Teresa Weyna
| Teresa Weyna | |
|---|---|
| Personal information | |
| Full name | Teresa Urszula Weyna |
| Alternative names | Teresa Weyna-Urban |
| Country represented | Poland |
| Born |
30 May 1950 Toruń, Poland |
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) |
| Former partner | Piotr Bojańczyk |
| Former coach | Anna Bursche-Lindner Jan Bojańczyk |
| Former skating club | Marymont Warszawa Ogniwo Warszawa Warszawianka Pomorzanin Toruń |
| Former training locations |
Warsaw Toruń |
| Retired | 1976 |
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 Championships, and the 1976 Winter Olympics.
Weyna was born 30 May 1950 in Toruń, one of five daughters of Urszula Jadwiga Falkowska and Alfred Kazimierz Weyna. Her sisters were also figure skaters and her mother officiated at domestic skating events.
Known as Weyna-Urban while married to her ex-husband, she gave birth to twin daughters, Katarzyna and Karolina, in 1979 and a son, Bartosz, in 1980.
Weyna teamed up with Piotr Bojańczyk 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 Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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 Innsbruck, Austria at the 1976 Winter Olympics. They retired from competition after the 1976 World Championships.
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