Adam Krzysztofiak

Adam Krzysztofiak
nation	Poland
birthday	January 21, 1951
place of birth	Zakopane ,  Poland
size	178 cm
Weight	72 kg
job	Bricklayer
date of death	January 16, 2008
Place of death	Zakopane ,  Poland
Career
society	SN PPT Zakopane
National squad	since 1970
End of career	1980
Medal table
JEM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × National medals 4 × 3 × 1 ×
Junior European Championships bronze 1969 Bollnäs singles  Polish championships bronze 1970 Zakopane Normal hill gold 1971 Wisła Large hill gold 1972 Zakopane Normal hill bronze 1972 Zakopane Large hill bronze 1973 Szczyrk Normal hill gold 1974 Zakopane Normal hill gold 1975 Szczyrk Normal hill silver 1975 Zakopane Large hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Four Hills Tournament	26. ( 1975/76 )

Adam Krzysztofiak (born January 21, 1951 in Zakopane , † January 16, 2008 there ) was a Polish ski jumper .

Career

Krzysztofiak celebrated his first success by winning the bronze medal at the European Junior Championships in 1969. He then moved to the senior national team. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1970 in Vysoké Tatry , he jumped from the normal hill to 41st place. He did not start from the large hill.

In December Krzysztofiak started in the Four Hills Tournament 1970/71 . After a rather mediocre 28th place on the Schattenbergschanze in Oberstdorf , he stopped jumping in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . On the Bergiselschanze in Innsbruck he surprisingly jumped to a good 11th place. In Bischofshofen he also showed a good result with 13th place. In the end, he reached rank 59 overall. In the following Four Hills Tournament 1971/72 he could not achieve any better individual results. However, he started all four competitions for the first time and was 46th in the overall ranking.

At the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo , Krzysztofiak started in both individual competitions. He finished 24th on the normal hill and 29th on the large hill. In the winter of 1972/73 he did not start at the Four Hills Tournament . Only the following year he was back in the squad for the Four Hills Tournament 1973/74 . He again achieved good individual placements, so that he reached an equally good 31st place in the overall ranking.

After he started unsuccessfully at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1974 in Falun , he went back to the Four Hills Tournament in the winter of 1974/75 . However, after he only started in Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen and achieved 13th place in Oberstdorf, he finished 80th overall. In the following Four Hills Tournament in 1975/76 , Krzystofiak started again in all four competitions and achieved his best overall result with 26th place.

His last major tournament started at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck . In the jump from the normal hill he was tied with the Italian Marcello Bazzana and the Yugoslav Bogdan Norčič on the 38th place.

The trained bricklayer Krzysztofiak ended his active career in 1980. He then worked as a ski jumping trainer, among others for Robert Mateja . He died in 2008 after a serious lung disease.

successes

Four Hills Tournament placements

season	space	Points
1970/71	59.	645.2
1971/72	46.	787.1
1973/74	31.	802.3
1974/75	80.	381.4
1975/76	26th	758.6

Web links

• Adam Krzysztofiak in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Adam Krzysztofiak in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Adam Krzystofiak on The-Sports.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1970 Nordic World Championships, Strbske Pleso K70 ( English ) skijump-db.net. Archived from the original on May 10, 2003. Retrieved November 3, 2013.
2. ↑ Ski Jumping at the 1976 Innsbruck Winter Games: Men's Normal Hill, Individual ( English ) Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved November 3, 2013.