Tomasz Pochwała (born 7 May 1983) is a Polish ski jumper and Nordic combined competitor. He finished 6th in the team large hill and 40th in the individual normal hill events at the

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in Salt Lake City. At the 2003 Ski Jumping World Championships in Val di Fiemme, Pochwała finished 39th in the individual normal hill event. He finished 31st in the individual event of the 2002 Ski Flying World Championships in Harrachov. Pochwała's best individual World Cup result was 15th in a large hill event in Zakopane in 2002. His only ski jumping victory also occurred in Poland in 2004 though it was an FIS Cup event on the individual large hill. Pochwała had an accident in Planica in

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, when he lost control in the air and crashed heavily onto the slope. In 2008 Pochwała changed his discipline from ski jumping to Nordic combined and currently competes in the

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. In the 2009–10 season he achieved several points, something which had never been achieved by any Polish Nordic combined skier for 18 years. He is the cousin of slalom canoeist Marcin Pochwała.

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* Polish male ski jumpers Olympic ski jumpers of Poland Ski jumpers at the 2002 Winter Olympics Polish male Nordic combined skiers Sportspeople from Zakopane 1983 births Living people Universiade medalists in nordic combined Universiade silver medalists for Poland Competitors at the 2011 Winter Universiade 21st-century Polish men {{Poland-skijumping-bio-stub