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Polish-Estonian Sports Ties[muuda lähteteksti]

When Estonia gained and Poland regained their independence after the First World War, teams from both countries started taking part in international sports competitions. During the Interwar period, Poles and Estonians competed against each other in sports fairly frequently for the era. The most important mutual sports competitions were probably athletics tournaments which Estonia and Poland held together with Latvia. In the 1920s and 1930s, six athletics competitions took place between the teams of these three countries.

In May 1927, the first such tournament took place in Warsaw. This was also the first international athletics competition which Estonia participated in. Poland won the tournament with 142 points, Latvia received 96 points and Estonia remained in last place with 95 points. In 1929, a competition of the same format took place in Riga. A year later the tournament was held in Tallinn. Estonia and Poland were tied with 119 points each, while Latvia stayed in last place with 98 points. Poland won the tournament on individual first places (7-3).

Newspaper article on the 1930 Estonian-Latvian-Polish athletics competition. (Eesti Spordileht, June 27, 1930)

On June 28-29, 1931, a tripartite competition between the same teams took place in Wilno. Poland won the tournament, Estonia came in last place. The next tournament took place in July 1934 in Riga. Estonia had the lead after the first day of the competition, but in the end Poland managed to win with 134 points while Estonia came in second place with 129.5 points. In 1935, the last athletics competition between Estonia, Poland and Latvia took place in Tallinn at Kadriorg Stadium.

Plaque of the Polish-Estonian-Latvian tripartite athletic competition held in 1931. (Estonian Sports and Olympic Museum)

In 1938, two boxing competitions took place between Estonia and Poland. In Tallinn at the end of March, Poland won the first match with a score of 6:2. An article in the Estonian newspaper Päevaleht states that at the time, Poland was “first among European boxing nations” and that Estonians were already convinced of their defeat before the match. However, the result was not considered a disappointment, as Poland had defeated Italy, Norway and Denmark with the same score. Poland also won the second match, which took place on December 11 in Łódź, with a score of 5:3.

During the Interwar period, Estonia and Poland also competed twice in tennis. On June 1, 1930, Poland won the match 4:1. In August 1934, the Estonian tennis team made its debut in the Davis Cup, where they received Poland as their first opponent and lost 0:5.

Although Estonia lost its independence after the Second World War, sports ties between Estonians and Poles stayed intact. During that period, Estonians generally competed as part of the USSR team. For example, in the 1963 European Men's Basketball Championship in Wrocław, Poland, Estonians Jaak Lipso and Tõnno Lepmets were part of the winning Soviet team. (Poland came second in the tournament; USSR won the final match 61:45.) However, during the Cold War period there were also competitions in which Estonians could form their own national team. Poles also took part in some of them: for example, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the two teams competed against each other three times in basketball competitions which took place in Tallinn. In 1968, the Estonian team won the tournament with Poland staying in third place after Georgia. The following year, Estonia won a similar competition again, Poland coming in last place this time after Latvia and Finland. However, in the tournament held in 1970, Poland managed to defeat the Estonian team 92:91 after the second overtime.

Estonian and Polish national football teams have met 9 times, all of these having been friendly matches. During the Interwar period, three matches were held. In 1923, Poland defeated Estonia 4:1 in Tallinn. In the same city in 1925, the two teams settled for a 0:0 draw, and the following year in Warsaw, Poland won 2:0. The last game between the two teams took place in 2012, when Estonia managed to defeat Poland for the first time in history with Konstantin Vassiljev scoring the only goal in the 92nd minute.

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