Zbigniew Bartman

Zbigniew Bartman
Zbigniew Bartman
Personal information
Full name	Zbigniew Andrzej Bartman
Nickname	Zibi
Nationality	Polish
Born	4 May 1987 (age 34); Warszawa, Poland
Height	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)
Weight	97 kg (214 lb)
Spike	363 cm (143 in)
Volleyball information
Position	Outside hitter / Opposite
Current club	Al–Nasr Dubai
Career
2004–2005; 2005–2007; 2007–2008; 2008–2009; 2009; 2009–2010; 2010–2011; 2011–2012; 2012–2013; 2013–2014; 2014–2015; 2015–2016; 2016; 2016; 2016–2017; 2017–2019; 2019–2020; 2020; 2021–	Płomień Sosnowiec; BluVolley Verona; Halkbank Ankara; AZS Częstochowa; Gazprom-Ugra Surgut; Prisma Volley; AZS Politechnika Warszawska; Jastrzębski Węgiel; Asseco Resovia; Modena Volley; Jastrzębski Węgiel; Sichuan Chengdu; Stade Poitevin Poitiers ; Al Rayyan SC; Galatasaray İstanbul; UPCN Vóley Club; Asseco Resovia; Stal Nysa; Al–Nasr Dubai
National team
2008–2013	Poland (137)
Honours
Representing Poland
Men's volleyball
FIVB World Cup
FIVB World League
CEV European Championship

Zbigniew Andrzej Bartman (born 4 May 1987) is a Polish volleyball player, member of the Poland men's national volleyball team in 2008–2013, participant at the 2012 Olympic Games, 2009 European Champion, 2012 World League winner, silver medalist at the 2011 World Cup, Polish Champion (2013), Argentine Champion (2018).

Personal life[]

Zbigniew Bartman was born in 1987 in Warsaw. He has a child born in 2019.^[1]

Career[]

Before his career as an indoor volleyball player, Bartman played beach volleyball with Michał Kubiak. They won a gold medal at the European U-18 Championship in 2004 and a silver medal at the World U-18 Championship,^[2] also in 2004. Both Kubiak and Bartman gave up playing beach volleyball.

Clubs[]

Bartman debuted in PlusLiga for the club MOS Wola Warszawa during a match against Skra Bełchatów in 2003. In 2013/2014, he played for Italian club Casa Modena.^[3] With the Italian team, he played in the semifinals of the Italian Championship, but lost in matches against Lube Banca Macerata. On July 2014, Bartman announced he would be returning to Polish club, Jastrzębski Węgiel, where he played in the 2012/2013 season.^[4] His team took 4th place in 2014–15 PlusLiga. On 19 June 2015 he announced that he moved to Chinese team Sichuan Chengdu, together with Michal Lasko – one of his team mates from previous club.^[5] In February 2016 Bartman decided to change club and moved to French Stade Poitevin Poitiers because of the injury crisis affecting the French club.^[6]

National team[]

In 2009, he won a gold medal in the European Championship. He began his career as an outside hitter, but the coach of Polish national team at the time, Andrea Anastasi, persuaded him to change his position on the court to wing-spiker. On 14 September 2009 he was awarded Knight's Cross of Polonia Restituta.^[7] The Order was conferred on the following day by the Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk. With the Polish national team, he won two medals in 2011: silver at World Cup^[8] and bronze at World League,^[9] where during the Poland - Bulgaria match, he was injured. For this reason, he did not participate in the European Championship, where his teammates won bronze medals. He was a gold medalist at the World League 2012 in Sofia, Bulgaria.^[10]^[11] In addition, he received an award for Best Spiker.