Ludwik Zięba

Ludwik Zięba
Association	Poland
birthday	March 5, 1953
place of birth	Koniówka
Career
society	WKS Legia Zakopane
status	resigned
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 × JWM medals 2 × 1 × 1 × PM medals 1 × 4 × 0 ×
Biathlon world championships bronze Antholz 1975 Season  Biathlon Junior World Championships silver 1971 Hämeenlinna singles gold 1972 Linthal Season gold 1973 Lake Placid Season bronze 1974 Minsk Season  Polish championships gold 1976 Season silver 1976 singles silver 1979 singles silver 1980 Season silver 1981 Season
World Cup balance
last change: end of career

Ludwik Zięba (born March 5, 1953 in Koniówka ) is a former Polish biathlete who successfully competed internationally in the mid-1970s.

Ludwik Zięba was active for WKS Legia Zakopane. He had his first successes as a junior. At the Junior World Championships in 1971 Hämeenlinna , he was the individual behind Jan Tschauers silver medalist. At the 1972 Biathlon Junior World Championships in Linthal he won the gold medal in the relay race against the Soviet Union and the GDR alongside Stanisław Karpiel and Jan Szpunar . At the Biathlon Junior World Championships in 1973 he repeated this success with Stanislaw Obrochta and Jan Szpunar in Lake Placid before Finland and the Soviet Union. At the Biathlon Junior World Championships in 1974 in Minsk , he won relay bronze with Stanislaw Obrochta and Wojciech Truchan behind Finland and the GDR.

In 1975 Zięba competed in the Biathlon World Championships for the first time in Antholz and won the bronze medal with Jan Szpunar, Andrzej Rapacz and Wojciech Truchan in the relay race behind Finland and the Soviet Union. In the individual he was tenth, in the sprint he finished 36th. A year later he was twelfth in the relay race at the Olympic Games in Innsbruck with Jan Szpunar, Andrzej Rapacz and Wojciech Truchan. In the last non-Olympic sprint, which was held as a world championship, Zięba finished 47th.

Nationally, Zięba won five junior titles. He also achieved success with the men: in 1976 he won the title at the Polish championships with the national relay. In individual he was runner-up in 1976 and 1979, as well as with the relay of WKS Zakopane in 1980 and 1981.

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	2
Scoring	1					1	2
Starts	1	2				1	4th
Status : data incomplete

Web links

• Ludwik Zięba in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Results at the-sports.org