Wojciech Fortuna
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Wojciech Fortuna | |||||||||||||||
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Born | Zakopane, Poland | 6 August 1952||||||||||||||
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||
Ski club | Wisła-Gwardia Zakopane | ||||||||||||||
Personal best | 132.0 m (Planica, 1972) | ||||||||||||||
World Cup career | |||||||||||||||
Seasons | 1962–1975 | ||||||||||||||
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Updated on 31 January 2020. |
Wojciech Fortuna (born 6 August 1952) is a Polish former ski jumper who won the Olympic gold medal in the Large Hill at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo. In the Normal Hill he finished 6th. The Gold Medal was Poland's first – and the only gold until Vancouver 2010 – in the Winter Olympics history. Four time participant of the Four Hills Tournament, with his best ranking was during the XXI edition, achieving 18th place.[1]
He competed from 1969 to 1979.
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- Polish male ski jumpers
- Olympic ski jumpers for Poland
- Ski jumpers at the 1972 Winter Olympics
- Ski jumpers at the 1976 Winter Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Poland
- Skiers from Zakopane
- Olympic medalists in ski jumping
- Recipients of the Gold Cross of Merit (Poland)
- Knights of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Medalists at the 1972 Winter Olympics
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