Piotr Nurowski
Piotr Nurowski ( born June 20, 1945 in Sandomierz, † April 10, 2010 in Smolensk ) was a Polish sports official, diplomat and businessman.
Life
Piotr Nurowski studied law at Warsaw University and graduated in 1967 from the study. He briefly worked as a sports reporter at the National Polish Radio. 1972 Nurowski only became Vice - President of the Polish Association of Athletics Federations, responsible for youth work, and elected president a year later and was the youngest president of a state association sports world. He remained in this role until 1976 and took it again from 1978 until 1980.
1981 Nurowski employees of the Polish Foreign Ministry. As a diplomat, he worked from 1981 to 1984 in Moscow. From 1986 to 1991, he was Counsellor in Rabat, Morocco. Since 1991 he worked for several companies of the entrepreneur Zygmunt Solorz - Żak. Nurowski was involved in the development of the private television station Polsat and was from 1992 to 1998 member of the board Polsat. Since 1998 he was a member of the Supervisory Board.
In February 2005, Piotr Nurowski was elected President of the Polish Olympic Committee.
On April 10, 2010 Piotr Nurowski belonged to a Polish delegation headed by President Lech Kaczyński, who was to travel on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the Katyn massacre to the memorial to Russia. However, in the plane crash of the delegation near the military airfield Smolensk - North he came together with other high-ranking representatives of Poland died. Nurowski will think as President of the Polish Olympic Committee murdered in Katyn Polish athletes.
Posthumously Nurowski was awarded on April 16, 2010, the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta ( Krzyż Oficerski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski ). On 19 April 2010 Piotr Nurowski was buried in Powązki municipal cemetery in Warsaw. At the funeral ceremony in Warsaw's St. Anne's Church was attended by numerous athletes such as Anita Włodarczyk and Tomasz Majewski, as well as the Vice-President of the Polish Olympic Committee Irena Szewińska. The funeral oration of the Polish government said Sports Minister Adam Giersz.