Leopold Tajner

Leopold Tajner
nation	Poland
birthday	May 15, 1921
place of birth	Roztropice ,  Poland
date of death	February 25, 1993
Place of death	Wisła ,  Poland
Career
discipline	Ski jumping Nordic combined cross-country skiing
society	KS Watra Cieszyn (1946–1949) Budowlani Goleszów (1950–1952)
End of career	1960
Medal table
National medals 0 × 2 × 3 ×
Polish championships silver 1949 Szczyrk Single SP bronze 1951 Zakopane Single SP  Polish championships bronze 1947 Zakopane Single NK bronze 1949 Szczyrk Single NK silver 1950 Zakopane Single NK

Leopold Tajner (born May 15, 1921 in Roztropice , Second Polish Republic , † February 25, 1993 in Wisła ) was a Polish Nordic skier.

Career

Tajner won a total of five medals at the national level. However, he never won the championship title. At the Czech-Marusarz Memorial in Zakopane , his best individual result was second place in 1951 behind Jan Kula . A few weeks earlier, he won the special jumping event on the international level as part of the II Winter Sports Championships of the German Democratic Republic from the large Thuringian ski jump in Oberhof .

Tajner took part in the Winter Olympics twice. At the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz , he took 34th place in the Nordic Combined competition and 76th place in the 18 km cross-country skiing . Four years later he only competed in ski jumping at the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo in 1952 and reached 39th place.

Leopold was the brother of Władysław Tajner , the father of the incumbent President of the Polish Ski Association Apoloniusz Tajner and the grandfather of Tomisław Tajner .

Results

winter Olympics

Year and place	competition
	Ski jumping	Nordic combination	Cross-country skiing single
1948 St. Moritz	-	34.	76.
1952 Oslo	39.	-	-

Web links

• Leopold Tajner on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• Leopold Tajner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Leopold Tajner in the database of wyniki-skoki.hostingasp.pl (Polish)
• Leopold Tajner on skijumping.pl (Polish)
• Portrait at the Polish Olympic Committee (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tajner's jumps were enthusiastic. Excellent performance at the special jumping event in Oberhof. In: Neues Deutschland from February 13, 1951.