Michał Winiarski
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Full name | Michał Jerzy Winiarski | ||||||
Nickname | Winiar | ||||||
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Born | Bydgoszcz, Poland | September 28, 1983||||||
Height | 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) | ||||||
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Position | Outside hitter | ||||||
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Michał Winiarski (born 28 September 1983) is a former Polish volleyball player, a member of Poland men's national volleyball team from 2004 to 2014, a participant of the Olympic Games (Beijing 2008, London 2012), 2014 World Champion, a gold medalist of the 2012 World League, silver medalist of the 2006 World Championship and 2011 World Cup, three–time Polish Champion (2006, 2010, 2011) and one time Italian Champion (2008). A head coach of Polish club Trefl Gdańsk.
Personal life
Michał Winiarski was born in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He graduated from the School of Sports Championship in Spała. He studied at the Management and Administration College in Opole. On May 13, 2006 he married Dagmara (née Stęplewska). On November 28, 2006 (after a match of the World Championship with Russia) their son Oliwier was born. On March 13, 2014 his wife gave birth to their second son, named Antoni.
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Career
Clubs
His first professional club was Chemik Bydgoszcz. With the team AZS Częstochowa, Winiarski was twice a bronze medalist in the Polish Championship (2003/2004, 2004/2005). He spent one season 2005/2006 as a player of BOT Skra Bełchatów and won the Polish Championship and Polish Cup with this team. In 2006-2009, he played for the Italian team Itas Diatec Trentino. With this team, he won the 2008-09 Indesit Champions League and was also awarded Best Blocker for his play. He has gold (2008) and silver (2009) medals from the Italian Championship. In 2009 he returned to the Polish team PGE Skra Bełchatów. They won the Polish Championship twice times in 2009/2010, 2010/2011 and a silver medal in 2011/2012. He has a silver medal from the Club World Championships in 2010. He won, with, Bełchatów, the Polish Cup twice, in 2011 and 2012. In 2010, PGE Skra Bełchatów, with Winiarski, won the bronze medal in the CEV Champions League. They improved on this result in 2012, when they won the silver medal in the CEV Champions League after the match against Zenit Kazan at the Final Four in Łódź, Poland. The match ended controversially, because the judge didn't see the error of a Russian player and allowed the match to finish, despite the fact that the audience and the players saw the error on screen.[1] Michał Winiarski won the award for Best Receiver in the CEV Champions League 2011/2012. He played for Skra Bełchatów in Poland until May 2013, when he announced that he had signed a 2-year contract with a Russian Superleague club,[2] Fakel Novy Urengoy, but he only spent one season in Russia. On June 16, 2014, it was officially announced that Winiarski was returning to Bełchatów and had signed a two-year contract with PGE Skra Bełchatów.[3] On October 8, 2014 his team won ENEA Polish SuperCup 2014.[4] On February 7, 2016 he played with PGE Skra and won the 2016 Polish Cup after beating ZAKSA in the final.[5] In April 2016 he was a member of the same team which won a bronze medal in the 2015–16 PlusLiga championship.[6]
On April 14, 2017 he announced ending up his sports career on April 19, 2017 at Atlas Arena in first match of PGE Skra Bełchatów in 2016–17 PlusLiga finals. His last match was the finale on April 23, 2017. He achieved a silver medal of 2016–17 PlusLiga.
National team
In 2003, he captained the Polish team to the gold medal at the World Junior Championship. He has played for the Poland national men's volleyball team (team A) since 2004. He debuted as a national team player on January 7, 2004 in a match against Russia. In 2006, he took part in the World Championship, where the Polish team finished as runners-up. During the course of the Poland-Brazil match for the gold medal, his first son was born. In 2008, he took part in the Olympic Games in Beijing, where Poland came fifth and he received the award for Best Receiver. In 2011, he and the rest of the national team won the silver medal at the World Cup.[7] On July 8, 2012, the Polish national team (with Winiarski on the team roster) won the gold medal of the World League 2012 in Sofia, Bulgaria.[8][9] So far, he has played 212 matches in the Polish national team (as of September 24, 2013). In May 2014, Winiarski was chosen as the new captain of the national team, replacing the previous holder of the title, Marcin Możdżonek.[10] On September 21, 2014, Poland, with Winiarski as Captain, won the title of World Champion 2014.[11][12][13] On the same day, Winiarski announced his retirement from the Polish national team.[14] On October 27, 2014, Winiarski received a state award granted by the Polish President, Bronisław Komorowski: the Officer's Cross of Polonia Restituta for outstanding sports achievements and the promotion of Poland in the world.[15] In April 2015 he was replaced as captain by Karol Kłos, but Kłos was injured and Michał Kubiak was the replacement captain.
Coaching career
Winiarski has been a coach assistant in his previous club PGE Skra Bełchatów since 2017 while the head coach was Roberto Piazza. In season 2017/18 PGE Skra won Polish SuperCup and another title of Polish Champion.
- 2017/2018
Polish SuperCup, with PGE Skra Bełchatów
- 2017/2018
Polish Championship, with PGE Skra Bełchatów
Sporting achievements
2008/2009 – with Itas Diates Trentino
2009/2010 – with PGE Skra Bełchatów
2011/2012 – with PGE Skra Bełchatów
Qatar 2012 – with PGE Skra Bełchatów
National championship
- 2003/2004
Polish Championship, with AZS Częstochowa
- 2004/2005
Polish Championship, with AZS Częstochowa
- 2005/2006
Polish Cup, with BOT Skra Bełchatów
- 2005/2006
Polish Championship, with BOT Skra Bełchatów
- 2007/2008
Italian Championship, with Itas Diates Trentino
- 2008/2009
Italian Championship, with Itas Diates Trentino
- 2009/2010
Polish Championship, with PGE Skra Bełchatów
- 2010/2011
Polish Cup, with PGE Skra Bełchatów
- 2010/2011
Polish Championship, with PGE Skra Bełchatów
- 2011/2012
Polish Cup, with PGE Skra Bełchatów
- 2011/2012
Polish Championship, with PGE Skra Bełchatów
- 2014/2015
Polish SuperCup, with PGE Skra Bełchatów
- 2014/2015
Polish Championship, with PGE Skra Bełchatów
- 2015/2016
Polish Cup, with PGE Skra Bełchatów
- 2015/2016
Polish Championship, with PGE Skra Bełchatów
- 2016/2017
Polish Championship, with PGE Skra Bełchatów
National team
- 2003
FIVB U21 World Championship
- 2006
FIVB World Championship
- 2011
FIVB World Cup
- 2012
FIVB World League
- 2014
FIVB World Championship
Individually
- 2005: PlusLiga – Best Receiver
- 2006: Polish Cup – Best Server
- 2007: Memorial of Hubert Jerzy Wagner – Best Receiver
- 2008: Olympic Games Beijing – Best Receiver
- 2009: CEV Champions League – Best Blocker
- 2011: Polish Cup – Best Receiver
- 2012: CEV Champions League – Best Receiver
- 2012: Polish Cup – Best Receiver
- 2012: Memorial of Hubert Jerzy Wagner – Best Receiver
State awards
- 2006
Gold Cross of Merit
- 2014
Officer's Cross of Polonia Restituta[16]
- 2014 Honorary citizenship of Bełchatów
References
- ^ Zenit KAZAN shatters PGE Skra dreams of home glory – cev.eu – 18-03-2012
- ^ Michał Winiarski odchodzi z PGE Skry – skra.pl – 03-05-2013
- ^ Michał Winiarski wraca do PGE Skry! – skra.pl – 16-06-2014
- ^ ENEA Super Puchar w piłce siatkowej 2014 dla PGE Skry Bełchatów – plusliga.pl – 08-10-2014
- ^ POLISH CUP M: Venture of all time - Skra win trophy after annulling 3-8 in tie-break! – worldofvolley.com – 07-02-2016
- ^ Brązowa PGE Skra! – skra.pl – 26-04-2016
- ^ Poland shoot up World Rankings on back of World Cup silver – fivb.org – 06-12-2011
- ^ Poland beat USA to claim first World League title – fivb.org – 08-07-2012
- ^ Poland wins historical gold at the 2012 World League – fivb.org – 08-07-2012
- ^ Reprezentacja Polski po spotkaniu z działaczami PZPS i wyborze nowego kapitana – sportowefakty.pl – 10-07-2014
- ^ Poland win second World Championship title at home – fivb.org – 21-09-2014
- ^ Poland put an end to the reign of Brazil – fivb.org – 21-09-2014
- ^ FIVB MŚ Polska 2014: Polska ze złotym medalem – plusliga.pl – 21-09-2014
- ^ Michał Winiarski: zwycięstwo dedykuję żonie i dzieciom – europsport.onet.pl – 22-09-2014
- ^ "Dziękuję za chwile wzruszenia i dumy" Archived 2014-10-27 at the Wayback Machine – prezydent.pl – 27-10-2014
- ^ Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 23 października 2014 r. o nadaniu orderów i odznaczeń – isap.sejm.gov.pl – 23-10-2014
External links
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See also
- 1983 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Bydgoszcz
- Polish men's volleyball players
- Olympic volleyball players of Poland
- Volleyball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Volleyball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Polish Champions of men's volleyball
- Italian Champions of men's volleyball
- AZS Częstochowa players
- Skra Bełchatów players
- Recipients of the Gold Cross of Merit (Poland)
- Officers of the Order of Polonia Restituta