Barbara Piecha

Barbara Piecha-Gawior (born March 4, 1949 in Katowice , Poland ) is a former Polish luge athlete .

Barbara Piecha was world champion at the 1970 World Championships on the track in Königssee, ahead of the German starters Christa Schmuck and Elisabeth Demleitner . The following year she was third at the World Championships in Olang behind Demleitner and Erika Lechner and at the European Championships in Imst behind Lechner and Angela Knösel . The athlete from GKS Katowice took part in the Olympic Winter Games twice. In 1972 in Sapporo she finished ninth, in 1976 in Innsbruck she was 13th.

literature

• Głuszek, Leksykon ( Lexikon ) 1999, pp. 298–299 (incorrect date of birth 1948 given here)
• Pawlak, Olimpijczycy ( Olympians ), p. 202
• Klimontowicz, Ruch olimpijski ( Olympic Movement ), pp. 73–74 (here again wrong date of birth 1948 given)
• Porada, Igrzyska, pp. 880, 896
• Iskier przewodnik, s. 591;
• Tajner, Legendy ( Legends ) (here incorrectly Polish champion 1970)
• Zielśkiewicz, Encyklopedia ( Encyclopedia ), pp. 165, 406, 410, 415 (here again wrong date of birth 1948 given)

Web links

• Barbara Piecha in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Piecha-Gawior Barbara. Polski Komitet Olimpijski, accessed November 28, 2013 . 

annotation

1. ↑ The information on the year of birth diverges in various sources. With Sports-Reference is given in 1948, on the side of the Polish Olympic Committee in 1949, in the book The stars of the sport in 1950