Piotr Bojańczyk
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Piotr Paweł Bojańczyk (born 29 June 1946) is a Polish former ice dancer. Skating with
Teresa Weyna Teresa Urszula Weyna (born 30 May 1950) is a Polish former ice dancer. Skating with Piotr Bojańczyk, she became a nine-time Polish national champion (1968–76) and placed in the top ten at six European Championships, three World Championship ...
, he became a nine-time
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champion (1968–76) and placed in the top ten at six
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, three World Championships, and the
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.


Personal life

Bojańczyk was born 29 June, 1946 in Toruń to Janina (
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Chudzik) and Jan Bojańczyk, a skating coach. He graduated with a
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degree in physics from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and then studied at the Warsaw University of Technology. With his wife Ewa, he has three children — Przemysław, Dominika, and Anna — and moved to Canada in 1989.


Career

Bojańczyk skated with Grażyna Pasternak from 1963 to 1965 before teaming up with
Teresa Weyna Teresa Urszula Weyna (born 30 May 1950) is a Polish former ice dancer. Skating with Piotr Bojańczyk, she became a nine-time Polish national champion (1968–76) and placed in the top ten at six European Championships, three World Championship ...
in autumn 1965. In the 1967–68 season, the duo won the Polish Championships for the first time and were given their ISU Championship debut at the 1968 European Championships. They finished 16th at the event in Västerås, Sweden. In the 1974–75 season, Weyna/Bojańczyk won the bronze medal at the 1974 Prize of Moscow News and achieved their career-best World placement, seventh, at the 1975 World Championships in
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. The following season, Weyna/Bojańczyk won their ninth consecutive national title. Their highest European result, seventh, came at the 1976 European Championships in Geneva, Switzerland. The duo placed ninth in
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, Austria at the
1976 Winter Olympics The 1976 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XII Olympic Winter Games (german: XII. Olympische Winterspiele, french: XIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1976 ( bar, Innschbruck 1976, label=Austro-Bavarian), was a ...
. They retired from competition after the 1976 World Championships. Bojańczyk represented several skating clubs during his competitive career — Pomorzanin Toruń (until 1971), Warszawianka (1972), Ogniwo Warszawa (1973–75), and Marymont Warszawa (1976), coached by Jan Bojańczyk in Toruń and Anna Bursche-Lindner in Warsaw.


Competitive highlights

(with Weyna)


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bojanczyk, Piotr 1946 births Polish male ice dancers Living people Sportspeople from Toruń Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń alumni Figure skaters at the 1976 Winter Olympics Olympic figure skaters for Poland