Michał Winiarski

Personal information

Full name

Michał Jerzy Winiarski

Nickname

Winiar

Nationality

Polish

Born

September 28, 1983 (age 33)
Bydgoszcz, Poland

Height

2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)

Weight

82 kg (181 lb)

Spike

355 cm (140 in)

Block

332 cm (131 in)

Volleyball information

Position

Outside hitter

Current club

PGE Skra Bełchatów

Number

2 (national team), 13 (club)

Career

Years	Teams
1999–2002 2002–2005 2005–2006 2006–2009 2009–2013 2013–2014 2014–2017	Chemik Bydgoszcz SMS PZPS Spała BOT Skra Bełchatów Itas Diatec Trentino PGE Skra Bełchatów Fakel Novy Urengoy PGE Skra Bełchatów

National team

2004–2014

Poland (240)

Honours

Representing Poland
Men's volleyball
World Championship
	2014 Poland
	2006 Japan
World Cup
	2011 Japan
World League
	2012 Sofia

Last updated: 14 April 2017

Michał Winiarski (born 28 September 1983) is a Polish volleyball player, a member of Poland men's national volleyball team from 2004-2014 and Polish club PGE Skra Bełchatów, a participant of the Olympic Games (Beijing 2008, London 2012), 2014 World Champion, a gold medalist of the 2012 World League, silver medalist of the 2006 World Championship and 2011 World Cup, three-time Polish Champion (2006, 2010, 2011) and 2008 Italian Champion.

Michał Winiarski was born in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He graduated from the School of Sports Championship in Spała. He studied at the Management and Administration College in Opole. On May 13, 2006 he married Dagmara (née Stęplewska). On November 28, 2006 (after a match of the World Championship with Russia) their son Oliwier was born. On March 13, 2014 his wife gave birth to their second son, named Antoni.

His first professional club was Chemik Bydgoszcz. With the team , Winiarski was twice a bronze medalist in the Polish Championship (2003/2004, 2004/2005). He spent one season 2005/2006 as a player of BOT Skra Bełchatów and won the Polish Championship and Polish Cup with this team. In 2006-2009, he played for the Italian team Itas Diatec Trentino. With this team, he won the 2008-09 Indesit Champions League and was also awarded Best Blocker for his play. He has gold (2008) and silver (2009) medals from the Italian Championship. In 2009 he returned to the Polish team PGE Skra Bełchatów. They won the Polish Championship twice times in 2009/2010, 2010/2011 and a silver medal in 2011/2012. He has a silver medal from the Club World Championships in 2010. He won, with ,Bełchatów, the Polish Cup twice, in 2011 and 2012. In 2010, PGE Skra Bełchatów, with Winiarski, won the bronze medal in the CEV Champions League. They improved on this result in 2012, when they won the silver medal in the CEV Champions League after the match against Zenit Kazan at the Final Four in Łódź, Poland. The match ended controversially, because the judge didn't see the error of a Russian player and allowed the match to finish, despite the fact that the audience and the players saw the error on screen. Michał Winiarski won the award for Best Receiver in the CEV Champions League 2011/2012. He played for Skra Bełchatów in Poland until May 2013, when he announced that he had signed a 2-year contract with a Russian Superleague club, Fakel Novy Urengoy, but he only spent one season in Russia. On June 16, 2014, it was officially announced that Winiarski was returning to Bełchatów and had signed a two-year contract with PGE Skra Bełchatów. On October 8, 2014 his team won ENEA Polish SuperCup 2014. On February 7, 2016 he played with PGE Skra and won the 2016 Polish Cup after beating ZAKSA in the final. In April 2016 he was a member of the same team which won a bronze medal in the 2015–16 PlusLiga championship.

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