Marian Wiktor Woyna-Orlewicz (5 October 1913 – 13 January 2011) was a Polish

cross-country skier 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 ...

who competed in the

1936 Winter Olympics The 1936 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IV Olympic Winter Games (german: IV. Olympische Winterspiele) and commonly known as Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 ( bar, Garmasch-Partakurch 1936), were a winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 16 ...

. He was born in Wadowice and died in Zakopane. In 1936 he was a member of the Polish cross-country relay team which finished seventh in the 4x10 km relay event. In the 18 km competition at the same Olympiad he finished 32nd. Before his death, he was the oldest living Polish Olympic competitor.

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1913 births 2011 deaths Polish male cross-country skiers Polish male Nordic combined skiers Olympic cross-country skiers for Poland Olympic Nordic combined skiers for Poland Cross-country skiers at the 1936 Winter Olympics Nordic combined skiers at the 1936 Winter Olympics People from Wadowice Skiers from Lesser Poland Voivodeship Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta 20th-century Polish sportsmen {{Poland-skijumping-bio-stub