TS Wisła Zakopane

Towarzystwo Sportowe Wisła Zakopane is a Polish sports club that was founded in 1926 as a branch of the Kraków sports club TS Wisła Kraków . The sports club is now a pure winter sports club and consists only of a ski jumping department and a department for Nordic combined .

The initiators of the establishment were fans of the Wisła from Kraków, including athletes like Władysław Mietelski and Aleksander Rozmus . The first president of the Zakopane association was Franciszek Wagner . During the Second World War , the club had to cease its activities, but the TS Wisła Zakopane was able to resume its operations immediately after its end after great efforts by the later honorary president Kornel Makuszyński . Between 1948 and 1991 the association appeared under the name Wisła - Gwardia Zakopane .

Well-known athletes of the club

The club has produced some successful athletes, including the Olympic champion Wojciech Fortuna and the reigning world champion in ski jumping on the normal hill Dawid Kubacki .

• Michał Górski (1911–1985)
• Izydor Gąsienica-Łuszczek (1912–1992)
• Mieczysław Wnuk (1917-2010)
• Jan Kula (1922–1995)
• Tadeusz Kwapień (1923–2012)
• Aleksander Kowalski (1930-2009)
• Franciszek Gąsienica Groń (1931-2014)
• Stanisław Gąsienica Daniel (* 1951)
• Wojciech Fortuna (* 1952)
• Marek Pach (* 1954)
• Janusz Duda (* 1961)
• Stanisław Ustupski (* 1966)
• Bogdan Papierz (* 1968)
• Andrzej Młynarczyk (* 1973)
• Robert Mateja (* 1974)
• Robert Zygmuntowicz (* 1976)
• Kazimierz Bafia (* 1976)
• Wojciech Skupień (* 1976)
• Tomasz Pochwała (* 1983)
• Łukasz Rutkowski (* 1988)
• Dawid Kubacki (* 1990)
• Klemens Murańka (* 1994)

Polish championships

Ski jumping

In team jumping, TS Wisła Zakopane has won the championship title six times.

Polish Championships (team jumping)
	1982 Zakopane	Silver from the large hill
	1985 Wisła	Gold from the large hill
	1987 Wisła	Silver from the large hill
	1988 Zakopane	Silver from the large hill
	1989 Wisła	Silver from the large hill
	1990 Zakopane	Bronze from the normal hill
	1991 Szczyrk	Silver from the normal hill
	1992 Zakopane	Silver from the normal hill
	1993 Szczyrk	Silver from the normal hill
	1994 Zakopane	Gold and silver from the normal hill
	1996 Zakopane	Bronze from the normal hill
	2000 Zakopane	Bronze from the normal hill
	2001 Szczyrk	Gold from the normal hill
	2002 Zakopane	Bronze from the normal hill
	2006 Zakopane	Silver from the large hill
	2007 Szczyrk	Silver from the normal hill
	2008 Zakopane	Gold from the normal hill
	2008 Wisła (summer)	Gold from the large hill
	2009 Szczyrk	Silver from the normal hill
	2010 Szczyrk (summer)	Bronze from the normal hill
	2011 Szczyrk	Gold from the normal hill
	2012 Zakopane	Silver from the large hill
	2013 Wisła	Bronze from the large hill
	2014 Wisła (summer)	Silver from the large hill
	2015 Zakopane	Bronze from the large hill
	2015 Szczyrk (summer)	Silver from the normal hill
	2016 Wisła	Silver from the large hill
	2019 Szczyrk (Summer)	Bronze from the normal hill

Nordic combination

In team competitions TS Wisła Zakopane has won fifteen championship titles so far.

Polish Championships (team competitions)
	1982 Zakopane	gold
	1983 Zakopane	Silver and bronze
	1984 Zakopane	Gold and bronze
	1985 Wisła	gold and silver
	1986 Zakopane / Szczyrk	gold and silver
	1987 Wisła / Szczyrk	gold and silver
	1988 Zakopane	Gold, silver and bronze
	1989 Szczyrk / Wisła	gold and silver
	1990 Zakopane	gold
	1991 Szczyrk / Wisła	gold and silver
	1992 Zakopane	gold
	1993 Szczyrk	gold
	1995 Szczyrk	Gold (normal hill / 2x5 km)
	1996 Zakopane	Gold (normal hill / 2x5 km)
	1998 Zakopane	Gold and bronze (normal hill / 3x5 km)
	2004 Karpacz	Bronze (normal hill / 3x5 km)
	2012 Zakopane	Gold (large hill / 5x1.5 km)

Web links

• Official website of TS Wisła Zakopane (Polish)
• 80 lat TS Wisła Zakopane , on podhale-sport.pl (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Historia. In: wislazak.nazwa.pl. Retrieved March 2, 2019 (Polish). 
2. ^ Wisla Zakopane. In: historiawisly.pl. Retrieved March 2, 2019 (Polish).