Janusz Guńka

Janusz Guńka
nation	Poland
birthday	1st January 1961 (age 59)
place of birth	Chochołów ,  Poland
Career
society	TS Wisła Zakopane
status	resigned
End of career	1988
Medal table
National medals 4 × 4 × 2 ×
Polish championships gold 1982 Zakopane team silver 1982 Zakopane singles silver 1983 Zakopane team gold 1985 Wisła team silver 1985 Wisła singles silver 1986 Zakopane / Szczyrk singles gold 1987 Wisła / Szczyrk team bronze 1987 Wisła / Szczyrk singles gold 1988 Zakopane team bronze 1988 Zakopane singles
Placements in the World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	December 29, 1983

Janusz Guńka (born January 1, 1961 in Chochołów ) is a former Polish Nordic combined athlete .

Career

Guńka and represented Wisła-Gwardia Zakopane in his career . At the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in 1977 in St. Croix , he finished 29th in ski jumping . A year later he placed 41st at the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in Murau in 1978 . In February 1979 he won the ski jumping competition of the Winter Spartakiade in Borşa in front of the East German athletes Norbert Maischke and Olaf Schmidt .

For most of his career Guńka was active as a Nordic combined skier. For example, he reached eighth place with the team at the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in 1980 in Örnsköldsvik . In December 1983 he started in Oberwiesenthal in the World Cup , but missed the points. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1985 in Seefeld , he finished sixth together with Tadeusz Bafia and Karol Kołtaś . Two years later he reached tenth place at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1987 in Oberstdorf, together with Stanisław Ustupski and Tadeusz Bafia .

At national level he won five medals in the Nordic combined, but could only win the championship title with the team.

Personal

Guńka's wife Halina Guńka is a former cross-country skier , biathlete and Olympian. It is very likely that Ryszard Guńka was his brother. After his career, he moved to Thunder Bay .

Web links

• Janusz Guńka in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Janusz Guńka in the database of wyniki-skoki.hostingasp.pl (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Janusz Guńka on spchocholow.pl, accessed on September 27, 2019 (Polish).
2. ↑ Halina Nowak-Guńka , portrait at the Polish Olympic Committee, accessed on September 27, 2019 (Polish).
3. ↑ Tomasz Kalemba: MŚ: w Seefeld polska drużyna osiągnęła najlepszy wynik w historii, cuda wyczyniał Tadeusz Bafia. In: sport.onet.pl. February 21, 2019, accessed September 27, 2019 (Polish).