysztof Zwoli ski, Leszek Dunecki, Marcin J drusi ski, Marcin Marciniszyn, Marcin Nowak (athlete), Marcin Urba, Marian Dudziak, Marian Foik, Marian G sicki, Marian Woronin, Maria Pi tkowska, Marika Popowicz, Marta Chrust-Ro ej, Marta Jeschke, Ma gorzata Pskit, Monika Bejnar, Patryk Dobek, Piotr Balcerzak, Piotr Haczek, Piotr Klimczak, Piotr Rysiukiewicz, Przemys aw Rogowski, Rafa Wieruszewski, Robert Kubaczyk, Robert Ma kowiak, Ryszard Pilarczyk, Ryszard Podlas, Stanis awa Walasiewicz, Stanis aw Gr dzi ski, Stanley D. Jaworski, Tadeusz Cuch, Tadeusz Jaworski, Teresa Ciep y, Tomasz Czubak, Tomasz J drusik, Waldemar Korycki, Weronika Wedler, Wies aw Maniak, W adys aw Dobrowolski, Zbigniew Jaremski, Zenon Licznerski, Zenon Nowosz, Zuzanna Radecka, ukasz Chy a. Excerpt: Stanis awa Walasiewicz, also known as Stefania Walasiewicz, Stanis awa Walasiewiczowna (see Polish name) and Stella Walsh (3 April 1911 - 4 December 1980) was a Polish athlete, who became a women's Olympic champion. It was later learned that Walasiewicz had ambiguous genitalia and was intersex. Walasiewicz was born on 3 April 1911 in Wierzchownia (now in Brodnica County), Congress Poland. Her family emigrated to the United States when she was only three months old. Her father, Julian Walasiewicz, settled in Cleveland, where he found a job as a steel mill worker. Her family called her Stasia, a common Polish diminutive of her Christian name, which later gave birth to the American version of her name, Stella. She started her athletic career in a public school in Cleveland. Fast and agile, in 1927 she easily won the competition for a place in the American Olympic team started by the Cleveland Press newspaper. However, Walasiewicz was not an American citizen and could not obtain citizenship under the age of 21. The success of Halina Konopacka, a Polish athlete who won gold in the discus throw at the 1928 Summer Olympics, inspired Walasiewicz to join the local branch of Soko, a Polish sports and patriotic organization active among the Polish diaspora. During the Pan-Slavic meeting of the Soko movement in Pozna, she scored her first major international victories. She won five gold medals: in running for 60, 100, 200 and 400 metres, as well as long jump. She was asked to stay in Poland and join the Polish national athletic team; she also continued to run in various American challenges and games. In the late 1920s, she was already a well-known athlete. As an amateur, she was also working as a clerk in Cleveland. While still not a U.S. citizen, Walasiewicz did participate in, and won, numerous American national championships, usually under the name of Stella Walsh. For her part in interstate athletic championships, the city of Cleveland awarded her a car. She was finally
