top division. Astoria Bydgoszcz – men's basketball team playing in Polish Basketball League, the country's top division (as of 2022–23). Bydgoszcz Archers – American football team playing in Polish Football League, the country's top division. Pałac Bydgoszcz – women's volleyball team playing in Polish Women's Volleyball League, the country's top division. BKS Visła Bydgoszcz – men's volleyball team playing in Polish Volleyball League, the country's top division. KKP Bydgoszcz – women's football team playing in Ekstraliga, the country's top division. Chemik Bydgoszcz – men's football team playing in the country's lower league. Polonia Bydgoszcz – speedway team, seven-time Polish League champions (lately in 2002) and three-time European Speedway Club Champions' (lately in 2001) and football team, which played in the top tier in the 1950s and 1960s. Zawisza Bydgoszcz – football team, which played in the past in the country's top flight, most recently in 2015, currently playing in the lower league. RTW Bydgostia Bydgoszcz – Rowing (sport) Bydgostia Regional Rowing Association was founded on 4 December 1928. The club was A Team Polish Champion in the following years: 1938, 1966, 1967, 1970 and for the successive seventeen years from 1993 to 2009. Gwiazda Bydgoszcz – men's table tennis team playing in Superliga, the country's top division. The club is also successfully competing in table tennis Europe Cup. Sports facilities Łuczniczka, Show and Fair Arena Sisu Arena, a closed indoor arena Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium Polonia Stadium Hala Torbyd, a closed indoor arena Sports events Athletics 2003 European Athletics U23 Championships 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics 2010 IAAF World Cross Country Championships 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships 2016 World Junior Championships in Athletics 2017 European Athletics U23 Championships 2019 European Team Championships European Athletics Festival Bydgoszcz (annual event part of the European Permit Meetings circuit) Speedway Grand Prix of Poland: (1998–1999, 2001–2009) Grand Prix of Europe: (2000) Mieczysław Połukard Criterium of Polish Speedway Leagues Aces (1951–1960, since 1982) Team sports Eurobasket 2009 Women's European Volleyball Championships 2009 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup Politics Bydgoszcz constituency Members of Polish Sejm 2007–2011 elected from Bydgoszcz constituency: Members of Polish Senate 2007–2011 elected from Bydgoszcz constituency: Zbigniew Pawłowicz, Civic Platform Jan Rulewski, Civic Platform International relations Twin towns and friendship relations Legends It is said that Pan Twardowski spent some time in the city of Bydgoszcz, where, in his memory, a figure was recently mounted in a window of a tenement, overseeing