Stanislaw Marusarz

Stanislaw Marusarz
nation	Poland
birthday	June 18, 1913
place of birth	Zakopane ,  Poland
size	180 cm
Weight	76 kg
date of death	October 29, 1993
Place of death	Zakopane ,  Poland
Career
discipline	Ski jumping Nordic combined cross-country skiing
society	SN PTT Zakopane Legia Zakopane
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × National Medals (SP) 11 × 1 × 1 × National Medals (NK) 4 × 2 × 1 ×
Nordic World Ski Championships silver 1938 Lahti K90  Polish championships silver 1931 Wisla singles gold 1932 Zakopane singles gold 1933 Zakopane singles gold 1935 Zakopane singles gold 1936 Zakopane singles gold 1937 Wisla singles gold 1939 Zakopane singles gold 1946 Zakopane singles gold 1948 Karpacz singles gold 1949 Szczyrk singles gold 1951 Zakopane singles gold 1952 Zakopane singles bronze 1955 Zakopane singles

Stanisław Marusarz (born June 18, 1913 in Zakopane ; † October 29, 1993 ibid) was a Polish skier who was active in ski jumping , cross-country skiing and Nordic combined . In 1938 he became vice world champion ski jumping, later he was a member of the Tatra mountain guards .

Career

At the Olympic Winter Games in 1932 he reached the 27th place in 18 km cross-country skiing and 17th place in ski jumping. After some successes on a national level, Marusarz gained international attention in 1935 when he set a new world record in ski jumping with a length of 87.5 meters, thereby endangering the Norwegian supremacy in the sport. A first comparison with the strongest Norwegians, the brothers Birger and Asbjørn Ruud , came about at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen; here Marusarz was fifth in ski jumping, and he also reached seventh place in Nordic combined.

The Nordic World Ski Championships in 1938 in Lahti , Finland, was the highlight of his career. He managed the longest jump with 66, then 67 meters in both rounds of the special jump. Nevertheless, with a total of 226.4 points, he was second only 0.2 points behind Asbjörn Ruud, who jumped only 63.5 and 64 meters, but received far better marks from the judges. At the award ceremony, Ruud is said to have considered whether to give Marusarz the gold medal for this dubious outcome, but was ultimately content with declaring him the “moral winner”. After all, Marusarz was named Poland's Sportsman of the Year in the same year .

The following year the World Cup was held in his hometown of Zakopane; due to an arm injury, however, he was weakened and only reached fifth place in jumping. Shortly after Germany attacked Poland, Maruselz joined the Polish Home Army . He was captured by the Wehrmacht in 1940 and sentenced to death; however, he managed to flee (with a spectacular jump out of the moving train) and to get to Hungary , where he persevered until the end of the war.

After the end of the war he continued his winter sports career, but could not build on his earlier successes. At the Olympic Winter Games in St. Moritz in 1948 , he only started in ski jumping and reached 27th place. At the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo in 1952 , he reached 27th place in individual jumping, tied with Japanese Tatsuo Watanabe . Ten years later he still reached 66 meters when he was asked to do an “honor jump” by the organizers of the Four Hills Tournament.

Marusarz won a total of twelve Polish championship titles in ski jumping between 1932 and 1952 . In addition, he was four times champion in Nordic combined.

successes

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Planica	Slovenia	95.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	1935	1935

literature

• Jens Jahn , Egon Theiner : Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping . 1st edition. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-099-5 .
• Arkadius Stempin: Stanisław Marusarz - Polish ski legend and resistance fighter , in: Diethelm Blecking , Lorenz Peiffer (ed.) Sportsman in the "Century of the Camps". Profiteers, resistors and victims. Göttingen: Die Werkstatt, 2012, pp. 206–212

Web links

Commons : Stanisław Marusarz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Stanisław Marusarz in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - Ski jumping
• Stanisław Marusarz in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
• Wojciech Zabłocki : Wartime adventures of Stanislaw Marusarz & his awards , in: Journal of Olympic History, vol. 11, September 2003, No. 3, pp. 22-25

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 82
2. ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 83
3. ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 154
4. ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 155
5. ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 84
6. ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 85
7. ^ Wyniki Mistrzostw Polski - 1920-2002 . skijumping.pl. Archived from the original on November 16, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 1, 2014.