Piotr Fijas

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Piotr Fijas
Country	Poland
Born	(1958-07-27) 27 July 1958 (age 66) Bielsko-Biała, Poland
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2+1⁄2 in)
Personal best	194 m (636 ft) Planica, 14 March 1987
World Cup career
Seasons	1980–1988
Indiv. starts	62
Indiv. podiums	10
Indiv. wins	3
Medal record Men's ski flying FIS Ski Flying World Championships 1979 Planica Individual
Updated on 10 February 2016.

Piotr Fijas (born 27 July 1958) is a Polish former ski jumper.

Fijas won a bronze medal at the 1979 FIS Ski Flying World Championships in Planica, Yugoslavia (now Slovenia).

He finished seventh on the individual normal hill at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, and scored three individual World Cup wins between 1980 and 1986, all in individual large hill competitions.

On 14 March 1987, he set the last parallel style ski jumping world record at 194 metres (636 ft) on Velikanka bratov Gorišek in Planica, Yugoslavia.^[1][2][3] It was held for seven years and only after that period world record was officially discussed and recognized at FIS Autumn meeting '94 (as decided at FIS Congress in Rio de Janeiro), when ridiculous 191 metres rule established by World Cup founder Torbjørn Yggeseth, was lifted.^[4]

No.	Season	Date	Location	Hill	Size
1	1979/80	27 January 1980	Zakopane	Wielka Krokiew K115	LH
2		9 February 1980	St. Nizier	Dauphine K112	LH
3	1985/86	12 January 1986	Liberec	Ještěd A K115	LH

The last and all-time parallel style ski jumping world record in history.

• Piotr Fijas at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation