1956 Winter Olympics / Participant (Poland)

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Poland took part in the VII Winter Olympics in 1956 in the Italian municipality of Cortina d'Ampezzo with a delegation of 51 athletes in six disciplines, of which 44 were men and 7 women. With bronze, Franciszek Gąsienica Groń wonthe only medal for Poland in the Nordic Combined at these games.

Participants by sport

bob

Men, twos

• Aleksy Konieczny , Zbigniew Skowroński (POL-1)

  19th place (5: 50.85 min)

• Stefan Ciapała , Aleksander Habala (POL-2)

  16th place (5: 46.35 min)

Men, foursome

• Stefan Ciapała , Jerzy Olesiak , Józef Szymański , Aleksander Habala (POL-1)

  15th place (5: 23.49 min)

• Aleksy Konieczny , Zygmunt Konieczny , Włodzimierz Źróbik , Zbigniew Skowroński , Jan Dąbrowski (POL-2)

  21st place (5: 28.40 min)

ice Hockey

Men

Wladyslaw Pabisz Edward Kocząb Janusz Zawadzki Kazimierz Chodakowski Stanislaw Olczyk Mieczysław Chmura Henryk Bromowicz Józef Kurek Zdzisław Nowak

Szymon Janiczko Adolf Wróbel Kazimierz Bryniarski Marian Herda Hilary Skarżyński Bronisław Gosztyła Rudolf Czech Alfred Wróbel

• 8th place

Nordic combination

• Franciszek Gąsienica Groń

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): Bronze (436,800)

• Aleksander Kowalski

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 15th place (422,200)

• Józef Daniel Krzeptowski

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 29th place (396.100)

• Jan Raszka

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 32nd place (387,900)

Alpine skiing

Men

• Andrzej Gąsienica Roj

  Departure: 15th place (3: 09.3 min)

  Giant Slalom: 54th place (3: 48.6 min)

  Slalom: 23rd place (3: 55.8 min)

• Jan Zarycki

  Departure: disqualified

  Giant Slalom: 23rd place (3: 22.3 min)

  Slalom: disqualified

• Włodzimierz Czarniak

  Giant Slalom: 28th place (3: 24.2 min)

• Józef Marusarz

  Giant Slalom: 35th place (3: 29.3 min)

• Jan Gąsienica Ciaptak

  Slalom: 16th place (3: 40.0 min)

Women

• Maria Gąsienica Daniel-Szatkowska

  Departure: eliminated

  Giant Slalom: 35th place (2: 10.9 min)

  Slalom: disqualified

• Barbara Grocholska

  Downhill: 17th place (1: 51.7 min)

  Giant Slalom: 30th place (2: 05.5 min)

• Maria Kowalska

  Downhill: 19th place (1: 51.9 min)

  Giant Slalom: 20th place (2: 02.8 min)

  Slalom: 22nd place (2: 21.7 min)

Cross-country skiing

Men

• Józef Gąsienica Sobczak

  15 km: 44th place (56:39 min)

  4 × 10 km relay: 9th place (2:25:55 h)

• Tadeusz Kwapień

  15 km: 16th place (52:45 min)

  30 km: 12th place (1:49:09 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: 9th place (2:25:55 h)

• Andrzej Mateja

  15 km: 23rd place (53:42 min)

  4 × 10 km relay: 9th place (2:25:55 h)

• Józef Rubiś

  15 km: 34th place (54:47 min)

  30 km: 23rd place (1:53:57 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: 9th place (2:25:55 h)

• Stanislaw Bukowski

  30 km: 29th place (1:56:26 h)

  50 km: 13th place (3:10:49 h)

Women

• Józefa Czerniawska-Pęksa

  10 km: 17th place (41:28 min)

  3 × 5 km relay: 5th place (1:13:20 h)

• Maria Gąsienica Bukowa-Kowalska

  10 km: 16th place (41:09 min)

  3 × 5 km relay: 5th place (1:13:20 h)

• Helena Gąsienica Daniel

  10 km: 24th place (43:09 min)

• Zofia Krzeptowska

  10 km: 18th place (41:37 min)

  3 × 5 km relay: 5th place (1:13:20 h)

Ski jumping

• Andrzej Gąsienica Daniel

  Normal hill: 20th place (198.5)

• Józef Huczek

  Normal hill: 30th place (185.0)

• Roman Gąsienica Sieczka

  Normal hill: 25th place (189.5)

• Wladyslaw Tajner

  Normal hill: 16th place (201.0)

Web links

• Poland at the 1956 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )