Piotr Gruszka

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Piotr Gruszka
Piotr Gruszka - FIVB World Championship European Qualification Women Łódź January 2014.jpg
Personal information
Full namePiotr Łukasz Gruszka
NicknameGrucha
NationalityPoland Polish
Born (1977-03-08) 8 March 1977 (age 44)
Oświęcim, Poland
HometownKęty, Poland
Height2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)
Coaching information
Previous teams coached
YearsTeams
2014–2015
2016–2019
2017–2018
2019–2020		BBTS Bielsko-Biała
GKS Katowice
Poland (AC)
Asseco Resovia
Volleyball information
PositionOpposite
Career
YearsTeams
1989–1993
1993–1995
1995–1999
1999–2000
2000–2002
2002–2003
2003–2004
2004–2005
2005–2006
2006–2008
2008–2009
2009–2010
2010–2011
2011–2012
2012–2013		Poland Hejnał Kęty
Poland BBTS Bielsko-Biała
Poland AZS Częstochowa
Italy Pallavolo Padova
Italy Cagliari Volley
Italy AdriaVolley Trieste
France Tourcoing LM
Poland Skra Bełchatów
Poland AZS Olsztyn
Poland Skra Bełchatów
Turkey Arkas İzmir
Poland Delecta Bydgoszcz
Turkey Halkbank Ankara
Italy Porto Ravenna Volley
Poland AZS Olsztyn
National team
1995–2011 Poland (450)
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Honours
Men's volleyball
Representing  Poland
FIVB World Championship
Silver medal – second place 2006 Japan
FIVB World League
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Gdańsk
CEV European Championship
Gold medal – first place 2009 Turkey
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Austria/Czech Republic

Piotr Łukasz Gruszka (born 8 March 1977) is a former Polish volleyball player, member of the Poland men's national volleyball team in 1995–2011, participant of the Olympic Games (Atlanta 1996, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008), 2009 European Champion, silver medalist of the 2006 World Championship, bronze medalist of the 2011 World League and 2011 European Championship, five–time Polish Champion (1995, 1997, 2005, 2007, 2008), volleyball coach.

Personal life[]

Piotr Gruszka was born in Oświęcim, but raised in Kęty, Poland. He is married to Aleksandra (née Szettel). They have two children: daughter Maria Aleksandra (born 26 August 2005) and son named Julian (born 1 March 2010).

In 2014 he took part in 14th season of Polish version of Dancing with the Stars. His pro dancer was Nina Tyrka. They were eliminated as 8th couple and took 5th place.

Gruszka as a player of the Polish national team on 29 May 2010.
As the Indykpol AZS Olsztyn player in the match against LOTOS Trefl Gdańsk on 23 November 2012.

Career[]

National team[]

Piotr Gruszka was member of the national Polish team that won silver medal of World Championship 2006. Gruszka won gold medal of European Championship 2009,[1] where he was Most Valuable Player. On 14 September 2009 he was awarded Knight's Cross of Polonia Restituta.[2] The Order was conferred on the following day by the Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk. He won with Polish team two bronze medals in 2011 at World League[3] and European Championship.[4]

Sporting achievements[]

Clubs[]

Youth national team[]

Individual awards[]

State awards[]

External links[]

Sporting positions
Preceded by
Poland Paweł Zagumny 		Poland captain
2004 – June 2009
September 2009
June 2010
October 2010 – November 2011 		Succeeded by
Poland Marcin Możdżonek
Preceded by
France Philippe Blain 		Coach assistant of Poland
2017
ex-aequo Oskar Kaczmarczyk 		Succeeded by
Poland Michał Mieszko Gogol
Poland Sebastian Pawlik
Awards
Preceded by
Czech Republic Martin Lebl 		Best Spiker of
CEV European Championship
2003 		Succeeded by
Spain Israel Rodríguez
Preceded by
Russia Semyon Poltavskiy 		Most Valuable Player of
CEV European Championship
2009 		Succeeded by
Serbia Ivan Miljković

References[]

  1. ^ 2009 CEV European Championships Results – cev.eu – 03-09-2009
  2. ^ Reprezentacja siatkarzy odznaczona przez prezydenta – prezydent.pl – 15-09-2009
  3. ^ 2011 FIVB Volleyball World League Final Report – fivb.org – 10-07-2011
  4. ^ Bartosz Kurek is the man of the day as Poland strikes bronze at EuroVolley – cev.eu – 18-09-2011
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