Ryszard Szary

Ryszard Szary
Association	Poland
birthday	March 28, 1979
place of birth	Żywiec
Career
status	resigned
End of career	2004 (?)
World Cup balance
last change: end of career

Ryszard Szary (born March 28, 1979 in Żywiec ) is a former Polish biathlete .

Ryszard Szary contested his first international races as part of the Biathlon Junior World Championships 1998 in Jericho , where he was ninth in the individual and 14th in the sprint. The next year's Biathlon Junior World Championships in Pokljuka were less successful . Szary was 56th in the individual, 58th in the sprint and seventh in relay with Michał Piecha , Bartłomiej Golec and Robert Ponikwia. In 2000 the Pole made his debut in the World Cup . In Oberhof he was 88th in a sprint race in his first race. In the same season he achieved his best result in a World Cup race as 70th of the sprint in Antholz . In 2001 in Haute-Maurienne , 2002 in Kontiolahti , 2003 in Forni Avoltri and 2004 in Minsk he took part in the European biathlon championships . It was a strong phase for the male biathletes in Poland, who were European champions in 2000 in Kościelisko as well as in 2001 and third in the relay in 2004. Szary did not manage to qualify for one of these successful relays against athletes like Tomasz Sikora , Wiesław Ziemianin , Krzysztof Topór , Wojciech Kozub , Michał Piecha or Grzegorz Bodziana . In 2001 he was 51st, in 2002 44th and 2003 36th of the individual. In 2003, he was placed 37 in the sprint and 43 in the pursuit. It was the only year in which he was also used in the relay. With Piecha, Ziemianin and Golec he was only 13th and thus achieved by far the worst Polish placement of that time. In 2004 he was 41st in the sprint and 35th in the pursuit. The year before, he also took part for the only time in the 2003 Biathlon World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk and finished 83rd in the individual and 77th in the sprint. At the end of his career, the 2004 Summer Biathlon World Championships in Osrblie , where Szary was 32nd in the sprint and 29th in the pursuit race and with Stanislaw Kępka Senior , Łukasz Witek and Maciej Wojciechowski was sixth in the relay race. He did not finish the mass start race.

Biathlon World Cup placements

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	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10
Scoring					4th	4th
Starts	4th	15th	4th		5	28
Status: end of career

Web links

• Ryszard Szary in the database of the IBU (English)