Zdzisław Hryniewiecki

Zdzisław Hryniewiecki
nation	Poland
birthday	September 1, 1938
place of birth	Lviv ,  Poland
date of death	17th November 1981
Place of death	Bielsko-Biała , Poland
Career
society	BBTS Bielsko-Biała
Trainer	Mieczysław Kozdruń
Pers. Best	116.0 m ( Bad Mitterndorf 1959)
End of career	1960
Medal table
National medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Polish championships gold 1959 Zakopane singles

Zdzisław "Dzidek" Hryniewiecki (born September 1, 1938 in Lviv , Lviv Voivodeship , Poland ; † November 17, 1981 in Bielsko-Biała ) was a Polish ski jumper . In 1959 he won the Polish championship title on the large hill. Hryniewiecki was considered one of the world's most talented ski jumpers, but he had to end his career after a serious fall at the age of 21.

Career

Even in his youth, Hryniewiecki was a diverse athlete. After he had to leave Lviv with his family after the Second World War , he settled in Bielsko-Biała . There he started early to take part in swimming as well as skiing . Ultimately, he decided to ski jumping and from then on started for BBTS Bielsko-Biała . At the junior championships, his best placement was fourth in Zakopane in 1957.

Hryniewiecki took part in the Czech Marusarzówna Memorial in Zakopane in 1958 , where he had to admit defeat only Nikolai Shamov in the ski jumping competition, despite an internationally well-filled starting list . He also took part in the Nordic combined competition, in which he took third place. At the Polish championships in ski jumping, he was seventh this year.

His international breakthrough finally came in the winter of 1958/59. At the prestigious Beskydy Cup in January 1959, he narrowly missed the podium in fourth place. At the inauguration competition of the new Aschbergschanze in Klingenthal , he finished fifth behind great ski jumpers like Helmut Recknagel , Werner Lesser and Harry Glaß . Two weeks later he won his only Polish championship title when he left Jan Furman and Władysław Tajner behind with jumps on 81.5 and 79.5 meters from Wielka Krokiew . He was able to confirm his good form by winning the Czech Marusarzówna Memorial Competition . In March Hryniewiecki took part in the ski flying competition on the Kulm . At the end of the five round competition, he reached fifth place and was also able to jump his best distance of 116.0 meters. In the following weeks Hryniewiecki took part in other international competitions in Germany and was able to draw attention to himself again and again with results among the top five. In Oberwiesenthal, for example, he took third place behind Recknagel and Glaß.

Originally Hryniewiecki was one of the favorites for the Four Hills Tournament 1959/60 , but he was not allowed to participate due to a boycott of the Four Hills Tournament by the Polish Association for political reasons. Only a few days later he demonstrated his international class in Oberwiesenthal, where he jumped at 82.5 meters and won the competition in the "Kupus" ski jumping series. He also dueled Recknagel in other competitions and was already considered a favorite for the Olympics by the press . In this form he could not be defeated at the first station of the Beskydy Tour in 1960 in Wisła . Although he managed the furthest jump in Szczyrk , he was only fourteenth due to a fall and only finished second in the overall standings behind Władysław Tajner.

Two days before leaving for the 1960 Winter Olympics , Hryniewiecki fell badly in the last pre-Olympic training from the Malinka in Wisła. He had ignored the warnings of his trainer, lost control during the flight and hit his head on the ground. He broke several cervical vertebrae , squeezed his chest and damaged his spinal cord severely, leaving him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

After his fall, he met the nurse Wanda Góralska during a rehabilitation stay, whom he later married. The marriage broke up after just five years. As a result, Hryniewiecki struggled with psychological problems and fell victim to alcoholism . He died on November 17, 1981 at the age of 43.

Others

The Olympic champion Helmut Recknagel gave Hryniewiecki his gold medal and claimed that he would have won the Olympic competition without his tragic fall.

The normal hill of the Salmopol ski jumping facility , which was in operation between 1980 and 2000, was named after Hryniewiecki.

successes

Victories in A-class jumping

No.	competition	date	place
1.	Czech Marusarzówna Memorial	March 15, 1959	Zakopane
2.	Cupus	January 10, 1960	Oberwiesenthal
3.	Beskydy tour	January 15, 1960	Wisła

Web links

• Portrait of Zdzisław Hryniewiecki on Skijumping.pl (Polish).
• Portrait of Zdzisław Hryniewiecki on skokinarciarskie.pl (Polish).
• Results Zdzisław Hryniewiecki on wyniki-skoki.hostingasp.pl by Adam Kwieciński (Polish).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The history of the 'Große Aschberg-Schanze' (1959-1989). In: klingenthal.de. Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
2. ^ Recknagel before Glaß and Hryniewiecki. In: nd-archiv.de ( Neues Deutschland ). March 21, 1959. Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Jens Jahn, Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Sports. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004. ISBN 3-89784-099-5 , p. 213
4. ↑ This time Hryniewiecki stood 82.5 m and won. In: nd-archiv.de ( Neues Deutschland ). January 11, 1960. Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Bartosz Leja: Historia tragiczna polskiej nadziei olimpijskiej - wspomnienie Zdzisława Hryniewieckiego. In: skokipolska.pl. Retrieved March 11, 2019 (Polish). 
6. ^ Hryniewiecki out of action , in: Berliner Zeitung of February 1, 1960, Volume 1, Issue 27, Page 3.