Wojciech Fortuna

Wojciech Fortuna
Wojciech Fortuna 2007
nation	Poland
birthday	August 6, 1952
place of birth	Zakopane ,  Poland
size	165 cm
Weight	60 kg
Career
society	TS Wisła Gwardia Zakopane
Pers. Best	132 m (Planica 1972)
status	resigned
End of career	1975
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 0 × PM medals 1 × 0 × 2 ×
winter Olympics gold 1972 Sapporo Large hill  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 1972 Sapporo Large hill  Polish championships gold 1972 Zakopane Large hill bronze 1973 Wisła Large hill bronze 1974 Zakopane Normal hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Four Hills Tournament	18th ( 1972/73 )

Wojciech Fortuna (born August 6, 1952 in Zakopane ) is a former Polish ski jumper and Olympic champion.

Career

Fortuna began his international career at the Four Hills Tournament 1971/72 . He achieved his best placement with 18th place in Bischofshofen . In the end, he finished 23rd in the overall ranking. Shortly afterwards, he surprisingly won the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo with jumps on 111.0 and 87.5 meters on the large hill. He reached sixth place from the normal hill. Since the competitions in Sapporo were held at the same time as the Nordic World Ski Championships, his Olympic gold also meant the world championship title . The otherwise rather average jumper could no longer build on this success. Fortuna won the first and, up to the 2010 Winter Olympics , the only gold medal for Poland at the Winter Olympics. At the Four Hills Tournament in 1972/73 he was able to achieve his best individual result on a tour with 10th place in Partenkirchen . In the end, he finished 18th overall. He could not repeat this performance again, so that he ended his active ski jumping career after the Four Hills Tournament 1974/75 .

Until 2000, when Adam Małysz started his successful career just as unexpectedly with a victory at the Four Hills Tournament , he was considered the best Polish ski jumper.

In 2015 he sold his Olympic gold medal for $ 50,000 and donated the money to seriously injured athletes Nicholas Fairall and Natalia Czerwonka .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rekordy życiowe skoczków narciarskich ( Polish ) skokinarciarskie.pl. February 3, 2013. Retrieved February 3, 2013.
2. ^ Four Hills Tournament 1971/72 . eskijumping.com. Retrieved October 15, 2010.
3. ↑ Sport1.de: Wojciech Fortuna sells his gold medal for Nicholas Fairall. In: sport1.de. March 5, 2015, accessed May 24, 2016 .