Wojciech Matusiak

Wojciech Matusiak

Wojciech Matusiak (born June 2, 1945 in Sieraków ) is a former  Polish cyclist and national champion in cycling .

Athletic career

Matusiak was a strong driver in stage races , he drove a variety of country tours for amateurs in Europe . In 1967 he won the Polish road racing championship , followed by a stage win in the Tour of Poland . Two years later he won the domestic tour in front of Zygmunt Hanusik .

In 1968 he was a participant in the Summer Olympics in Mexico City and drove there in the team pursuit . In 1967 and 1969 he was Polish champion in team pursuit on the track . In 1969 and 1970 he also won the couple time trial title .

He competed three times in the International Peace Tour , won a stage in 1970 and finished 9th in 1970, his best overall result. That year he was also able to win the Tour of Scotland. At the tour Dookola Mazowska 1971 he was only just beaten by Zenon Czechowski . In 1973 he finished 5th at the UCI Road World Championships when his compatriot Ryszard Szurkowski won. After he had won another stage in the Tour of Poland, he ended his career at the end of the 1979 season.

He starts for the LZS Gryf Szczecin club.

Professional

After his career worked as a trainer in cycling in Szczecin . 2

Web links

• Wojciech Matusiak in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Wojciech Matusiak in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maik Märtin: 50 years of Course de la Paix . Agency Construct, Leipzig 1998, p. 247 .
2. ↑ Biography • Polski Komitet Olimpijski. In: olimpijski.pl. Retrieved May 19, 2020 (Polish). 
3. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 42/1970 . Berlin 1970, p. 8 .