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 The 1956 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VII Olympic Winter Games ( it, VII Giochi Olimpici invernali) and commonly known as Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 ( lld, Anpezo 1956 or ), was a multi-sport event held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, from ...

Cortina d'Ampezzo Cortina d'Ampezzo (; lld, Anpezo, ; historical de-AT, Hayden) is a town and ''comune'' in the heart of the southern (Dolomitic) Alps in the Province of Belluno, in the Veneto region of Northern Italy. Situated on the Boite river, in an alp ...

. He was the first Polish athlete to win a Winter Olympics medal in any

Nordic skiing Nordic skiing encompasses the various types of skiing in which the toe of the ski boot is fixed to the Ski binding, binding in a manner that allows the heel to rise off the ski, unlike alpine skiing, where the boot is attached to the ski from toe ...

discipline (

cross-country skiing Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreation ...

, ski jumping, and Nordic combined). He was born in Zakopane.

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* * 1931 births 2014 deaths Polish male Nordic combined skiers Nordic combined skiers at the 1956 Winter Olympics Olympic Nordic combined skiers of Poland Olympic bronze medalists for Poland Sportspeople from Zakopane Olympic medalists in Nordic combined Medalists at the 1956 Winter Olympics 20th-century Polish people {{Poland-skijumping-bio-stub