Janez Polda

{{Infobox skier

| name = Janez Polda

| image = Janez Polda.jpg

| caption = Janez Polda in 1962

| nationality = {{flag|Yugoslavia}}

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1924|5|25|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Mojstrana, Ljubljana Oblast,
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1964|3|20|1924|5|25}}

| death_place = Mojstrana, Yugoslavia

| personalbest = {{convert|114|m|ft|abbr=on}}
Planica, Yugoslavia
(17 March 1950)

}}

Janez Polda (25 May 1924 in Mojstrana – 20 March 1964) was a Yugoslavian between ski jumper who competed between 1948 and 1956.

Career

He finished 41st in the individual large hill at the 1948 Winter Olympics in Sankt Moritz, tied for 16th at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo and was 24th at the 1956 Games. Polda's best career finish was fifth in an individual normal hill event in Austria in 1956.

Invalid ski jumping world record

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!style="background-color: #ccc;" width="108"|Date

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| align=right|14 March 1948

| Bloudkova velikanka

| Planica, Yugoslavia

| align=center|120

| align=center|394

{{color box|#FAEBD7}} Not recognized! Touch ground at world record distance.{{cite web|title=Izredni uspehi slovenskih in inozemskih skakalcev v Planici, p.6|url=http://www.dlib.si/stream/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-7VBJ9APT/c6980161-8717-43dd-b3af-e3a39e1295e9/PDF|publisher=Slovenski poročevalec|date=16 March 1948|language=sl}}{{cite web|title=Jugoslovan Polda je skočl 120 m, Švicar Charles Blum pa 121 m (page 1)|url=http://www.dlib.si/listalnik/URN_NBN_SI_doc-KXAP8SBM/index.html#zoom=z|publisher=Ljudska pravica|date=15 March 1948|language=sl}}

References

External links

{{FIS ski jumper|48482}}
[http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/olymp/srskjmi.html Olympic ski jumping results: 1948-60]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20121015194118/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/po/janez-polda-1.html Janez Polda's profile at Sports Reference.com]
[http://www.gorenjci.si/Default.aspx?id=480 Biography in Slovene] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091006022522/http://www.gorenjci.si/Default.aspx?id=480 |date=2009-10-06 }}

Category:Olympic ski jumpers for Yugoslavia

Category:Ski jumpers at the 1948 Winter Olympics

Category:Ski jumpers at the 1952 Winter Olympics

Category:Ski jumpers at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Category:Yugoslav male ski jumpers

Category:Slovenian male ski jumpers

Category:1924 births

Category:1964 deaths

Category:People from the Municipality of Kranjska Gora