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Adam Małysz

Adam Małysz
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Małysz in Oslo, 2006
Country  Poland
Full name Adam Henryk Małysz
Born (1977-12-03) 3 December 1977 (age 39)
Wisła, Poland
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Personal best 230.5 m (756 ft)
Vikersund, 13 Feb 2011
World Cup career
Seasons 19952011
Individual wins 39
Indiv. podiums 92
Team podiums 4
Overall titles 4 (2001, 2002, 2003, 2007)
Four Hills titles 1 (2001)
Nordic titles 3 (2001, 2003, 2007)
Updated on 30 Mar 2015.
Adam Małysz
Dakar Rally career
Debut season 2012
Championships Dakar Rally
Best finish 13 in 2014
Last updated on: 21 January 2014.

Adam Henryk Małysz ([ˈadam ˈmawɨʂ]; born 3 December 1977) is a Polish former ski jumper and current rally driver. He is one of the most successful athletes in the history of ski jumping, with his many accomplishments including 4 World Cup titles (a record shared with Matti Nykänen and Sara Takanashi), 4 individual Winter Olympic medals, 4 individual World Championship gold medals (an all-time record), 39 individual World Cup competition victories, a total of 96 World Cup podiums (individual and team), and being the only ski jumper to have won 3 consecutive World Cup titles. He is also a winner of the Four Hills Tournament, and the only three-time winner of the Nordic Tournament.

After concluding his 16-year ski jumping career in 2011, Małysz competed in the Dakar Rally in 2012, 2013 and 2014 finishing 37th, 15th and 13th respectively.

Małysz began his senior level ski jumping career on 4 January 1995, finishing seventeenth at the third event of the Four Hills Tournament in Innsbruck. In his first two World Cup seasons he was moderately successful, winning in Oslo on 17 March 1996; in Sapporo on 18 January 1997; and in Hakuba on 26 January. His breakthrough season came in 2000–01, when he won the Four Hills Tournament and ended Martin Schmitt's long run of success dating back to 1998–99. Małysz went on to dominate the season by reeling off five consecutive individual victories in Innsbruck, Bischofshofen, both ski flying competitions in Harrachov, and Park City. Further success came at the 2001 World Championships, in which he won a gold medal on the individual normal hill and silver on the individual large hill. He finished the season by a landslide points margin with three more consecutive wins in Falun, Trondheim and Oslo to claim his first Nordic Tournament title.


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