Mirosław Graf

Mirosław Graf (born 5 June 1959) is a Polish former ski jumper, inventor of V-style.[1][2]

Mirosław Graf
Country Poland
Born (1959-06-05) 5 June 1959

Career

He began his career in 1969 in Szklarska Poręba,[3] from 1974 he performed in Karpacz and latterly in Zakopane from 1980-82.

In 1969 he suffered an injury fracturing his ribs and suffering ankle sprain. After this he began to use his skis in a V shape. [2][3] His coaches tried to help him unlearn this style, recommending he ski with his feet inward and placed special "jaws" on his ski binding.[2] However, Graf found that he performed longer distances and safer jumps with his V style but the judges only awarded him 15-16 points.[3] The V style was also used by the Swede Jan Boklöv in the late 1980s. In a competition in Karpacz, Graf performed the longest jump but took only 4th place. He set hill records in Miłków, Kottmar, Lubawka and Szklarska Poręba.[3] In 1980 he took part in the World Cup in Zakopane where he landed a jump of 108 metres.[2] He ended his career in 1982, when he graduated from the Wrocław University of Physical Education. In 1989, the last time he jumped in Szklarska Poręba he won the competition setting a new hill record. After his retirement he worked as a physical education teacher and coach. He is a member of the nordic combined commission in the Polish Ski Federation.[4] For nine years he managed a ski jumping club, the UKS GRAF-ski.[3] In November 2014 he was elected mayor of Szklarska Poręba.[5][6]

gollark: See, this is much nicer.
gollark: ```rustpub struct List<T> { head: Link<T>,}type Link<T> = Option<Box<Node<T>>>;struct Node<T> { elem: T, next: Link<T>,}impl<T> List<T> { pub fn new() -> Self { List { head: None } } pub fn push(&mut self, elem: T) { let new_node = Box::new(Node { elem: elem, next: self.head.take(), }); self.head = Some(new_node); } pub fn pop(&mut self) -> Option<T> { self.head.take().map(|node| { self.head = node.next; node.elem }) }}impl<T> Drop for List<T> { fn drop(&mut self) { let mut cur_link = self.head.take(); while let Some(mut boxed_node) = cur_link { cur_link = boxed_node.next.take(); } }}```
gollark: ... or at all?
gollark: You don't have a thing to efficiently deallocate the list.
gollark: Collections which work on a big chunk of memory or something *do* kind of have to use unsafe, linked lists or (some?) trees mostly don't.

References
  1. Johnson, Wayne (2007). White Heat: The Extreme Skiing Life.
  2. "Ewolucja stylów w skokach narciarskich – cz.3". skijumping.pl. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
  3. "Mirosław Graf – polski prekursor stylu". skijumping.pl. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
  4. "Komisja skoków i kombinacji norweskiej". PZN.pl. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
  5. "Wybory samorządowe 2014. Miasto Szklarska Poręba". Państwowa Komisja Wyborcza. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
  6. Chmielewski, Michał (16 December 2014). "Nowy burmistrz Szklarskiej Poręby: Puchar Świata nie jest pewny". skipol.pl. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
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