Zdzisław Wrona
International Peace Tour 1987: Zdzisław Wrona (r.) Third at the award ceremony for the 2nd stage from Berlin to Magdeburg ; Winner Uwe Raab (center), second Jamolidin Abduschaparow (left) | |
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Date of birth | January 12, 1962 |
nation | Poland |
discipline | Street |
End of career | 1992 |
Most important successes | |
Polish champion road race |
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Last updated: June 18, 2020 |
Zdzisław Wrona (born January 12, 1962 in Pustków Wilczkowski , Lower Silesian Voivodeship , Poland ) is a former Polish cyclist.
Athletic career
Zdzisław Wrona grew up on a farm in the village of Pustków Wilczkowski near Breslau ; he had six siblings. One of his brothers, Marek , later also became a successful cyclist (1989 winner of the Tour of Poland ), two other brothers decided to play football . In 1976 Zdzisław Wrona became a member of BKS Sobótka and began regular training in Sobótka, twelve kilometers away, while continuing to work on his parents' farm. "The training started with the drive there," he later recalled. He later moved to the Moto Jelcz Olawa club .
In the late 1970s, Wrona won the youth Spartakiad and became Polish mountain champion. In 1986 and 1987 he started in the International Peace Tour, in 1986 he won the seventh stage from Gorzów to Szczecin , beating the German Olaf Ludwig . In the same year he was third in the Tour du Loir-et-Cher . In 1988 he took part in the road race of the Olympic Games in Seoul and finished 17th. In 1992 he was second in Paris – Troyes . At the local Szlakiem Grodów Piastowskich cycle race , he is the record holder with three victories, together with Marek Rutkiewicz ( as of 2018 ).
After finishing his cycling career, Zdzisław Wrona opened a bicycle shop with a workshop in Jelcz-Laskowice ( as of 2015 ).
successes
- 1985
- 1986
- a stage of the peace journey
- two stages tour of Poland
- 1987
- two stages tour of Cuba
- four stages tour of Lower Saxony
- 1988
Web links
- Zdzisław Wrona in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Zdzisław Wrona in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Zdzisław Wrona in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Wojciech Koerber: Zdzisław Wrona - Na rowerze był kaskaderem, skoczył nawet przed Ludwiga (zdjęcia). In: gazetawroclawska.pl. December 31, 2012, accessed April 18, 2019 (Polish).
- ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 33/1988 . Berlin 1988, p. 8 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wrona, Zdzisław |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1962 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Pustków Wilczkowski |