Andrzej Sztolf

Andrzej Sztolf
Andrzej Sztolf
nation	Poland
birthday	June 9, 1941
place of birth	Przeworsk ,  Soviet Union
size	178 cm
Weight	80 kg
date of death	February 1, 2012
Place of death	Krakow ,  Poland
Career
society	SN PTT Zakopane
Medal table
Universiade medals 0 × 1 × 1 × National medals 2 × 2 × 1 ×
Winter Universiade bronze 1964 Špindlerův Mlýn Normal hill silver 1966 Sestriere singles  Polish championships bronze 1963 Zakopane Normal hill gold 1965 Zakopane Normal hill gold 1965 Zakopane Large hill silver 1967 Zakopane Large hill silver 1968 Wisła Large hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Four Hills Tournament	21. ( 1963/64 )

Andrzej Sztolf (born June 9, 1941 in Przeworsk , † February 1, 2012 in Krakow ) was a Polish ski jumper .

Career

Andrzej Sztolf was born in 1941 as the son of the two sports teachers Łucji and Tadeusz Sztolf in Przeworsk in the Soviet-occupied part of Poland. As a child, he began with athletics and ski jumping . In 1949 he moved with his family to Szklarska Poręba in western Poland, where he resumed ski jumping training on a K27 hill. A little later he won the championship of the railway sports club. In 1956 he was accepted into the junior national team.

He made his international debut with the seniors at the Four Hills Tournament in 1962/63 . After a weak first tour with 33rd place overall, Sztolf made his breakthrough in the 1963/64 Four Hills Tournament . After rank 23 on the Schattenbergschanze in Oberstdorf , he made it to the top of the world for the first time with rank 13 on the Great Olympic Hill in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . He finally achieved his best individual result in tenth place in the final competition in Bischofshofen on the Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze . In the overall ranking he reached 21st place.

At the following Olympic Winter Games in 1964 in Innsbruck Sztolf reached rank 26 on the normal hill. After a season break in the Four Hills Tournament , he won his only two national titles at the Polish Championships in 1965 on the normal and large hill.

At the 1966 Winter Universiade in Sestriere , he won silver in the individual competition after winning bronze at the 1964 Winter Universiade in Špindlerův Mlýn .

After he did not achieve any great success in the following years and was not nominated for the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1966 or 1970 , he ended his active ski jumping career in 1971. Before that he won the silver medal on the large hill at the Polish Championships in 1967 and 1968.

After the end of his career, Sztolf began studying mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Krakow . After his retirement he settled in Zakopane , where he started a company for the construction of blinds and worked as a ski instructor in winter. Sztolf was a member of the Democratic Party of Poland .

successes

Four Hills Tournament placements

season	space	Points
1962/63	33.	661.8
1963/64	21st	765.0
1965/66	37.	681.5
1967/68	40.	693.3
1968/69	48.	630.2
1969/70	62.	668.9

literature

• Jens Jahn , Egon Theiner : Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping . 1st edition. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-099-5 .

Web links

• Andrzej Sztolf in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Andrzej Sztolf in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Andrzej Sztolf on The-Sports.org (Profile 1)
• Andrzej Sztolf on The-Sports.org (Profile 2)
• Obituary at the Polish Ski Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Wyniki Mistrzostw Polski - 1920-2002 . skijumping.pl. Archived from the original on November 16, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 5, 2014. 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Wojciech Szatkowski: "Nigdy never byłem grzecznym chłopcem" - Andrzej Sztolf . In: Od Marusarza do Małysza . Retrieved February 5, 2014.
3. ↑ Z Zalem żegnamy naszego Kolege Andrzeja Sztolfa . Stronnictwo Demokratyczne. Archived from the original on February 21, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 5, 2014.