Wladyslaw Mietelski

Wladyslaw Mietelski
Mietelski (first from left) in Krakow in 1927
Full name	Wladyslaw Tomasz Mietelski
nation	Poland
birthday	December 21, 1906
place of birth	Passaic , New Jersey ,  USA
date of death	1991
Place of death	Cook County , Illinois ,  USA
Career
society	TS Wisła Zakopane
National squad	since 1927
End of career	1937
Medal table
National medals 0 × 1 × 1 ×
Participants in ski jumping  Polish championships bronze 1929 Zakopane singles Participants in cross-country skiing  Polish championships silver 1931 Zakopane 5 × 10 km relay

Władysław Tomasz Mietelski (born December 21, 1906 in Passaic , New Jersey , † 1991 in Cook County , Illinois ) was a Polish ski jumper .

Career

In 1926, Mietelski was a co-founder of the TS Wisła Zakopane ski club . As a substitute, he was a member of the Polish ski jumping team at the Olympic Winter Games in St. Moritz in 1928 , but was not used. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Zakopane in 1929 , he finished 23rd from the Wielka Krokiew . The jumping functioned at the same time as a competition for the Polish championships , so Mietelski won bronze as the third best Pole. In the 5 × 10 km relay race at the Polish championships in 1931, he won the silver medal. Mietelski, who was born in the United States , was a private in the US Army .

Web links and literature

Commons : Władysław Mietelski  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ryszard Wryk: Olimpijczycy Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej. Poznań: Nauka i Innowacje , 2015, pp. 433–434. ISBN 978-83-64864-22-3
• Władysław Mietelski on historiawisly.pl (Polish)
• Władysław Mietelski in the database of wyniki-skoki.hostingasp.pl (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 80 lat TS Wisła Zakopane , on podhale-sport.pl, from August 23, 2006, accessed on October 4, 2019 (Polish).
2. ^ Edward S. Evans: The Age of Air , in: Popular Mechanics , December 1942, p. 54 , accessed October 4, 2019.