Jan Urbaniak is shown sitting with Christine Jennings at the 19.5 km BCT Gdynia Marathon with his blue rubber gloves on, just after applying his anti-chafing ointment.

There are great hopes for the young Polish swimmers. Andrzej Kowalski, President of Polish Swimming Union, said, “The BCT Gdynia Marathon is a great event, not only by the organizational means, but also in sporting sense. We need more races like this, especially if we are to prepare a strong national team for Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016.”

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