Piotr Kolesar

Piotr Kolesar
Kolesar (1934)
nation	Poland
birthday	June 14, 1910
place of birth	Zakopane ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death	March 1940
Place of death	Zakopane,  Poland
Career
society	TS Wisła Zakopane
National squad	since 1929
Medal table
Polish championships 0 × 1 × 1 ×
Polish championships silver 1933 Zakopane singles bronze 1937 Wisla singles

Piotr Kolesar (born June 14, 1910 in Zakopane , † March 1940 ibid) was a Polish ski jumper .

Career

Kolesar, who started for TS Wisła Zakopane , took part in a total of five Nordic World Ski Championships . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1929 in Zakopane , he finished 30th after jumps on 39.0 and 41.0 meters. Four years later, his hopes for a top place were soon exhausted, as he fell in the first round of the jumping competition in 1933 and finally reached 61st place with widths of 54.0 and 56.0 meters. A week later, Kolesar won his first national medal when he finished second behind Stanisław Marusarz from Wielka Krokiew . At the World Championships in Sollefteå in 1934 , Kolesar finished 34th, while in 1935 in Vysoké Tatry he ranked 27th. In January 1937 he won the bronze medal at the Polish championships from the Łabajów in Wisła . He achieved his best world championship result when he last participated in Zakopane in 1939 with 22nd place after jumps on 57.0 and 65.0 meters.

assassination

Kolesar acted as a courier in an underground movement during World War II . Finally, he was arrested because of complicity in courier transfers and in March 1940 during the investigation into the palace of the Gestapo - headquarters murdered in Zakopane.

Web links

Commons : Piotr Kolesar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography of Piotr Kolesar in the historiawisly.pl database (Polish)
• Results of Piotr Kolesar in the database of wyniki-skoki.hostingasp.pl (Polish)