Piotr Fijas

Piotr Fijas
Piotr Fijas 2011
Full name	Piotr Władysław Fijas
nation	Poland
birthday	June 27, 1958
place of birth	Bielsko-Biała
size	189 cm
Weight	80 kg
Career
society	BBTS Włókniarz Bielsko-Biała
National squad	since 1976
Pers. Best	194 m ( Planica 1987)
status	resigned
End of career	1988
Medal table
SFWM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × National medals 14 × 3 × 2 ×
Ski flying world championships bronze 1979 Planica singles  Polish championships gold 1979 Zakopane K115 gold 1980 Szczyrk K70 silver 1980 Wisła K105 silver 1981 Zakopane K115 gold 1982 Zakopane K115 gold 1983 Wisła K105 gold 1983 Zakopane Team K115 silver 1983 Zakopane K82 gold 1984 Zakopane K82 gold 1984 Zakopane K115 gold 1985 Szczyrk K70 gold 1985 Wisła K105 gold 1986 Zakopane K82 gold 1986 Zakopane K115 gold 1987 Wisła K105 gold 1987 Szczyrk K70 gold 1988 Zakopane K115 bronze 1988 Zakopane K82 bronze 1988 Zakopane Team K115
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 30, 1979
World Cup victories (individual)	03 ( details )
Overall World Cup	14. ( 1984/85 )
Four Hills Tournament	07. ( 1984/85 , 1985/86 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 3 1 4th  Ski flying 0 0 2

Piotr Władysław Fijas (born June 27, 1958 in Bielsko-Biała ) is a former Polish ski jumper and today's ski jumping coach.

Career

Piotr Fijas began as a teenager with ski jumping in his home club BBTS Włókniarz Bielsko-Biała . His first trainer was Jakub Węgrzynkiewicz , who participated in the 1952 Winter Olympics . At the age of 18, he was called up to the Polish national team in 1976, but could not qualify for the Olympic Games in Innsbruck . His first participation in a major event was in 1978 at the Nordic World Ski Championships in the Finnish Lahti , where he reached the 18th place on the large hill.

In March 1979 Fijas won the Polish championship for the first time in Zakopane . In total he was able to win the title five times on the normal hill and eight times on the large hill. In addition, he was runner-up three times and third once. This makes him runner-up in the winter record behind Adam Małysz .

Fijas took part in the Olympic Games three times for Poland: Lake Placid in 1980 , Sarajevo in 1984 and Calgary in 1988 . His greatest Olympic success was the 7th place on the normal hill in Sarajevo in 1984 . After the 1988 Games in Calgary , he had to end his career due to an injury. In total, he won three world cup competitions.

However, Fijas did not achieve his greatest successes on the ski jumps, but on the flying hills. In 1979 he won the bronze medal at the ski flying world championships in Planica . In 1987 he also flew a new ski flying world record in Planica with 194 m . This world record lasted seven years.

Fijas is currently the assistant coach of the Polish national team.

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	January 27, 1980	Zakopane	Large hill
2.	February 9, 1980	St. Nizier	Large hill
3.	January 12, 1986	Liberec	Large hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1979/80	16.	73
1980/81	44.	16
1981/82	26th	31
1982/83	43.	12
1983/84	17th	57
1984/85	14th	69
1985/86	15th	84
1986/87	31.	24
1987/88	55.	08th

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Vikersund	Norway	163.0 m ( HS : 225 m)	February 15, 1986	February 20, 1990
Planica	Slovenia	194.0 m ( HS : 225 m)	March 14, 1987	March 17, 1994

Trivia

Fijas' record jump was recognized as a world record, but at the time of the jump not with the actual distance of 194 m, but with 191 m. At that time, the FIS “frozen” the ski flying world record at 191 m because it believed that this would prevent dangerous long-range hunting. Only a few years later, the width was officially rated at 194 m.

Web links

• Piotr Fijas in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Piotr Fijas in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )