Teresa Weyna

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Teresa Weyna
Personal information
Full name Teresa Urszula Weyna
Alternative names Teresa Weyna-Urban
Country represented Poland
Born (1950-05-30) 30 May 1950 (age 74)
Toruń, Poland
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Former partner Piotr Bojańczyk
Former coach Anna Bursche-Lindner
Jan Bojańczyk
Former skating club Marymont Warszawa
Ogniwo Warszawa
Warszawianka
Pomorzanin Toruń
Former training locations Warsaw
Toruń
Retired 1976

Teresa Urszula Weyna (born 30 May 1950) is a Polish former ice dancer. Skating with Piotr Bojańczyk, she became a nine-time Polish national champion (1968–76) and placed in the top ten at six European Championships, three World Championships, and the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Personal life

Weyna was born 30 May 1950 in Toruń, one of five daughters of Urszula Jadwiga Falkowska and Alfred Kazimierz Weyna.[1] Her sisters were also figure skaters and her mother officiated at domestic skating events.[1]

Known as Weyna-Urban while married to her ex-husband, she gave birth to twin daughters, Katarzyna and Karolina, in 1979 and a son, Bartosz, in 1980.[1]

Career

Weyna teamed up with Piotr Bojańczyk in autumn 1965.[2] In the 1967–68 season, the duo won the Polish Championships for the first time and were given their ISU Championship debut at the 1968 European Championships. They finished 16th at the event in Västerås, Sweden.

In the 1974–75 season, Weyna/Bojańczyk won the bronze medal at the 1974 Prize of Moscow News and achieved their career-best World placement, seventh, at the 1975 World Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

The following season, Weyna/Bojańczyk won their ninth consecutive national title.[3] Their highest European result, seventh, came at the 1976 European Championships in Geneva, Switzerland. The duo placed ninth in Innsbruck, Austria at the 1976 Winter Olympics. They retired from competition after the 1976 World Championships.

Weyna represented several skating clubs during her competitive career — Pomorzanin Toruń (1960–71), Warszawianka (1972), Ogniwo Warszawa (1973–75), and Marymont Warszawa (1976), coached by Jan Bojańczyk in Toruń and Anna Bursche-Lindner in Warsaw.[1] After retiring from competition, she became a skating coach. As of 2013, she coaches synchro skaters in Gdańsk.[4]

Competitive highlights

(with Bojańczyk)

International
Event 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76
Olympics 9th
World Champ. 13th 14th 13th 10th 7th 9th
European Champ. 16th 15th 9th 9th 9th 12th 9th 8th 7th
Moscow News 3rd
National
Polish Champ. 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st

References

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