Polish Sports Congresses as a way of promotion and popularization of women's physical education and sport in the period of the Second Polish Republic

• Main Author: Teresa Drozdek-Małolepsza
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: PPHU Projack 2017-11-01
• Series: Physical Activity Review
• Subjects: women; sport; physical education; the second polish republic; sports congresses
• Online Access: http://www.physactiv.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/2017_22.pdf

In the interwar period of the 20th century the interest in women's physical education and sports movement in Poland increased. The issue of women's physical education and sport was a subject of debates of Polish sports congresses. An important role in formulating the assumptions and programme of the development of women's sport was played by the 2nd Polish Sports Congress (1927). The assumptions of sports congresses resulted in the activity of women's sections and clubs. Sports organizations and associations took intensified action to promote women's hygiene and health. Propaganda activities were reinvigorated in relation to women's physical education and sport through the organization of conferences, courses or camps. Women were active within the structures of sport in Poland, among others they sat on boards of sports associations and clubs. Departments for women's physical education and sport operated at the State Office of Physical Education and Military Training.