Skiing competition in the giant slalom of the mining industry - Knurów - Szczygłowice o...

The mining industry's ski competition in giant slalom, organized at the Cieńków Ski Station in Wisła, has already become a tradition. This year's edition was held under the honorary patronage of the Government Plenipotentiary for the restructuring of the hard coal mining industry, Secretary of State at the Ministry of State Assets, Adam Gawęda. The Minister personally honored us with his presence, supported the players, presented prizes and congratulated not only the best ones.

The competition of the competitors taking part in the competition was accompanied, just like last year, by the PGG Family town, where the program partners presented themselves. There were also partners who helped organize the competition, including GSU S.A. GSU Ubezpieczeniowa Sp. z o. o., or SUPERPOLISA GSU Sp. z o. o.. There were animations for the youngest and slightly older ones. There were performances by a mining orchestra and a highlander band. There was no shortage of emotions not only among the players, but also among the fans and supporters of the event participating in numerous competitions and games with attractive prizes.

25 teams from mines belonging to PGG and JSW took part in Saturday's competition. For the first time, an open category was organized, in which everyone could take part and try their hand at the slalom route.

Ultimately, the first team place, cups and medals were won by the representatives of JSW S.A. KWK Knurów Szczygłowice. The second team place was won by the players of Kopalnia PGG S.A. KWK ROW I, and the third one - PGG S.A. KWK ROW II.

The fastest competitor among the employees turned out to be Pająk Tomasz - a representative of JSW (Budryk Mine) with a time of 27.21 seconds. The fastest woman was Mrs. Stoppel Danuta, also from JSW S.A. (KWK Knurów Szczygłowic) with a time of 35.37. The winners received commemorative cups and attractive prizes. Fastest Competitor and Female Competitor min. a week's stay in NAT hotels and skiing. The youngest competitor (Bąk Karolina) and the oldest competitor (Mazurek Andrzej) of the competition also received awards and cups. They both represented JSW S.A. KWK Borynia-Zofiówka RUCH BORYNIA.

Two surprise prizes were drawn among all competitors participating in the competition - skis and a car for the weekend with a full tank of fuel.

All those who achieved the best times, thanks to the partners of this year's competition, received very attractive prizes, including stays in NAT hotels and recreation centers, skis, Q&Q and Bisset watches, 4F backpacks and bandanas, and shopping vouchers for 4Faces stores, amber jewelry and coal, power banks, headphones and pendrives.

The players received awards from, among others: deputy minister Adam Gawęda, president of Polska Grupa Górnicza Tomasz Rogala, vice-president of PGG Jerzy Janczewski, president of Holding KW Leszek Słaboń, president of NAT Lucjan Karasiewicz and vice-president of NAT Aleksander Wierzba.

The partners of this year's competition, without whom the event would not be possible, were:

NAT – owner of hotels and recreation centers in Poland, as well as the Cieńków Ski Station in Wisła, where the competition takes place and the organizer of the event
Polska Grupa Górnicza S.A. from Katowice
WĘGLOKOKS Energia Sp. z o. o.
GSU Ubezpieczeniowa Sp. z o. o. from Gliwice
SUPERPOLISA GSU Sp. z o. o. from Gliwice
Górnośląska Spółka Brokerska Sp. z o. o. from Gliwice
GSU S.A. from Gliwice
Haldex S.A. from Katowice
COIG S.A. from Katowice
MARAT Sp. z o. o. from Rybnik
Transport Company Łubik Jarosław Łubik from Rybnik
TRAKT Sp. z o. o. from Zabrze
The official representative of Bisset in Poland is MR Minkina from Katowice
Coal Mining Museum in Zabrze
TAMBER coal and amber workshop
JSW IT Systems Sp. z o. o. from Jastrzębie Zdrój
KOK Group Sp. z o. o. from Zabrze
Wawel S.A. from Krakow
Renanault Wektor from Bielsko-Biała
Signal Iduna from Katowice
Auto Boss from Bielsko Biała and Chorzów
Silesian Shared Services Center
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