Edward Fender

Edward Fender
Full name	Edward Piotr Fender
nation	Poland
birthday	August 8, 1942
place of birth	Bielitz ,  German Empire
size	181 cm
Weight	75 kg
Career
society	MKS Bielsko-Biała
status	resigned
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × National medals 2 × ? × ? ×
Luge World Championships silver 1963 Imst Two-seater Polish championships gold 1960 Two-seater gold 1964 Two-seater

Edward Piotr Fender (born August 8, 1942 in Bielitz ) is a former Polish luge athlete who competed in international competitions in the 1960s.

Career

Fender won his first national title at the Polish Championships in 1960 with his partner Jerzy Wojnar . Three years later, he and Mieczysław Pawełkiewicz won the silver medal in the two-seater competition at the 1963 Luge World Championships in Imst . At the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1964 , the couple took sixth place. In the individual competition he was eliminated in round one. A little later he won his second Polish championship title together with Mieczysław Pawełkiewicz.

After the end of his playing career, Fender worked as a coach. From 1978 to 1983 he looked after the national team in natural track tobogganing .

Web links

• Edward Fender in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Henryk Urbańczyk: Starzy, niezapomniani mistrzowie Edward Fender, Mieczysław Pawełkiewicz, ( Polish ) magazyn.pogodzinach.net. 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 14, 2014. 
2. ↑ Pawełkiewicz Mieczysław Franciszek - Polski Komitet Olimpijski ( Polish ) olimpijski.pl. Retrieved on February 14, 2014.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.