Adam Malysz

Adam Malysz
Adam Malysz
Full name	Adam Henryk Małysz
nation	Poland
birthday	3rd December 1977
place of birth	Wisła ,  Poland
size	170 cm
Weight	54 kg
Career
society	KS Wisła Ustronianka
Trainer	Hannu Lepistö
National squad	since 1994
Pers. Best	230.5 m ( Vikersund 2011)
status	resigned
End of career	March 20, 2011
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 3 × 1 × World Cup medals 4 × 1 × 1 × PM medals 47 × 9 × 3 ×
winter Olympics silver 2002 Salt Lake City Large hill bronze 2002 Salt Lake City Normal hill silver 2010 Vancouver Normal hill silver 2010 Vancouver Large hill  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 2001 Lahti Normal hill silver 2001 Lahti Large hill gold 2003 Val di Fiemme Normal hill gold 2003 Val di Fiemme Large hill gold 2007 Sapporo Normal hill bronze 2011 Oslo Normal hill  Polish championships silver 1994 Zakopane Large hill gold 1994 Zakopane Normal hill bronze 1994 Zakopane team gold 1995 Zakopane Large hill silver 1995 Szczyrk Normal hill gold 1995 Szczyrk team gold 1996 Zakopane Large hill silver 1996 Szczyrk Normal hill silver 1996 Szczyrk team gold 1997 Wisła Large hill silver 1997 Szczyrk Normal hill silver 1997 Zakopane team bronze 1998 Zakopane Large hill gold 1998 Zakopane team silver 1999 Wisła Large hill gold 1999 Szczyrk Normal hill gold 2000 Zakopane Large hill gold 2000 Zakopane Normal hill gold 2000 Zakopane team gold 2002 Zakopane Large hill gold 2002 Zakopane Normal hill gold 2002 Zakopane team gold 2003 Zakopane Large hill gold 2003 Szczyrk Normal hill gold 2004 Zakopane Large hill gold 2004 Karpacz Normal hill gold 2005 Zakopane Large hill gold 2005 Szczyrk Normal hill gold 2005 Szczyrk team silver 2006 Zakopane Large hill gold 2006 Zakopane Normal hill gold 2006 Zakopane team gold 2007 Szczyrk Normal hill gold 2007 Szczyrk team gold 2008 Zakopane Large hill gold 2008 Zakopane Normal hill silver 2008 Zakopane team gold 2009 Szczyrk Normal hill gold 2009 Szczyrk team gold 2010 Zakopane Large hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 9, 1994
World Cup victories (individual)	39 ( details )
Overall World Cup	01. ( 2000/01 , 2001/02 , 2002/03 , 2006/07 )
Jump World Cup	01. (2000/01)
Four Hills Tournament	01. ( 2000/01 )
Nordic Tournament	01. (2001, 2003, 2007)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 33 23 21st  Ski flying 6th 4th 5  Team jumping 0 1 3
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Overall Grand Prix	01. ( 2001 , 2004 , 2006 )

Adam Henryk Małysz (  [ ˈadam ˈmawɨʃ ] ) (born December 3, 1977 in Wisła , Poland ) is a former Polish ski jumper . He won four gold medals at world championships and is therefore the most successful ski jumper of all time measured by the number of individual gold medals in a world championship. In addition, he won four medals at the Olympic Games and four times in the overall ranking of the overall World Cup , including three times in a row as the only ski jumper. He also won the Four Hills Tournament once , the Summer Grand Prix three times, the Nordic Tournament three times and the KOP Overall Cup twice. In 2001 and 2002 he also set numerous hill records and in 2003 set Andreas Goldberger's current ski flying world record with 225 meters . Measured by the number of his World Cup victories, he is the third most successful ski jumper of all time with 39 successes behind Gregor Schlierenzauer and Matti Nykänen .

Life

Adam Małysz began his sports career in Nordic combined . At the age of 15, Małysz, who completed an apprenticeship as a roofer , began his international ski jumping career. After his unexpected successes in 2001, he rose to become a folk hero in Poland, who was celebrated year after year, especially at the jumping in Zakopane . As a four-time individual world champion and four-time overall World Cup winner, Małysz is the most successful Polish winter sportsman to date.

From the 2006/07 season to the 2010/11 season Małysz was trained by the Finnish coach Hannu Lepistö . In contrast to the vast majority of his compatriots, Małysz is evangelical . He is married to Izabela and has one daughter, Karolina.

After the end of his career, Adam Małysz announced that he would be active as a rally driver in the future and that he was planning to start at the Dakar Rally . In fact, he has started there three times so far. In addition, he was the attaché for the Poles at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

At the beginning of May 2012 it was announced that Adam Małysz was running for a seat on the board of the International Ski Federation FIS .

successes

After initial successes in 1995 and 1996, Adam Małysz was a rather average ski jumper until he unexpectedly won the Four Hills Tournament by a large margin in the 2000/01 season . Since then he has belonged to the international elite. In the same season he was also able to win the Nordic Tournament and became world champion on the normal hill at the 2001 Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti . He also won the overall World Cup.

He repeated his victory in the ski jumping World Cup in the following years in 2002 and 2003 , making him the first ski jumper in history to be the most constant ski jumper for three years in a row. At the 2003 World Cup in Val di Fiemme , Italy , he won both individual competitions.

A few changeable years followed without any major successes: In the 2003/04 season, Małysz could not win a single World Cup competition. A year later he again achieved four wins and fourth place overall. In 2005/06 he won the jumping on Holmenkollbakken in Oslo only at the end of the season .

In 2007, however, Małysz returned to the absolute top of the world and secured the world champion title on the normal hill in Sapporo at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 . He outclassed the competition by 22 points and is the record individual world champion with a total of four titles. In the second half of the season he was able to win nine World Cup competitions, including six of the last seven competitions, and was thus again and for the fourth time the overall World Cup winner. He also secured victory in the overall ski flying ranking, for which, however, due to the small number of competitions from the 2001/02 season to after the 2007/08 season, no crystal ball was awarded. In addition, Małysz won the Nordic Tour for the third time this year.

On March 3, 2011, after jumping from the large hill on Holmenkollbakken at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo, he announced the end of his ski jumping career. He completed his last official jump on March 20, 2011 on the ski flying hill in Planica . There he jumped 216 meters and reached third place.

On March 26, 2011, Małysz held his personal farewell competition in Zakopane . The entire world elite of ski jumping, numerous Polish celebrities and the then President Bronisław Komorowski were present at the event. Due to heavy snowfall, no competition could be held, however, besides Małysz, numerous jumpers left the hill without being scored.

His personal record is 230.5 meters.

More Achievements:

• Win the Summer World Cup in 2001, 2004 and 2006
• Won the Nordic Tour in 2001, 2003 and 2007
• 21-time Polish winter champion in singles, 8 times in team (record)
• 18-time Polish summer champion in singles (record)
• Silver medal (large hill) and bronze medal (normal hill) at the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City 2002 .
• 2 silver medals (normal and large hill) at the Olympic Games in Vancouver 2010 .
• In 2001 he was honored with the Holmenkollen Medal .

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
01.	March 18, 1996	Oslo	Large hill
02.	January 18, 1997	Sapporo	Normal hill
03.	January 26, 1997	Hakuba	Large hill
04th	January 4, 2001	innsbruck	Large hill
05.	January 6, 2001	Bischofshofen	Large hill
06th	January 13, 2001	Harrachov	Ski jump
07th	January 14, 2001	Harrachov	Ski jump
08th.	January 20, 2001	Park City	Large hill
09.	January 27, 2001	Sapporo	Large hill
10.	January 28, 2001	Sapporo	Large hill
11.	February 4, 2001	Willingen	Large hill
12.	March 7, 2001	Falun	Large hill
13.	March 9, 2001	Trondheim	Large hill
14th	March 11, 2001	Oslo	Large hill
15th	November 28, 2001	Kuopio	Large hill
16.	December 2, 2001	Titisee-Neustadt	Large hill
17th	December 9, 2001	Villach	Normal hill
18th	December 16, 2001	Engelberg	Large hill
19th	December 21, 2001	Val di Fiemme	Large hill
20th	December 22, 2001	Val di Fiemme	Large hill
21st	January 20, 2002	Zakopane	Large hill
22nd	March 11, 2003	Oslo	Large hill
23.	March 14, 2003	Lahti	Large hill
24.	March 15, 2003	Lahti	Large hill
25th	December 13, 2004	Harrachov	Large hill
26th	January 6, 2005	Bad Mitterndorf	Ski jump
27.	January 29, 2005	Zakopane	Large hill
28.	January 30, 2005	Zakopane	Large hill
29	March 12, 2006	Oslo	Large hill
30th	January 27, 2007	Oberstdorf	Ski jump
31.	February 3, 2007	Titisee-Neustadt	Large hill
32.	February 4, 2007	Titisee-Neustadt	Large hill
33.	March 11, 2007	Lahti	Large hill
34.	March 13, 2007	Kuopio	Large hill
35.	March 17, 2007	Oslo	Large hill
36.	March 23, 2007	Planica	Ski jump
37.	March 24, 2007	Planica	Ski jump
38.	March 25, 2007	Planica	Ski jump
39.	January 21, 2011	Zakopane	Large hill

World Cup placements

season space Victories Special 1994/95 51. - - 1995/96 7th 1 1st World Cup victory 1996/97 10. 2 - 1997/98 56. - - 1998/99 46. - - 1999/00 28. - - 2000/01 1. 11 1. Overall World Cup winner of the Four Hills Tournament, first time winner of the Nordic Tour World Champion Lahti - normal hill 2001/02 1. 7th 2nd overall World Cup victory silver medal Salt Lake City ( Olympic Winter Games ) - large hill bronze medal Salt Lake City ( Olympic Winter Games ) - normal hill 2002/03 1. 3 3rd overall World Cup winner (first three times in a row) Winner of the Nordic Tour World Champion Val di Fiemme - both individual competitions 2003/04 12. - - 2004/05 4th 4th - 2005/06 9. 1 - 2006/07 1. 9 4th overall World Cup winner of the Nordic Tour World Champion Sapporo - normal hill winner of the overall ski flying ranking (KOP World Cup) 2007/08 12. - 2008/09 13. - first podium place (three in total) after almost 2 years 2009/10 5. - Silver Medal Vancouver ( Winter Olympic Games ) - both individual competitions 2010/11 3. 1 Bronze medal Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 Polish team for the first time in third place in the overall standings, national distance record of 230.5 m, improved career end

Overall, Małysz won 39 World Cup competitions, which puts him in third place after Gregor Schlierenzauer and Matti Nykänen in the all-time best list of individual WC winners. With his fourth overall World Cup victory, he drew level with the leader Matti Nykänen in the all-time list of the best overall WC winners . On March 10, 2010, he completed his 300th World Cup competition in Kuopio .

season	space	Points
1994/95	51.	0040
1995/96	07th	0751
1996/97	10.	0612
1997/98	57.	0043
1998/99	46.	0058
1999/00	28.	0214
2000/01	01.	1531
2001/02	01.	1475
2002/03	01.	1357
2003/04	12.	0525
2004/05	04th	1201
2005/06	09.	0634
2006/07	01.	1453
2007/08	12.	0632
2008/09	13.	0549
2009/10	05.	0842
2010/11	03.	1153

Individual Grand Prix victories

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	August 11, 2001	Hinterzarten	Normal hill
2.	July 31, 2004	Hinterzarten	Normal hill
3.	August 7, 2004	Courchevel	Large hill
4th	September 4, 2004	Zakopane	Large hill
5.	September 8, 2004	Pragelato	Large hill
6th	August 8, 2006	Pragelato	Large hill
7th	August 26, 2006	Zakopane	Large hill
8th.	September 30, 2006	Klingenthal	Large hill
9.	October 3, 2006	Oberhof	Large hill
10.	August 25, 2007	Zakopane	Large hill
11.	August 8, 2010	Hinterzarten	Normal hill
12.	August 20, 2010	Wisła	Large hill
13.	October 1, 2010	Liberec	Large hill

Grand Prix victories in the team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	August 7, 2010	Hinterzarten	Normal hill

Grand Prix placements

Adam Małysz won the overall classification of the Summer GP three times . He won a total of 13 individual competitions.

Grand Prix	space	Victories	Special
1995	66.	-	-
1996	6th	-	-
1997	21st	-	-
1998	-	-	no start
1999	54.	-	-
2000	19th	-	-
2001	1.	1	1st GP victory 1st overall GP victory
2002	10.	-	-
2003	-	-	no start
2004	1.	4th	2nd overall GP victory
2005	42.	-	only jumped in 3 competitions
2006	1.	4th	3rd overall GP victory (first ski jumper in history)
2007	2.	1	only jumped in 6 competitions
2008	34.	-	only jumped in 5 competitions
2009	3.	-	only jumped in 6 competitions
2010	3.	3	-

season	space	Points
1996	06th	133
1997	21st	061
1999	54.	002
2000	19th	093
2001	01.	397
2002	10.	126
2004	01.	520
2005	42.	029
2006	01.	545
2007	02.	460
2008	34.	068
2009	03.	294
2010	03.	480

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	January 7, 1996	Bad Goisern	Normal hill
2.	March 10, 1996	Falun	Large hill
3.	September 26, 1996	Muju	Normal hill
4th	September 27, 1996	Muju	Large hill
5.	July 29, 2000	Oberstdorf	Normal hill
6th	July 25, 2004	Oberstdorf	Large hill
7th	July 26, 2004	Oberstdorf	Large hill
8th.	February 27, 2010	Wisła	Large hill

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Wisła	Poland	105.0 ( HS : 134 m)	1996	1997
Zakopane	Poland	91.5 ( HS : 94 m)	October 1, 1996	October 11, 1998
Wisła	Poland	110.0 ( HS : 134 m)	1997	1999
Oberstdorf	Germany	132.5 m ( HS : 137 m)	December 29, 2000	December 29, 2000
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Germany	129.5 m ( HS : 140 m)	January 1, 2001	January 1, 2008
innsbruck	Austria	120.5 m ( HS : 130 m)	January 3, 2001	January 4, 2002
Harrachov	Czech Republic	206.5 m ( HS : 205 m)	January 13, 2001	January 14, 2001
Willingen	Germany	142.0 m ( HS : 145 m)	February 2, 2001	February 3, 2001
Willingen	Germany	142.5 m ( HS : 145 m)	February 3, 2001	February 3, 2001
Willingen	Germany	151.0 m ( HS : 145 m)	February 3, 2001	January 9, 2005
Lahti	Finland	130.5 m ( HS : 130 m)	February 17, 2001	February 19, 2001
Trondheim	Norway	138.5 m ( HS : 130 m)	March 9, 2001	December 5, 2008
Villach	Austria	99.5 m ( HS : 98 m)	December 8, 2001	current
Val di Fiemme	Italy	131.0 m ( HS : 135 m)	December 21, 2001	December 22, 2001
Val di Fiemme	Italy	132.0 m ( HS : 135 m)	December 22, 2001	December 22, 2001
Park City	United States	133.5 m ( HS : 134 m)	January 20, 2001	current
Val di Fiemme	Italy	132.5 m ( HS : 135 m)	December 22, 2001	February 22, 2003
Park City	United States	98.5 m ( HS : 100 m)	February 10, 2002	February 10, 2002
Val di Fiemme	Italy	136.0 m ( HS : 135 m)	February 22, 2003	current
Val di Fiemme	Italy	107.5 m ( HS : 104 m)	February 28, 2003	current
Lahti	Finland	132.0 m ( HS : 130 m)	March 15, 2003	March 4, 2006
Planica	Slovenia	225.0 m ( HS : 215 m)	March 20, 2003	March 20, 2003
Val di Fiemme	Italy	134.0 m ( HS : 135 m)	September 8, 2004	current
innsbruck	Austria	136.0 m ( HS : 130 m)	September 11, 2004	current
Szczyrk	Poland	93.5 ( HS : 106 m)	January 26, 2005	February 15, 2008
Lahti	Finland	132.0 m ( HS : 130 m)	March 5, 2005	March 4, 2006
Pragelato	Italy	140.5 m ( HS : 140 m)	February 10, 2005	March 22, 2005
Titisee-Neustadt	Germany	145.0 m ( HS : 142 m)	February 3, 2007	March 11, 2016
Klingenthal	Germany	139.5 m ( HS : 140 m)	February 6, 2007	February 7, 2007
Sapporo	Japan	102.0 m ( HS : 100 m)	March 3, 2007	current
Wisła	Poland	126.0 m ( HS : 134 m)	September 26, 2008	September 27, 2008
Wisła	Poland	132.0 m ( HS : 134 m)	September 27, 2008	September 27, 2008
Wisła	Poland	132.5 m ( HS : 134 m)	September 27, 2008	September 28, 2008
Courchevel	France	134.5 ( HS : 134 m)	August 13, 2009	August 12, 2011
Wisła	Poland	134.0 m ( HS : 134 m)	September 13, 2009	July 25, 2010
Wisła	Poland	134.5 m ( HS : 134 m)	July 25, 2010	August 19, 2010

honors and awards

• 2002 Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta
• 2007 Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta

Web links

Commons : Adam Małysz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website (Polish)
• Adam Małysz in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Adam Małysz in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marco Ries: Ski jumping: Official: Adam Małysz becomes a rally driver on skijumping.de.
2. ↑ Ski jumping: Adam Małysz becomes attaché for Olympia on skijumping.de.
3. ↑ SKIJUMPING.de: Adam Małysz is a candidate for the FIS Board on skijumping.de on May 10, 2012
4. ↑ SKIJUMPING.de: Adam Malysz stops! . skijumping.de. Retrieved March 3, 2011.
5. ↑ SKIJUMPING.de: Heavy snowfall influences Adam Małysz's farewell jumping . skijumping.de. Retrieved March 26, 2011.