Michał Winiarski

Michał Winiarski (born 28 September 1983) is a former Polish volleyball player, a member of Poland men's national volleyball team from 2004 to 2014, 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 one time Italian Champion (2008). A head coach of Polish club Trefl Gdańsk.

Michał Winiarski
Personal information
Full nameMichał Jerzy Winiarski
NicknameWiniar
Nationality Polish
Born (1983-09-28) September 28, 1983
Bydgoszcz, Poland
Height2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)
Coaching information
Current team Trefl Gdańsk
Previous teams coached
YearsTeams
2017–2019
2019–		 PGE Skra Bełchatów (AC)
Trefl Gdańsk
Volleyball information
PositionOutside hitter
Career
YearsTeams
2002–2005
2005–2006
2006–2009
2009–2013
2013–2014
2014–2017		 AZS Częstochowa
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
FIVB World Championship
2014 Poland
2006 Japan
FIVB World Cup
2011 Japan
FIVB World League
2012 Sofia

Personal life

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.

Winiarski as the Itas Diatec Trentino player in 2009.
During a match of the PGE Skra Bełchatów against LOTOS Trefl Gdańsk.
During the match at Spodek, Katowice (World League 2012) with Łukasz Żygadło.
After the winning match at Spodek in Katowice (World League 2012). In the foreground from left: Zbigniew Bartman, Bartosz Kurek, Winiarski and Krzysztof Ignaczak.
During the match of PlusLiga with Asseco Resovia Rzeszów on November 30, 2014 at Atlas Arena.

Career

Clubs

His first professional club was Chemik Bydgoszcz. With the team AZS Częstochowa, 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.[1] 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,[2] 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.[3] On October 8, 2014 his team won ENEA Polish SuperCup 2014.[4] On February 7, 2016 he played with PGE Skra and won the 2016 Polish Cup after beating ZAKSA in the final.[5] In April 2016 he was a member of the same team which won a bronze medal in the 2015–16 PlusLiga championship.[6]

On April 14, 2017 he announced ending up his sports career on April 19, 2017 at Atlas Arena in first match of PGE Skra Bełchatów in 2016–17 PlusLiga finals. His last match was the finale on April 23, 2017. He achieved a silver medal of 2016–17 PlusLiga.

National team

In 2003, he captained the Polish team to the gold medal at the World Junior Championship. He has played for the Poland national men's volleyball team (team A) since 2004. He debuted as a national team player on January 7, 2004 in a match against Russia. In 2006, he took part in the World Championship, where the Polish team finished as runners-up. During the course of the Poland-Brazil match for the gold medal, his first son was born. In 2008, he took part in the Olympic Games in Beijing, where Poland came fifth and he received the award for Best Receiver. In 2011, he and the rest of the national team won the silver medal at the World Cup.[7] On July 8, 2012, the Polish national team (with Winiarski on the team roster) won the gold medal of the World League 2012 in Sofia, Bulgaria.[8][9] So far, he has played 212 matches in the Polish national team (as of September 24, 2013). In May 2014, Winiarski was chosen as the new captain of the national team, replacing the previous holder of the title, Marcin Możdżonek.[10] On September 21, 2014, Poland, with Winiarski as Captain, won the title of World Champion 2014.[11][12][13] On the same day, Winiarski announced his retirement from the Polish national team.[14] On October 27, 2014, Winiarski received a state award granted by the Polish President, Bronisław Komorowski: the Officer's Cross of Polonia Restituta for outstanding sports achievements and the promotion of Poland in the world.[15] In April 2015 he was replaced as captain by Karol Kłos, but Kłos was injured and Michał Kubiak was the replacement captain.

Coaching career

Winiarski has been a coach assistant in his previous club PGE Skra Bełchatów since 2017 while the head coach was Roberto Piazza. In season 2017/18 PGE Skra won Polish SuperCup and another title of Polish Champion.

  • 2017/2018 Polish SuperCup, with PGE Skra Bełchatów
  • 2017/2018 Polish Championship, with PGE Skra Bełchatów

Sporting achievements

CEV Champions League

FIVB Club World Championship

National championship

National team

Individually
  • 2005: PlusLiga – Best Receiver
  • 2006: Polish Cup – Best Server
  • 2007: Memorial of Hubert Jerzy Wagner – Best Receiver
  • 2008: Olympic Games Beijing – Best Receiver
  • 2009: CEV Champions League – Best Blocker
  • 2011: Polish Cup – Best Receiver
  • 2012: CEV Champions League – Best Receiver
  • 2012: Polish Cup – Best Receiver
  • 2012: Memorial of Hubert Jerzy Wagner – Best Receiver

State awards

References
  1. Zenit KAZAN shatters PGE Skra dreams of home glory – cev.eu – 18-03-2012
  2. Michał Winiarski odchodzi z PGE Skry – skra.pl – 03-05-2013
  3. Michał Winiarski wraca do PGE Skry! – skra.pl – 16-06-2014
  4. ENEA Super Puchar w piłce siatkowej 2014 dla PGE Skry Bełchatów – plusliga.pl – 08-10-2014
  5. POLISH CUP M: Venture of all time - Skra win trophy after annulling 3-8 in tie-break! – worldofvolley.com – 07-02-2016
  6. Brązowa PGE Skra! – skra.pl – 26-04-2016
  7. Poland shoot up World Rankings on back of World Cup silver – fivb.org – 06-12-2011
  8. Poland beat USA to claim first World League title – fivb.org – 08-07-2012
  9. Poland wins historical gold at the 2012 World League – fivb.org – 08-07-2012
  10. Reprezentacja Polski po spotkaniu z działaczami PZPS i wyborze nowego kapitana – sportowefakty.pl – 10-07-2014
  11. Poland win second World Championship title at home – fivb.org – 21-09-2014
  12. Poland put an end to the reign of Brazil – fivb.org – 21-09-2014
  13. FIVB MŚ Polska 2014: Polska ze złotym medalem – plusliga.pl – 21-09-2014
  14. Michał Winiarski: zwycięstwo dedykuję żonie i dzieciom – europsport.onet.pl – 22-09-2014
  15. "Dziękuję za chwile wzruszenia i dumy" Archived 2014-10-27 at the Wayback Machine – prezydent.pl – 27-10-2014
  16. Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 23 października 2014 r. o nadaniu orderów i odznaczeń – isap.sejm.gov.pl – 23-10-2014
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Marcin Możdżonek		 Poland captain
May 2014 – April 2015		 Succeeded by
Michał Kubiak
Awards
Preceded by
Sérgio Santos		 Best Receiver
Olympic Games
Beijing 2008		 Succeeded by
Krzysztof Ignaczak
Preceded by
Aleksandr Bogomolov		 Best Blocker of
CEV Champions League
2008/2009		 Succeeded by
Matevz Kamnik
Preceded by
Péter Veres		 Best Receiver of
CEV Champions League
2011/2012		 Succeeded by
Yury Berezhko

See also
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