Józef Daniel Krzeptowski

Józef Daniel Krzeptowski
nation	Poland
birthday	July 29, 1921
place of birth	Inowrocław ,  Poland
size	167 cm
Weight	75 kg
job	Craftsman trainer
date of death	August 13, 2002
Place of death	Zakopane , Poland
Career
discipline	Nordic combined cross-country skiing ski jumping
society	SN PTT Zakopane (1936–1950) CWKS Zakopane (1951–1956)
End of career	1956
Medal table
National medals 12 × 5 × 4 ×
Participant in the Nordic Combined  Polish championships silver 1947 Zakopane singles gold 1948 Karpacz singles gold 1949 Szczyrk singles gold 1950 Zakopane singles gold 1951 Zakopane singles silver 1952 Zakopane singles gold 1953 Zakopane singles gold 1954 Wisła singles gold 1955 Zakopane singles Participants in cross-country skiing  Polish championships bronze 1948 18 km bronze 1948 Season gold 1949 18 km silver 1949 Season gold 1950 18 km gold 1950 Season gold 1951 Season bronze 1951 18 km bronze 1953 18 km gold 1954 Season Participants in ski jumping  Polish championships silver 1947 Zakopane singles silver 1950 Zakopane singles

Józef Daniel Krzeptowski (born July 29, 1921 in Inowrocław , † August 13, 2002 in Zakopane ) was a Polish Nordic skier. He was Polish champion twelve times.

Career

At the beginning of his career, Daniel Krzeptowski started for SN PTT Zakopane , which was the most successful sports club in Zakopane at the time. He already demonstrated his talent among the juniors, but he had to interrupt his career due to the outbreak of World War II . After initially working as a courier, he came to France in 1940 , where he joined the Polish army . Daniel Krzeptowski was a prisoner of war in Stalag XI B from 1940 until the end of the war and a forced laborer in a coal mine .

After his release, Daniel Krzeptowski returned to sports. In 1947, for example, he took part in the International Ski Week in Chamonix , where he finished fifth in the combined competition. Daniel Krzeptowski demonstrated his versatility at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz when he was rated in all three Nordic skiing disciplines. He achieved his best individual result with 22nd place in the combination. At the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo in 1952 , he received an Olympic ID from the Olympic Committee, but did not take part in any competition. Four years later he went to the Olympic combined competition in Cortina d'Ampezzo and finished 29th with 396.1 points.

Daniel Krzeptowski won six competitions at the Czech Marusarzówna Memorial in Zakopane in his career , four of them in Nordic Combined and one each in ski jumping and 18 km cross-country skiing. At national level, he won a total of 21 medals and was Polish champion twelve times.

On November 17, 2000, he was appointed second lieutenant in the Polish army by the Polish President Aleksander Kwaśniewski . After his death in August 2002, he was buried in the New Cemetery in Zakopane .

Results

winter Olympics

Year and place	competition
	Nordic combination	Ski jumping	Cross-country skiing single	Cross-country skiing relay
1948 St. Moritz	22nd	30th	62.	10.
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo	29	-	-	-

Awards

• Armia Krajowa Cross ( Home Army Cross )
• Krzyż Czynu Bojowego Polskich Sił Zbrojnych na Zachodzie ( Cross of Combat Operations of the Polish Armed Forces in the West )
• Krzyż Partyzancki ( Partisan Cross )
• Medal Zwycięstwa i Wolności 1945 ( Medal of Victory and Freedom 1945 )
• Zasłużony Mistrz Sportu ( Honored Master of Sports )

Web links

• Józef Daniel Krzeptowski on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• Józef Daniel Krzeptowski in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Portrait at the Polish Olympic Committee (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Wojciech Szatkowski: Józef Krzeptowski - Daniel. In: skijumping.pl. August 15, 2003, accessed May 11, 2019 (Polish).