Franciszek Bujak

Franciszek Bujak
nation	Poland
birthday	November 25, 1896
place of birth	Jaszczurówka ,  Galicia , Austria-Hungary
size	176 cm
Weight	72 kg
date of death	11th September 1975
Place of death	Zakopane ,  Poland
Career
discipline	Cross-country skiing Nordic combined ski jumping
society	Łyżwistów (1908 - 1913) SN PTT Zakopane (from 1913)
Medal table
National medals 4 × 4 × 2 ×
Participants in cross-country skiing  Polish championships gold 1920 Zakopane 18 km silver 1921 18 km silver 1924 18 km gold 1927 50 km Participant in the Nordic Combined  Polish championships gold 1920 Zakopane singles gold 1921 Zakopane singles bronze 1924 Krynica singles silver 1926 Zakopane singles Participants in ski jumping  Polish championships silver 1920 Zakopane singles bronze 1921 Zakopane singles

Franciszek Bujak (born November 25, 1896 in Zakopane , † September 11, 1975 there ) was a Polish Nordic skier. He was twice Polish champion in cross-country skiing and Nordic combined .

Career

After finishing his military service in 1920, Bujak took part in the first Nordic Ski Championships in Poland in Zakopane . By winning the 18 km cross-country skiing, Bujak became the winner of the first Polish championship ski title in the history of Polish skiing. In addition, he won the combined competition and was second behind Leszek Pawłowski in the special jump .

Bujak was a participant in the 1924 Winter Olympics , where he was only rated in cross-country skiing and achieved 27th place over 18 kilometers. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1925 in Janské Lázně , he started only in cross-country skiing and finished in 38th place. He achieved his best world championship result in 1927 in Cortina d'Ampezzo over 50 km by reaching fourteenth place.

After his active career, Bujak remained connected to skiing. Among other things, he was vice president of his club between 1935 and 1938 and later a member of the organizing committee of the World Championships in 1939 and 1962 .

Personal

Franciszek is the brother of the 1928 Olympian Józef and father of the seven-time Polish Alpine champion Anna . After his death, Bujak was buried in the New Cemetery in Zakopane .

Results

winter Olympics

• 1924 Chamonix : 27th place in 18 km cross-country skiing, DNF in Nordic combined, DNS in ski jumping

World championships

• 1925 Janské Lázně : 38th place in 18 km cross-country skiing
• 1927 Cortina d'Ampezzo : 14th place in 50 km cross-country skiing, 26th place in 18 km cross-country skiing
• 1929 Zakopane : 20th place in the downhill

Web links

Commons : Franciszek Bujak  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Franciszek Bujak on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• Franciszek Bujak in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Portrait at the Polish Olympic Committee (Polish)
• Franciszek Bujak on sportowahistoria.pl (Polish)
• Wojciech Szatkowski: Poczet skoczków polskich: Franciszek Bujak - Pierwszy mistrz Polski, skoczek i producent nart ... from March 1, 2006 on skijumping.pl (Polish)