Piotr Zyla
Skier
Olympic ski jumper who won his first gold medal at the 2017 Lahti World Championship in the Team Large Hill event. He won a bronze in the Individual Large Hill event at the same World Championship.
He was 8 years old when he first put on skis.
He tied the Polish record for ski flight length, a record he shared from January 2013 to March of 2015. He later set the Polish national distance record with a jump of 245.5m in a March 2017 competition.
He married Justyna Lazar in 2006. They have a son named Jakub and daughter Karolina.
He was a classmate of Kamil Stoch at Sports Championships School in Zakopane.