It’s a mythic event organized since 2009 to honor the youngest Polish Olympic champion. The competition has gone a long way, ba metamorphosis. It went from being a mythic event held on the side field of the capital’s SKRA, to one of the world’s biggest mythic events. 

In 2022, the organizational professionalism was recognized and the Silesia Kamila Skolimowska Memorial was incorporated into the ranks of the DIAMOND League! This is the first in the Polish history of a mythionship of this rank. Only the Olympic Games and the World Championships are higher.

Since 2018. The Kamila Skolimowska Memorial is organized at the Silesian Stadium, which, after modernization and adaptation for athletics competitions of the highest rank, has become the “home” of the Polish Queen of Sports. During the first Memorial held at the Silesian Stadium, as many as 41,200 spectators sat in the stands of the legendary “Witches’ Cauldron” in Chorzów – the second largest number of athletics fans in a stadium in Poland since the legendary Poland-USA match in 1958! 

The level of the Memorial’s organization has been repeatedly complimented and praised. Therefore, the world athletics federation – World Athletics – included the competition in the prestigious World Athletics Continental Tour Gold series. Higher in the hierarchy was only the Diamond League.

Kamila Skolimowska Memorial “gold” was for 2 seasons – 2020 and 2021. 

The year 2022 was originally supposed to remain “golden” as well. But a pandemic situation mainly in China forced a reconstruction of the Diamond League calendar. The Shanghai and Shenzhen myths were canceled. Memorial director Marcin Rosengarten received a phone call. A short question was asked – “Will you organize a Diamond League competition?”. The answer was obvious – YES. Thus, the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial is the first ever Polish meeting belonging to the Diamond League. In addition to cities such as Paris, Lausanne, Zurich, Brussels, Stockholm, Oslo and Monaco – is SILESIA MEMORIAL OF KAMILA SKOLIMOWSKA ! This is a huge honor because the list of those waiting to be diamond is extremely long!

The first historic diamond competition took place on August 6, at the Silesian Stadium, of course. They ended with a huge sporting success – top stars, led by Armand Duplantis and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, came to Poland. But the Diamond League authorities also appreciated the organizational level of the event. The result – in December 2022, in Rome SILESIA Memorial Kamila Skolimowska heard YES 14 times. YES to the inclusion of the mythology FIXED INTO THE DIAMOND LEAGUE CALENDAR!!!

The next competition will take place on August 16 in Chorzow at the Silesian Stadium. And they will be one of the more important stops on the athletics road to the world championships in September.