Bronislaw Czech

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Bronislaw Czech Ski jumping Nordic combinationCross-country skiing
Bronislaw Czech
nation Poland 1919Second Polish Republic Poland
birthday July 25, 1908
place of birth Zakopane ,  Austria-HungaryAustria-HungaryAustria-Hungary 
size 173 cm
date of death June 5, 1944
Place of death Auschwitz ,  German EmpireGerman Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) 
Career
discipline Ski jumping
Nordic combined
cross-country skiing
society SN PTT Zakopane (1925–1936)
AZS Kraków (1936–1939)
Medal table
PM Medals (SP) 5 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
PM medals (NK) 5 × gold 4 × silver 0 × bronze
Polish Ski Association logo Polish championships
gold 1925 Krynica Juniors SP
gold 1928 Zakopane Single SP
gold 1929 Zakopane Single SP
gold 1931 Wisla Single SP
gold 1934 Zakopane Single SP
silver 1936 Zakopane Single SP
silver 1937 Wisla Single SP
Polish Ski Association logo Polish championships
gold 1927 Zakopane Single NK
gold 1928 Zakopane Single NK
gold 1929 Zakopane Single NK
silver 1930 Zakopane Single NK
silver 1931 Wisla Single NK
silver 1933 Zakopane Single NK
gold 1934 Zakopane Single NK
silver 1936 Zakopane Single NK
gold 1937 Zakopane Single NK
 

Bronisław Czech (born July 25, 1908 in Zakopane , Galicia , Austria-Hungary ; † June 5, 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau ) was a Polish skier. He took part in the Winter Olympics three times .

Career

Czech was a versatile sportsman who became Polish champion in various ski sports disciplines. He won the championship title in ski jumping four times , three times in his home town of Zakopane. His furthest jump in a championship he succeeded in 1934 from Wielka Krokiew with 66.0 meters. In the Nordic Combined he was five times champion between 1927 and 1937. Also in the third Nordic skiing discipline , cross-country skiing , he achieved successes over the 18 km route with two championship titles in 1929 and 1933. He was also successful seven times in the 5x10 km relay. In addition, Czech was also very talented in alpine skiing. He won the downhill championship title in 1929 and 1937 . In 1936 and 1937 he dominated Polish skiers when he was also twice Polish champion in slalom and alpine combined .

Czech participated in eleven world championships in winter sports between 1927 and 1939 . He achieved his best individual result at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1929 in his hometown. He was fourth in Nordic combined and tenth in ski jumping. In the relay race over 4 × 10 km, he was in 1934 in Sollefteå, Sweden, together with Stanisław Karpiel , Andrzej Marusarz and Stanisław Marusarz fifth. His best result at the Alpine World Ski Championships was achieved in Innsbruck in 1936 with a 13th place in the downhill.

Czech took part in the Winter Olympics three times for his homeland: 1928 , 1932 and 1936 . Apart from 1936 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , when he finished 20th in the Alpine Combined, Czech only competed in Nordic disciplines. In 1932 he achieved seventh place in the Nordic Combined in Lake Placid (2 jumps, 18 km cross-country skiing), his best result at the Winter Olympics. Twelfth place in ski jumping was also his best Olympic result in 1932.

In addition to his activity as an active winter sportsman, Czech was also a mountaineer , mountain rescuer , ski instructor and pilot . He ran a ski school and in 1934 wrote the textbook "Skiing and Ski Jumping Style".

After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, Czech joined a resistance group and smuggled people and important documents into Hungary via the Tatra Mountains . His former Austrian trainer betrayed him, so that he was imprisoned as a member of the Polish Home Army during the Second World War , tortured in the Hotel Palace and one of the first prisoners to be deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp . He died in Auschwitz I in June 1944 at the age of 35.

Olympic placements

Czech with S. Marusarz in Garmisch
Special jump run 37.
Nordic combined 10.
Special jump run 12.
Cross-country skiing 18 km 18.
Nordic combined 7.
Special jump run 33.
Cross-country skiing 18 km 33.
Nordic combined 16.
Alpine combination 20.
Cross-country skiing 4 × 10 km 7.

Others

From 1946 to 1994, a Czech Marusarzówna Memorial Ski Competition was held annually in Zakopane in honor of Czech and Helena Marusarzówna . Competitions were held in Nordic combined, ski jumping, cross-country skiing and alpine combined.

In 2008, the normal hill of category K 85 in the Średnia Krokiew ski jumping complex in Zakopane was named after Czech and a memorial plaque was also set up.

literature

  • Tomasz Jurek : Bronisław Czech (1908-1944). Olympian and Auschwitz prisoner number 349 , in: Diethelm Blecking , Lorenz Peiffer (eds.) Athletes in the “Century of Camps”. Profiteers, resistors and victims. Göttingen: Die Werkstatt, 2012, pp. 286–291

Web links

Commons : Bronisław Czech  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Result and report on the 1925 championship , in: Przegląd Sportowy of February 5, 1925, page 6, accessed on October 3, 2019 (Polish).
  2. ↑ a b c The sad death of Bronislaw Czech , taz January 27, 2015
  3. ↑ Andreas Meyhoff and Gerhard Pfeil: The Hidden Games. In: spiegel.de. January 18, 2010, accessed February 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Bronisław Czech in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
  5. ↑ Ski jumping hill archive: Średnia Krokiew, Zakopane. Retrieved on March 16, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Czech, Bronislaw
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish skier
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Zakopane , Galicia , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1944
Place of death Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp