Franciszek Gąsienica Groń
Franciszek Gąsienica Groń 
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| birthday | September 30, 1931 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Zakopane | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| size | 170 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 66 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| date of death | July 31, 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Zakopane | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| society | TS Wisła Gwardia Zakopane | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Franciszek Gąsienica Groń (born September 30, 1931 in Zakopane ; † July 31, 2014 ibid) was a Polish Nordic combined athlete and most recently a coach.
Life
Groń attended secondary school in Zakopane and graduated from high school in Gliwice in 1952 . Later he studied at the Wroclaw Sports University . At the beginning of his sporting career he tried different sports. After no appropriate funding from the officers' school was to be expected, he asked for his release. He met Marian Woyny-Orlewicza, who brought him to ski jumping.
In 1956 Gąsienica Groń first took part in the Winter Olympics, which were held in Cortina d'Ampezzo . For the Polish Olympic team he qualified late by winning a combined competition in Les Brassus . In Cortina he showed a solid performance in combined jumping: after a fall and two good jumps, he finished tenth. During the next cross-country skiing he stayed in seventh place, but otherwise hardly appeared. Nevertheless, he reached third place in the final standings, just a few seconds behind second, Bengt Eriksson . Because of this surprising result, Gąsienica Groń was referred to as the “artist of combination mathematics” after the competition; the bronze medal is "a great honor" for the newcomer and outsider. Groń was also the first Pole to win a medal in a Nordic discipline at the Winter Olympics and also the only athlete in his country to make it into the top three at the Cortina Games.
Groń was Polish champion in Nordic combined in 1958, he was runner-up in 1956, 1957 and 1959; 1957 also in ski jumping .
From 1965 he was active as a trainer in Nordic combined and trained over 40 Polish champions in Nordic combined, jumping, cross-country skiing and relay.
He was the grandfather of the former ski jumper Tomasz Pochwała .
Web links
- Franciszek Gąsienica Groń in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Franciszek Gąsienica Groń in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Polish Olympic Committee, GĄSIENICA GROŃ FRANCISZEK ( Memento of the original from May 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 28, 2010
- ↑ Kurt Bernegger : Combination of jumping and cross-country skiing . In: Kurt Jeschko (Ed.): VII. Olympic Winter Games Cortina 1956 . Werner Riekmann publishing house, Baden 1956, p. 83.
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| SURNAME | Groń, Franciszek Gąsienica |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish Nordic combined skier and trainer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zakopane , Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 31, 2014 |
| Place of death | Zakopane , Poland |