Piotr Fijas (born 27 July 1958) is a Polish former ski jumper.
Career 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.
The last and all-time world record in parallel style On 14 March 1987, he set the last parallel style ski jumping world record at on Velikanka bratov Gorišek in Planica, Yugoslavia. It was held for seven years and only after that period world record was officially discussed and recognized at FIS Autumn meeting in 1994 (as decided at the FIS Congress in Rio de Janeiro), when the controversial "191 metres rule" established by World Cup founder Torbjørn Yggeseth, was lifted.
World Cup
Standings Season Overall1979/80 16 81980/81 32 351981/82 26 —1982/83 43 131983/84 17 291984/85 14 7 1985/86 15 71986/87 31 1151987/88 55 29
Wins No. Season Date Location Hill Size1 1979/80 27 January 1980 Zakopane Wielka Krokiew K115 2 9 February 1980 St. Nizier Dauphine K112 LH3 1985/86 12 January 1986 Liberec Ještěd A K115 LH
Ski jumping world record The last and all-time parallel style ski jumping world record in history. DateHillLocationMetresFeet14 March 1987 Velikanka bratov Gorišek K185 Planica, Yugoslavia194636
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