Piotr Nurowski

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Piotr Nurowski (2007)

Piotr Jan Nurowski (born June 20, 1945 in Sandomierz , † April 10, 2010 in Smolensk ) was a Polish sports official, diplomat and businessman.

Life

Piotr Nurowski studied law at the University of Warsaw and graduated in 1967. He worked briefly as a sports reporter at the Polish State Radio . In 1972 Nurowski was first elected Vice President of the Polish Athletics Association , responsible for youth work, and one year later was elected President, making him the youngest chairman of a national sports association worldwide. He remained in this position until 1976 and took it over again from 1978 to 1980.

In 1981 Nurowski became an employee of the Polish Foreign Office. As a diplomat he worked in Moscow from 1981 to 1984 . From 1986 to 1991 he was counselor in Rabat , Morocco . Since 1991 he has worked for several companies of the entrepreneur Zygmunt Solorz-Żak . Nurowski was involved in the creation of the private television station Polsat and was a board member at Polsat from 1992 to 1998. Since 1998 he has been a member of the Supervisory Board.

In February 2005, Piotr Nurowski was elected President of the Polish Olympic Committee .

On April 10, 2010, Piotr Nurowski was part of a Polish delegation led by President Lech Kaczyński , who was to travel to the memorial in Russia on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the Katyn massacre . In the plane crash of the delegation near the Smolensk-Nord military airfield , however, he was killed along with other high-ranking representatives of Poland. As President of the Polish Olympic Committee, Nurowski wanted to commemorate the Polish athletes murdered in Katyn.

Posthumously Nurowski was the Officer's Cross of the 16 April 2010 Order of Polonia Restituta (Krzyź Oficerski Orderu Rebirth of Poland) awarded. On April 19, 2010, Piotr Nurowski was buried in the Powązki Communal Cemetery in Warsaw . Numerous athletes such as Anita Włodarczyk and Tomasz Majewski as well as the Vice-President of the Polish Olympic Committee Irena Szewińska took part in the memorial service in St. Anne's Church in Warsaw . Sports Minister Adam Giersz gave the funeral speech of the Polish government .

Piotr Nurowski Prize

Since 2011, the European Olympic Committee has awarded the Piotr Nurowski Prize to young European athletes every year at the EOC General Assembly .

Web links

Commons : Piotr Nurowski  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biuro Prasowe Kancelarii Sejmu (Press Office of the Sejm): Komunikat No. 163 / VI kad. , accessed April 18, 2010
  2. ↑ TVN24
  3. ↑ Executive Board of the EOC met in Berlin (December 14, 2010)
personal data
SURNAME Nurowski, Piotr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nurowski, Piotr Jan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish sports official, diplomat and businessman
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Sandomierz
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 2010
Place of death Smolensk