Grzegorz Wagner (born 13 December 1965) is a former Polish

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player and coach. He was part of the Polish national team in 1985–2002, Polish Champion (1989).

Personal life

His parents are

Danuta Kordaczuk Danuta Kordaczuk-Wagner (born 2 September 1939 – 10 April 1988) was a Polish volleyball player and head coach, a member of Poland women's national volleyball team in 1956–1970, a bronze medalist of the Olympic Games Tokyo 1964, a bronze meda ...

and

Hubert Wagner Hubert Aleksander Wagner (also known as Hubert Jerzy Wagner) (born 4 March 1941 – 13 March 2002) was a Polish volleyball player and coach. He was a member of the Poland national team from 1963 to 1971, a participant in the Olympic Games Mex ...

. His mother was a

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(setter), bronze medalist of Olympics 1964, medalist of

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and European Championship. His father

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was also a

(also setter), bronze medalist of the European Championship 1967, as head coach led the Polish men's national volleyball team to titles of World Champions 1974 and Olympic Champions 1976. He is married to Agata (née Marszałek), a former

. He has two sons - Iwo (born 1991) and Jakub (born 1993) and daughter Sara (born 2003). Both of his sons are

Career as coach

He debuted as head coach of

Jadar Radom Jadar Radom was a Polish volleyball club, from Radom, which existed between 2003 and 2011. From 2006 to 2010 they played in the highest level of Polish Volleyball League. The club was founded to fill the void after the city's traditional club C ...

in 2005. His team was promoted to the top of Polish volleyball league -

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. In 2006 he joined to

BBTS Bielsko-Biała BBTS Bielsko-Biała SA is a professional men's volleyball club based in Bielsko-Biała in southern Poland, founded in 1999. They compete in the Polish PlusLiga. Honours * Polish Cup The Polish Cup in football ( pl, Puchar Polski w piłce no� ...

, club from the I league. In season 2009/2010 he was a head coach of

AZS Częstochowa KS AZS Częstochowa SSA was a Polish professional men's volleyball club based in Częstochowa, founded in 1945 as a university team (AZS). The club competed in the Polish PlusLiga from to 1979 to 2017. Six–time Polish Champion, two–time Pol ...

and his team took 5th place in

. In 2010/2011 he was a head coach of women's club BKS Aluprof Bielsko-Biała.''Wagner trenerem mistrzyń Polski''
– przegladsportowy.pl – 01-06-2010

References

External links

Coach/Player profile
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