Zdzisław Wrona

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)
To person
Date of birth	January 12, 1962
nation	Poland
discipline	Street
End of career	1992
Most important successes
	Polish champion road race
	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

Around Berlin

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

St van Brabant

Web links

Commons : Zdzisław Wrona - collection of images, videos and audio files

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
SURNAME	Wrona, Zdzisław
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 12, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pustków Wilczkowski

[gaz-1] Wojciech Koerber: Zdzisław Wrona - Na rowerze był kaskaderem, skoczył nawet przed Ludwiga (zdjęcia). In: gazetawroclawska.pl. December 31, 2012, accessed April 18, 2019 (Polish).

[2] German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 33/1988 . Berlin 1988, p. 8 .