ActiveJet Team has established strategic cooperation with Michał Kwiatkowski and his Toruń-based Copernicus Cycling Academy. The Toruń-based cycling club has become a resource base for the ActiveJet Team. The mission for both Copernicus and ActiveJet Team is to promote all forms of cycling among children, teenagers and adults and to join forces in the delivery of training for all junior categories. The two partners will put emphasis on activities designed to promote safe biking.
In January 2014, the ActiveJet Team established strategic cooperation with the Copernicus Cycling Academy. The Toruń-based cycling club has become a resource base for the ActiveJet Team. This means that the most talented junior team cyclists from Toruń and the Toruń School of Sports Championship will be able to continue their sport careers as part of the team managed by Piotr Kosmala.
“I am very pleased to have such a good partner as the ActiveJet Team. It is important for Copernicus to serve as a resource base for a professional cycling team. I want young cyclists to see prospects for their future, and this is helped by our close cooperation with a professional team. ActiveJet Team cyclists will attend classes at Copernicus, and we're planning joint training and consultation sessions. I know Piotr Bieliński and I strongly support his work for the Polish cycling community. I hope that ActiveJet Team will take part in the Tour de France race in a few seasons’ time,” commented Michał Kwiatkowski.
The primary goal of the cooperation between the ActiveJet Team and the Copernicus Cycling Academy is to provide comprehensive training to junior cyclists. The partners are also planning to work to promote cycling in Poland among various age groups, to organise large-scale cycling events and to provide education in road biking safety to both bikers and motorists.
”I'm a big enthusiast of cycling, also because I've decided once again to invest in this sport and build a professional team, this time on a larger scale. As the ActiveJet Team, we want to be a cycling power in Poland and to take part in the world's greatest races. It's particularly important in professional sport practice to manage your team properly from the very beginning so that a person joining a team such as the ActiveJet Team has the right habits and is well prepared both physically and psychologically. The idea behind the cooperation of the ActiveJet Team and Michał Kwiatkowski’s Copernicus Cycling Academy is to correctly prepare the future elite of Polish cycling. By joining forces, we can do a lot for cycling to become the flagship sport for Poland and for young cyclists to be provided with appropriate conditions for training," Piotr Bieliński, president of ACTION S.A, the owner of the ActiveJet brand.
The ActiveJet Team and the Copernicus Cycling Academy will join forces in a variety of activities designed to promote cycling.
Plans include, for example, a joint series of mass events and a trip to the Tour de France race with cycling fans.
Information on ActiveJet Team
The professional cycling team has been created by Piotr Kosmala and Piotr Baliński, president of ACTION S.A. The team is made up of the most talented young Polish cyclists and a number of experienced ones. Sławomir Chrzanowski, Paweł Brylowski, Tomasz Mickiewicz, Paweł Franczak, Emanuel Piaskowy, Łukasz Bodnar, Michał Podlaski, David Muntaner, Arkadiusz Owsian, Jesus Ezquerra, Mario Gonzalez, and Konrad Dąbkowski. The team’s coach is Jakub Pieniążek.
For more information, visit www.activejet-team.com
Information on Michał Kwiatkowski’s Copernicus Cycling Academy
COPERNICUS was founded in September 2013 as an initiative of the Toruń cycling community. One of the originators of the Club and its main founder is Michał Kwiatkowski, the current Poland Champion and World Team Champion. COPERNICUS will be developing a project originally created by Michał Kwiatkowski and his former coaches, called Michał Kwiatkowski’s Cycling Academy. The mission of the COPERNICUS Cycling Academy is to develop and promote all forms of cycling among children and teenagers and to provide training to these age groups in accordance with the latest European and world standards, as well as to find the most talented cyclists in Poland. The Club’s strategy is to cooperate with all cycling institutions and organisations in and outside Poland. Since the early days of the Club’s existence, the president of the Polish Cycling Federation, Mr Wacław Skarul, has provided his honorary patronage to the Club. COPERNICUS has close relations with the Toruń-based School of Sports Championship, which is prepared to welcome and welcomes young cyclists from all parts of Poland.
For more information, please visit www.copernicus-cycling.pl
Information on Michał Kwiatkowski
He comes from the village of Działyń near the town of Golub-Dobrzyń. He finished the Toruń-based School of Sports Championship and raced in the Pacific Toruń Cycling Club. His first success came in 2007, when he won the European Junior Championship in a simultaneous-start road race and the European Junior Vice-Champion Title in an individual time trial. He is also the winner of the International Cycling Race for Grudziąc City Mayor's Cup and the Junior Peace Race. In 2008, Michał Kwiatkowski, also known as Kwiatek (the Polish word for ‘flower’) won the World Junior Championship in a time trial in Cape Town, South Africa. A few years later, in 2013, he won 11th place in the Tour de France race (3rd place in the Junior category), the Poland Road Race Championship, the Individual Time Trial Vice-Champion Title and, at the end of the season, the Team Time Trial World Championship as part of the OPQS team. Currently, Michał Kwiatkowski is one of the best young cyclists in Poland and the world. He is ranked in 18th place in the UCI WorldTour ranking.
Information on ACTION S.A.
The ACTION S.A Group is a leading distributor of IT, audio-visual and household equipment and appliances in Poland, and a major manufacturer of computer equipment. It has been listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange since 2006. ACTION S.A. distributes products made by the world's major manufacturers and produces IT equipment under its own brands: Actina (desktop computers and servers), ActiveJet (consumables, lighting products and power supply products). The ACTION S.A Group is made of up Devil GmBH, a company operating in Germany; Sferis, a nationwide chain of stores offering IT, audio-visual and household equipment and appliances in Poland; plus gram.pl, a social networking portal and an online shop for computer game players.
ACTION S.A has been involved in sporting initiatives in Poland for many years. It sponsored Legia Warszawa, the Warsaw football club. It also supports athletics and local sport events.
The company has been supporting Polish cycling for more than 10 years now, as the title sponsor of professional cycling teams led by Piotr Kosmala. The cyclists managed by Piotr Kosmala have won races worldwide. In 2003, Cezary Zamana, representing the Action nVidia Mróz team won the Tour de Pologne race and is the last Polish cyclist to do so.
For more information, please visit www.action.pl.
