Bartosz Kurek

Bartosz Kurek is a Polish professional volleyball player who plays as an opposite spiker and captains the Poland national team. Born on 29 August 1988 in Wałbrzych and raised in Nysa, he began in a Nysa team alongside his father Adam Kurek, also a volleyball player, and rose through ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle to PGE Skra Bełchatów, where he won three Polish championships. He later played in Russia, Italy, Japan and Turkey. With Poland he won the 2009 and 2023 European Championships and the 2018 World Championship, where he was named most valuable player, and he has played at four Olympic Games from London 2012 to Paris 2024, taking silver in Paris. In 2019 he became the first volleyball player voted Polish Sports Personality of the Year.