Józef Różak

Józef Różak
Association	Poland
birthday	February 5, 1945
place of birth	Kościelisko
Career
job	farmer
society	WKS Legia Zakopane
Trainer	Stanisława Zięby
status	resigned
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 × PM medals 2 × 0 × 0 ×
Biathlon world championships bronze Hämeenlinna 1971 Season  Polish championships gold 1969 Season gold 1969 Cross-country skiing relay gold 1970 Season gold 1971 Cross-country skiing relay
World Cup balance
last change: end of career

Józef Różak (born February 5, 1945 in Kościelisko ) is a former Polish biathlete who successfully competed internationally in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Józef Różak was active for WKS Legia Zakopane , was trained by Stanisława Zięby and lives in Zakopane . The first international championship of the trained farmer was the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble , where he missed an Olympic medal by just one place alongside Andrzej Fiedor , Stanisław Łukaszczyk and Stanisław Szczepaniak as the starting runner of the relay in fourth place. The following year he was in Zakopane at home at the Biathlon World Championships in singles. In 1971 he was able to win the bronze medal in Hämeenlinna as a starting runner alongside Andrzej Rapacz , Aleksander Klima and Józef Stopka in the relay race behind the Soviet Union and Norway. In individual he was 26. The last major event was the second Olympic Winter Games in Sapporo in 1972 , where he came in seventh place as the starting runner of the relay on the side of Józef Stopka, Andrzej Rapacz and Aleksander Klima.

Nationally, Różak won the relay title in 1969 and 1970. In cross-country skiing he was relay champion in 1969 and 1971 and runner-up in 1965.

Web links

• Józef Różak in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Results at the-sports.org
• Portrait on the website of the Polish NOK (Polish)