Zbysław Zając

Zbysław Zając

To person
Date of birth	September 9, 1933
date of death	7th January 1985
nation	Poland
discipline	Train (short term)
End of career	1965
Societies)
1952-54, 1958-60 1955-57 1961-65	Czarni Szczecin CWKS Legia Warsaw Ogniwa Szczecin
Team (s) as coach
	National team Poland
Last updated: April 1st, 2018

Zbysław Zając (born September 9, 1933 in Rożny , † January 7, 1985 in Szczecin (Stettin) ) was a Polish track cyclist and cycling trainer .

Athletic career

Zbysław Zając was active as a cyclist in track cycling from 1952 to 1965, specializing in the short-term disciplines. During these years he was Polish champion seven times in the sprint on the track, twice on the tandem and in 1954 once in the team pursuit with the team of the CWKS Warsaw club over four kilometers. In 1955, 1956, 1958 and 1962 he was runner-up in the sprint. He set a national record over 200 meters five times. This makes him the best sprinter from Poland so far at national level (as of 2017). In his career he was a member of two clubs in his hometown, from 1952–1954 and 1958–1960 with the Czarni club, and from 1961–1965 with Ogniwa Szczecin. His coach was the former track sprinter Joseph Kupczak .

Zając was the first sprinter from Poland who was also successful internationally; Ten times he took part in the UCI track world championships between 1955 and 1965 , but could not achieve a front placement. In 1964 he started at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in this discipline and was eliminated in the quarterfinals against the French and later bronze medalist Daniel Morelon . He won the Sprint Grand Prix twice (1963 and 1964). At the Grand Prix of the GDR , he was in 1962 and 1964 successfully. Zając was the first Polish track sprinter to win a sprinter award in Western Europe (1962 in Aarhus, Denmark).

Professional

Zbysław Zając completed his initial training as an electrical mechanic, and later graduated as an electrical engineer from the Technical University of Szczecin. After finishing his active sports career, Zając was coach of the Polish national track team.

Honors

Zając was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Odrodzenia Polski . 1988 was velodrome in Szczecin after him in the gate Kolarski. Zbysława Zająca named.

Private

He was married with a daughter and died of cancer. He is buried in field 92a at the central cemetery in Stettin .

successes

1954

• Polish champion in team pursuit

1957

• Polish champion in sprint

1959

• Polish champion in sprint

1960

• Polish champion in sprint

1961

• Polish champion in sprint

1963

• Polish champion in sprint and tandem

1964

• Polish champion in sprint and tandem

1965

• Polish champion in sprint

Web links

• Zbysław Zając in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Zbysław Zając in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Biography of Zbysław Zając. In: Polski Komitet Olimpijski. Retrieved April 1, 2018 (Polish). 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Cycling Week . No. 44/1954 . Sportverlag, Berlin 1954, p. 10 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Biography of Zbysław Zając. In: Polski Komitet Olimpijski. Retrieved April 1, 2018 (Polish). 
3. ↑ Zbyslaw Zając in the archives of Gazety Wyborczej. Retrieved March 30, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Najważniejsze polskie cmentarze - tu leżą słynni Polacy. In: polskazachwyca.pl. November 1, 2017, accessed April 1, 2018 .