Micha艂 Winiarski


Micha艂 Winiarski 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, 2014 World Champion, a gold medalist of the 2012 World League, silver medalist of the 2006 World Championship and 2011 World Cup, three鈥搕ime Polish Champion and one time Italian Champion. A head coach of Polish club Trefl Gda艅sk.

Personal life

Micha艂 Winiarski was born in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He graduated from the School of Sports Championship in Spa艂a. He studied at the Management and Administration College in Opole. On May 13, 2006 he married Dagmara. On November 28, 2006 their son Oliwier was born. On March 13, 2014 his wife gave birth to their second son, named Antoni.
against LOTOS Trefl Gda艅sk.
, Katowice with 艁ukasz 呕ygad艂o.
in Katowice. In the foreground from left: Zbigniew Bartman, Bartosz Kurek, Winiarski and Krzysztof Ignaczak.
with Asseco Resovia Rzesz贸w on November 30, 2014 at Atlas Arena.

Career

Clubs

His first professional club was Chemik Bydgoszcz. With the team AZS Cz臋stochowa, Winiarski was twice a bronze medalist in the Polish Championship. He spent one season 2005/2006 as a player of BOT Skra Be艂chat贸w 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 and silver medals from the Italian Championship. In 2009 he returned to the Polish team PGE Skra Be艂chat贸w. 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, Be艂chat贸w, the Polish Cup twice, in 2011 and 2012. In 2010, PGE Skra Be艂chat贸w, 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 艁贸d藕, 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. Micha艂 Winiarski won the award for Best Receiver in the CEV Champions League 2011/2012. He played for Skra Be艂chat贸w in Poland until May 2013, when he announced that he had signed a 2-year contract with a Russian Superleague club, Fakel Novy Urengoy, but he only spent one season in Russia. On June 16, 2014, it was officially announced that Winiarski was returning to Be艂chat贸w and had signed a two-year contract with PGE Skra Be艂chat贸w. On October 8, 2014 his team won ENEA Polish SuperCup 2014. On February 7, 2016 he played with PGE Skra and won the 2016 Polish Cup after beating ZAKSA in the final. In April 2016 he was a member of the same team which won a bronze medal in the 2015鈥16 PlusLiga championship.
On April 14, 2017 he announced ending up his sports career on April 19, 2017 at Atlas Arena in first match of PGE Skra Be艂chat贸w in 2016鈥17 PlusLiga finals. His last match was the finale on April 23, 2017. He achieved a silver medal of 2016鈥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 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. On July 8, 2012, the Polish national team won the gold medal of the World League 2012 in Sofia, Bulgaria. So far, he has played 212 matches in the Polish national team. In May 2014, Winiarski was chosen as the new captain of the national team, replacing the previous holder of the title, Marcin Mo偶d偶onek. On September 21, 2014, Poland, with Winiarski as Captain, won the title of World Champion 2014. On the same day, Winiarski announced his retirement from the Polish national team. On October 27, 2014, Winiarski received a state award granted by the Polish President, Bronis艂aw Komorowski: the Officer's Cross of Polonia Restituta for outstanding sports achievements and the promotion of Poland in the world. In April 2015 he was replaced as captain by Karol K艂os, but K艂os was injured and Micha艂 Kubiak was the replacement captain.

Coaching career

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

[CEV Champions League]