Wojciech Fortuna

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Olympic medal record
Men's ski jumping
Gold	1972 Sapporo	Large hill

Wojciech Fortuna

Wojciech Fortuna (born 6 August 1952 in Zakopane) is a former Polish ski jumper who won the Olympic Gold Medal in the Large Hill at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo. The Gold Medal was Poland's first - and the only gold until Vancouver 2010 - in the Winter Olympics history.

He competed from 1972 to 1976.

External links

W. Fortuna at the International Ski Federation

Olympic champions in ski jumping individual large hill

1924: Jacob Tullin Thams (NOR)
1928: Alf Andersen (NOR)
1932: Birger Ruud (NOR)
1936: Birger Ruud (NOR)
1948: Petter Hugsted (NOR)
1952: Arnfinn Bergmann (NOR)
1956: Antti Hyvärinen (FIN)
1960: Helmut Recknagel (EUA)
1964: Toralf Engan (NOR)
1968: Vladimir Belussov (URS)
1972: Wojciech Fortuna (POL)
1976: Karl Schnabl (AUT)
1980: Jouko Törmänen (FIN)
1984: Matti Nykänen (FIN)
1988: Matti Nykänen (FIN)
1992: Toni Nieminen (FIN)
1994: Jens Weißflog (GER)
1998: Kazuyoshi Funaki (JPN)
2002: Simon Ammann (SUI)
2006: Thomas Morgenstern (AUT)
2010: Simon Ammann (SUI)

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Persondata
Name	Fortuna, Wojciech
Alternative names
Short description	Polish ski jumper
Date of birth	6 August 1952
Place of birth	Zakopane
Date of death
Place of death

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