Piotr Fijas (born 27 July 1958) is a Polish former

ski jumper Ski jumping is a winter sport in which competitors aim to achieve the farthest jump after sliding down on their skis from a specially designed curved ramp. Along with jump length, competitor's aerial style and other factors also affect the fin ...

Career

Fijas won a bronze medal at the 1979 FIS Ski Flying World Championships in

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, Yugoslavia (now Slovenia). He finished seventh on the individual normal hill at the

1984 Winter Olympics The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games (Serbo-Croatian language, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene language, Slovene: ; Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, Serbian Cyrillic: ; ) and commonly known as Sarajevo '84 (Serbian Cy ...

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, and scored three individual

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wins between 1980 and 1986, all in individual large hill competitions.

The last and all-time world record in parallel style

On 14 March 1987, he set the last parallel style ski jumping world record at on Velikanka bratov Gorišek in

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. It was held for seven years and only after that period world record was officially discussed and recognized at FIS Autumn meeting '94 (as decided at FIS Congress in

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), when ridiculous rule established by

founder

Torbjørn Yggeseth Torbjørn Yggeseth (18 June 1934 – 10 January 2010) was a Norwegian ski jumper who was active in the 1960s. He competed for Heggedal Idretsslag. Yggeseth won the ski jumping competition at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1963, the same year h ...

, was lifted.

World Cup

Standings

Wins

Ski jumping world record

The last and all-time parallel style ski jumping world record in history.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fijas, Piotr 1958 births Living people Olympic ski jumpers for Poland Polish male ski jumpers Ski jumpers at the 1980 Winter Olympics Ski jumpers at the 1984 Winter Olympics Ski jumpers at the 1988 Winter Olympics Skiers from Bielsko-Biała 20th-century Polish sportsmen