Museum honours Poland's first winter Olympic champion

Fifty years ago, Wojciech Fortuna made an amazing ski jump to win an Olympic gold for Poland at the Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan.

An event at Warsaw's Museum of Sport and Tourism to mark 50 years since Wojciech Fortuna (pictured) won Poland's first Winter Olympic gold medal at the 1972 Sapporo Games.

Photo: PAP/Piotr Nowak

It was Poland's first, and for decades only, gold medal in Winter Olympics history.

Wojciech Fortuna (wearing bib No. 29), carried by Switzerland's second-placed Walter Steiner (left) and East Germany's third-placed Rainer Schmidt (not seen in the picture) after winning Poland's first Winter Olympic gold medal in ski jumping at the 1972 Sapporo Games. Photo: PAP/Archiwum/CAF

To mark the anniversary, Warsaw's Museum of Sport has organized a special event for the former athlete.

Radio Poland's Elżbieta Krajewska has this report.

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