[2] The national indoor competition was held from 1933 to 1956 (with a break during World War II from 1939 to 1945).

[1] The following athletics events feature as standard on the Polish Indoor Championships programme: The 200 metres was introduced in 1982.

Combined events were added in 1974 – for men this was first held as a sextathlon, then as a heptathlon thereafter.

A men's walk race over 10,000 m was held from 1981 to 1986, before being reduced to the standard 5000 m distance.

The addition of women's triple jump (1991) and pole vault (1998) brought parity in the number of events for the sexes.