Andrzej Marusarz

Andrzej Marusarz
nation	Poland
birthday	August 31, 1913
place of birth	Zakopane ,  Austria-Hungary
size	168 cm
date of death	3rd October 1968
Place of death	Zakopane ,  Poland
Career
discipline	Nordic combined ski jumping
society	SN PTT Zakopane
Medal table
National Medals (SP) 1 × 1 × 2 × National Medals (NK) 1 × 2 × 2 ×
Polish championships bronze 1931 Wisla Single SP silver 1935 Zakopane Single SP gold 1938 Zakopane Single SP bronze 1939 Zakopane Single SP  Polish championships bronze 1933 Zakopane Single NK silver 1934 Zakopane Single NK silver 1937 Zakopane Single NK bronze 1938 Zakopane Single NK gold 1939 Zakopane Single NK

Andrzej Marusarz (born August 31, 1913 in Zakopane , Galicia , Austria-Hungary ; † October 3, 1968 ibid) was a Polish skier who was mainly active in ski jumping and Nordic combined . He was the son of a Tatra mountain guard .

Career

As the son of mountaineer Jędrzej Marusarz-Jarząbka and his wife Agnieszka Gąsienica-Daniel, Andrzej Marusarz grew up in the Tatra Mountains . He got enthusiastic about sport early in his school days and in 1929 he joined the sports club SN PTT Zakopane .

Career

Marusarz (left) in 1932 with teammates

At the Polish Ski Jumping Championships in Wisła in 1931 , Marusarz won bronze from the Malinka and thus his first national medal. He also showed his talent in the alpine downhill and was runner-up. Despite his versatility, Marusarz only competed in Nordic disciplines at the 1932 Winter Olympics . From the normal hill in Lake Placid he finished 22nd after jumps on 51.5 m and 54.0 m. In the Nordic Combined he reached 19th place. In 1933 Marusarz won his first medal in singles at the Polish Championships in Nordic Combined. In the 4x10 km relay he won silver in 1935.

At the Olympic Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1936 , Marusarz jumped into 21st place and reached 32nd place in the combination.

He celebrated his greatest success at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1939 in his hometown. In the combined competition, Marusarz scored 410.60 points and narrowly missed the podium in fourth. In the special jumping he was ranked 15th and in the 18 km cross-country skiing he reached the 55th place. With this he achieved his best world championship result in his fourth and last World Championship participation in both Nordic combined and ski jumping. Only in the long run he was in 1937 in Chamonix better with the 44th place.

In the course of his career, Marusarz won a master's title in ski jumping (1938) and one in Nordic combined (1939). He was able to celebrate both successes in Zakopane .

Second World War

After the outbreak of World War II , Marusarz had to leave Poland and fled via Hungary to Greece, where he was able to board the Polish passenger ship SS Warsaw , which was used to evacuate Polish soldiers and refugees during World War II. Marusarz then served in the Navy and was on board the SS Warsaw when the ship was hit by two German torpedoes on December 26, 1941 off the Libyan coast. Andrzej was able to save himself and in the following time sailed, among other things, as the helmsman of Allied convoys, including on ships that were involved in the Torch in North Africa and Overlord in Normandy.

After the war

After the war he continued to sail in the merchant navy for a while before finally returning to Poland. In his hometown Zakopane he worked as a ski instructor and youth trainer. He died at the age of only 55 and was buried in the Cmentarz Zasłużonych na Pęksowym Brzyzku cemetery.

Personal

Andrzej is the older brother of the Olympian and alpine skier Józef Marusarz and the cousin of the eleven-time Polish ski jumping champion Stanisław Marusarz and the resistance fighter Helena Marusarzówna . In 1948 he married Zofią Becker and had two children.

Web links

Commons : Andrzej Marusarz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Andrzej Marusarz on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• Andrzej Marusarz in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
• Portrait at the Polish Olympic Committee (Polish)
• Andrzej Marusarz in the database of wyniki-skoki.hostingasp.pl (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Marusarz Andrzej Biografia. In: olimpijski.pl. Retrieved February 25, 2019 (Polish). 
2. ↑ Poczet skoczków polskich: Andrzej Marusarz - Między nartami a morskim żywiołem ... In: skijumping.pl. January 4, 2006, Retrieved February 25, 2019 (Polish). 
3. ↑ Poczet skoczków polskich: Andrzej Marusarz - Między nartami a morskim żywiołem ... In: skijumping.pl. January 4, 2006, Retrieved February 25, 2019 (Polish). 
4. ^ Andrzej Marusarz. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved February 25, 2019 .