Aleksander Rozmus

Aleksander Rozmus
Full name	Aleksander Józef Rozmus
nation	Poland
birthday	January 18, 1901
place of birth	Zakopane ,  Congress Poland
size	169 cm
Weight	72 kg
job	commercial clerk
date of death	April 18, 1986
Place of death	Ennery ,  France
Career
discipline	Nordic combined ski jumping
society	SN PTT Zakopane Sokół Zakopane Wisła Zakopane (from 1927)
Medal table
PM Medals (SP) 2 × 4 × 0 × PM medals (NK) 0 × 1 × 2 ×
Polish championships gold 1921 Zakopane Single SP gold 1922 Vorokhta Single SP silver 1923 Slavske Single SP silver 1925 Krynica-Zdrój Single SP silver 1928 Zakopane Single SP silver 1930 Zakopane Single SP  Polish championships bronze 1922 Vorokhta Single NK bronze 1923 Slavske Single NK silver 1925 Krynica-Zdrój Single NK

Aleksander Józef Rozmus (born January 18, 1901 in Zakopane , † April 18, 1986 in Ennery ) was a Polish Nordic skier. He was twice Polish champion in ski jumping .

Career

Rozmus (second from left) in Vorokhta 1922

Rozmus, who started his career for three clubs, achieved his first successes at the Polish championships in ski jumping and Nordic combined . He won the second edition of the ski jumping championship in front of Leszek Pawłowski in the Dolina Jaworzynki valley near Zakopane . A year later he was able to defend the championship title in Vorokhta before Andrzej Krzeptowski . He was also successful in combination this year when he was on the podium for the first time with third place.

Rozmus took part in the Nordic World Ski Championships three times , but only found himself in the lower ranks. At the Olympic Winter Games in St. Moritz in 1928 , he took 22nd place in the individual Nordic Combined competition and 25th place in the jumping competition.

In his career, Rozmus won a total of six national medals in ski jumping, as well as three in Nordic combined. He was able to set a new Polish distance record four times, with his longest jump in 1928 with 56.5 meters.

Rozmus joined the army in 1939 during the attack on Poland and participated in the Polish resistance movement at the beginning of the German occupation. After fleeing to France, he continued to fight against the National Socialists in the French resistance . After the war he stayed in France and worked, among other things, as a ski instructor in Chamonix . After his death in April 1986, Rozmus was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris .

Results

winter Olympics

• 1928 St. Moritz : 22nd individual NK, 25th individual SP

World championships

• 1925 Janské Lázně : 46th place individual SP
• 1927 Cortina d'Ampezzo : 24th place individual NK, 25th place individual SP
• 1929 Zakopane : 37th individual SP

Web links

• Aleksander Rozmus in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Portrait at the Polish Olympic Committee (Polish)
• Portrait of Aleksander Rozmus on skijumping.pl (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Aleksander Rozmus. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved March 15, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Portrait at the Polish Olympic Committee , accessed on March 15, 2019 (Polish).
3. ^ ^{A b} Wojciech Szatkowski: Wielki poczet skoczków polskich: Aleksander Rozmus - Rekordzista z Jaworzynki. In: skijumping.pl. Retrieved March 15, 2019 (Polish).