Jan Szpunar

Jan Szpunar
Association	Poland
birthday	October 30, 1952
place of birth	Kościelisko
date of death	17th March 2017
Career
society	Legia Zakopane
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 × JWM medals 3 × 0 × 0 × PM medals 1 × ? × ? ×
Biathlon world championships bronze Antholz 1975 Season  Biathlon Junior World Championships gold 1972 Linthal Season gold 1973 Lake Placid singles gold 1973 Lake Placid Season  Polish championships gold 1974 singles
World Cup balance
last change: end of career

Jan Szpunar (born October 30, 1952 in Kościelisko ; † March 17, 2017 ) was a Polish biathlete who successfully competed internationally in the mid-1970s.

Life

Jan Szpunar was active for Legia Zakopane. He had his first successes as a junior. At the Junior World Championships in Linthal in 1972 , he won the gold medal in the relay race against the Soviet Union and the GDR on the side of Stanisław Karpiel and Ludwik Zięba . At the Junior World Championships in 1973 he repeated this success with Stanislaw Obrochta and Ludwig Zięba in Lake Placid before Finland and the Soviet Union. He was also Junior World Champion in singles ahead of Frank Pötter and Obrochta.

In 1975 Szpunar took part in the biathlon world championships for the first time in Antholz and won the bronze medal as a starting runner with Andrzej Rapacz , Ludwik Zięba and Wojciech Truchan in the relay race behind Finland and the Soviet Union. In the individual he was 24th, in the sprint 16. A year later he was at the Olympic Games in Innsbruck 19th of the individual and with Andrzej Rapacz, Ludwik Zięba and Wojciech Truchan in the relay race 12th In the last non-Olympic sprint, the world championship was held, Szpunar finished 13th. Nationally, Szpunar won the individual title in 1974.

Results in the biathlon world cup

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place						1	1
Top 10						1	1
Scoring	2	2				1	5
Starts	2	2				1	5
Status : data incomplete

Web links

• Jan Szpunar in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Results in the database of the-sports.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Zmarł Jan Szpunar olimpijczyk z Insbrucku 1976, medalista Mistrzostw Świata. In: skipol.pl. March 18, 2017, Retrieved March 21, 2017 (Polish).