Franciszek Gąsienica Groń
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1956 Cortina | Individual |
Franciszek Gąsienica Groń (30 September 1931 – 31 July 2014) was a Polish Nordic combined athlete who competed in the 1950s. He won a bronze medal in the Nordic combined at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo. He was the first Polish athlete to win a Winter Olympics medal in any Nordic skiing discipline (cross-country skiing, ski jumping, and Nordic combined).[1]
He was born in Zakopane.
References
[edit]- ^ "24tp.pl: Zmarł Franciszek Gąsienica Groń, medalista olimpijski". Tygodnikpodhalanski.pl. Retrieved 2014-07-31.
External links
[edit]- Franciszek Gąsienica Groń at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
- Franciszek Gąsienica Groń at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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Categories:
- 1931 births
- 2014 deaths
- Polish male Nordic combined skiers
- Nordic combined skiers at the 1956 Winter Olympics
- Olympic Nordic combined skiers for Poland
- Olympic bronze medalists for Poland
- Skiers from Zakopane
- Olympic medalists in Nordic combined
- Medalists at the 1956 Winter Olympics
- 20th-century Polish sportsmen
- Polish Olympic medalist stubs
- Polish ski jumping biography stubs