Wojciech Fortuna (born 6 August 1952) is a Polish former

ski jumper Ski jumping is a winter sport in which competitors aim to achieve the farthest jump after sliding down on their skis from a specially designed curved ramp. Along with jump length, competitor's aerial style and other factors also affect the fina ...

who won the Olympic Gold Medal in the Large Hill at the

1972 Winter Olympics The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially the and commonly known as Sapporo 1972 ( ja, 札幌1972), was a winter multi-sport event held from February 3 to 13, 1972, in Sapporo, Japan. It was the first Winter Olympic Games to take place outside Europe ...

Sapporo ( ain, サッ・ポロ・ペッ, Satporopet, lit=Dry, Great River) is a city in Japan. It is the largest city north of Tokyo and the largest city on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. It ranks as the fifth most populous city ...

. In the Normal Hill he finished 6th. The Gold Medal was Poland's first - and the only gold until Vancouver 2010 - in the Winter Olympics history. Four time participant of the

Four Hills Tournament The Four Hills Tournament (german: link=no, Vierschanzentournee) or the German-Austrian Ski Jumping Week (german: link=no, Deutsch-Österreichische Skisprung-Woche) is a ski jumping event composed of four World Cup events and has taken place in ...

, with his best ranking was during the XXI edition, achieving 18th place.http://www.skokinarciarskie.pl/index.php?a=cykle&b=sezon&cykl=tcs&sezon=1972/1973 He competed from 1969 to 1979.

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* 1952 births Living people Polish male ski jumpers Olympic ski jumpers of Poland Ski jumpers at the 1972 Winter Olympics Ski jumpers at the 1976 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Poland Sportspeople from Zakopane Olympic medalists in ski jumping Recipients of the Gold Cross of Merit (Poland) Knights of the Order of Polonia Restituta Medalists at the 1972 Winter Olympics {{Poland-skijumping-bio-stub