Adam Małysz

Adam Małysz is a Polish ski jumper born in 1977 who competed at the top level from 1995 to 2011 and enjoyed enormous popularity in Poland, where he was voted sportsman of the year four times. He won the World Cup overall title four times, a total that matches the male record held by Matti Nykänen, and he was the first man to take three straight overall titles. He took four individual Winter Olympic medals and four individual World Championship gold medals, an all-time record, along with the Four Hills Tournament and three Nordic Tournament titles. After retiring from jumping he drove in the Dakar Rally from 2012 to 2014 and later became chief executive of the Polish Ski Federation.