Wojciech Fortuna
Appearance
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Born | ![]() | 6 August 1952||||||||||||||
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||
Ski club | Wisła-Gwardia Zakopane | ||||||||||||||
Personal best | 132.0 m (Planica, 1972) | ||||||||||||||
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Seasons | 1962–1975 | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Updated on 17 February 2014. |
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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. 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.
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- 1952 births
- Living people
- Polish ski jumpers
- Male ski jumpers
- Olympic ski jumpers of Poland
- Ski jumpers at the 1972 Winter Olympics
- Ski jumpers at the 1976 Winter Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Poland
- Sportspeople from Zakopane
- Olympic medalists in ski jumping
- Recipients of the Gold Cross of Merit (Poland)
- Knights of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Polish Olympic medalist stubs
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- Medalists at the 1972 Winter Olympics