At the last three Olympic Games, Poland have won two medals each time in track and field. But they are ready to climb way up the table as the final preparations take place for the start of tomorrow’s athletics programme in Rio.
Poland finished top of the medals table at the Amsterdam 2016 European Athletics Championships and will be looking to carry that momentum to Brazil.
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Back chasing a hat-trick of golds is shot-putter Tomasz Majewski, 34, after his successes in Beijing and London, and while he might not have had the best of summers so far - he is 17th in the world rankings - three of his fellow field eventers will arrive at the Olympic Stadium as favourites to top the podium.
Since winning silver in the hammer four years ago, Anita Wlodarczyk has progressed to take total control of the event, to such an extent that she could occupy all top 10 places on the world list this summer.
That is how far she is in front of the rest, with the 10 leading throws of 2016, from her best of 80.26m in Cetniewo last month to her 76.61m in Montreuil-sous-Bois in June.
Her closet rival, with 75.77m, is Betty Heidler, the German she replaced as world record-holder in 2014 when she threw 79.58m, a distance she took to 81.08m 12 months ago.
Incredibly, Wlodarczyk, 31, has the seven leading times in history, with four of them - that 80.26m, 79.61m, 79.48m and 79.45m - from this outdoor season.
Fresh from winning her third European title in Amsterdam in July, this gold would complete the set to go with her two world crowns. It could be a one-woman show again.
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And her teammate finds himself in a similar position.
In the men’s hammer, fellow Pole Pawel Fajdek, 27, is also fresh from European glory in Amsterdam and he, too, is the dominating force of the event this year.
Just like Wlodarczyk, he could also have a top 10 of his own, with his leading marks going from 81.87m in Bydgoszcz in June to 80.10m in Szczecin earlier that month.
Belarusian Ivan Tsikhan, the European silver medallist, is next in the rankings with 80.04m but Fajdek thrives on these occasions, having won the last two world titles in Moscow and Beijing.
Piotr Malachowski is another Pole with a new gold from Amsterdam after his discus triumph with 67.06m, and it’s his 68.15m from Warsaw in May that has put him No. 1 in the world all summer.
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Malachowski won silver in Beijing 2008 but when he returned to the Chinese capital 12 months ago, he left with gold as he became world champion with 67.40m. Now the Olympic title awaits.
Back at the Games in Sydney 2000, Poland won four golds in athletics and they arrive in Brazil after a brilliant European Athletics Championships, where they topped the table with 12 medals, made up of six golds, five silvers and a bronze.
Along with Wlodarczyk, Fajdek and Malachowski, Adam Kszczot retained his 800m title with teammate Marcin Lewandowski in second, Angelika Cichocka took the 1500m and Robert Sobera won the pole vault.
It means one thing is for sure - that over the 10 days of action in Rio, it will take something special to stop the Polish team from being the leading European athletics nation at these Games of the XXXI Olympiad.