Józef Gąsienica Sobczak

Józef Gąsienica Sobczak
Association	Poland
birthday	July 9, 1934
place of birth	Kościelisko
Career
society	Legia Zakopane
status	resigned
End of career	1968 (?)
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 2 × 1 ×
World championships bronze 1965 Elverum Season silver 1966 Garmisch-Partenkirchen singles silver 1966 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Season
World Cup balance
last change: October 18, 2009

Józef Gąsienica Sobczak (born July 9, 1934 in Kościelisko ) is a former Polish cross-country skier and biathlete who took part in four Winter Olympic Games .

Józef Gąsienica Sobczak started for Legia Zakopane . In 1956 he took part in cross-country skiing in the Olympic Winter Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo for the first time and finished 44th over 15 kilometers and nine with Józef Rubiś , Tadeusz Kwapień and Andrzej Mateja in the relay race. In 1960 he competed in Squaw Valley over 30 kilometers and was 34. Then Gąsienica Sobczak switched to biathlon. Already at the next Olympic Games in Innsbruck he competed in his new sport and was 20th in the individual. At the Biathlon World Championship in Elverum in 1965 , the Pole won the bronze medal in the last unofficial competition with the relay of his country to which Stanisław Szczepaniak and Rubiś belonged, behind the relay from Norway and the Soviet Union. In the individual he was also sixth. A year later Gąsienica Sobczak won in Garmisch-Partenkirchen behind Jon Istad and in front of Wladimir Gundarzew the silver medal in the individual and silver behind Norway with Szczepaniak, Rubiś and Stanisław Łukaszczyk in the relay race. The last major event was his fourth Olympic Games in Grenoble , where Gąsienica Sobczak started in the individual but did not finish the race.

Web links

• Józef Gąsienica Sobczak in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )