ZATORSKI Pawel

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
5	Men	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA

World Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Men	2018
1	Men	2014	Poland

Nations League - Final Round

Rank	Event	Year	Location
2	Men	2021	Italy
5	Men	2018	France

European Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Men	2019
10	Men	2017	Poland

Zati, Zator, Duracell (weszlo.com, 13 May 2019; se.pl, 16 Sep 2019)

Football, tennis. (zaksa.pl, 2020; przegladsportowy.pl, 09 Dec 2020)

Athlete

Sports Marketing - School of Management and Administration, Opole, POL

Wife Agnieszka, sons Samuel and Maksymilian [2019]

English, Polish

ZAKSA Kedzierzyn-Kozle [Poland] since 2014/15

Vital Heynen [national], BEL

Libero (FIVB, 23 May 2014)

2009 for Poland Against Brazil, World League in Lodz, Poland (plusliga.pl, 30 Jun 2009)

He missed both matches of the semifinal in the 2020/21 PlusLiga in Poland. He returned in time to play in the final. (pzps.pl, 07 Apr 2021; przegladsportowy.pl, 11 Apr 2021)

His training was disrupted due to injury ahead of the 2019 European Championship but it did not prevent him from competing at the event. (se.pl, 16 Sep 2019)

His training was disrupted ahead of the 2018 World Championship in Italy and Bulgaria due to a back injury. (se.pl, 19 Aug 2018; rmf24.pl, 16 Sep 2018)

PlusLiga [POL] (przegladsportowy.pl, 24 Mar 2021)

He took up volleyball in primary school in Belchatow, Poland. (siatkowka24.pl, 12 Jun 2009; onet.pl, 14 Oct 2018)

He initially played football as a child, but had to take a break from the sport because of a heel injury. His older brother had began playing volleyball, so he went along to watch him. The volleyball coach asked him if he wanted to join in, and from then on he continued to play volleyball. (siatkowka24.pl, 12 Jun 2009)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (przegladsportowy.pl, 09 Dec 2020)

Winning gold at the 2014 and 2018 World Championships. (fivb.com, 25 Jan 2019; naszemiasto.pl, 06 Oct 2018)

French volleyball player Stephane Antiga, Swiss tennis player Roger Federer. (Ludzie Ze Zlota, 2019; zaksa.pl, 2020)

"With a smile on your face all is better and easier." (zaksa.pl, 2020)

He was named 2019 Athlete of the Year in the Opolskie Region of Poland. (budowlaniopole.pl, 01 Feb 2020)

In 2018 he was presented with the Knight's Cross of Order of Polonia Restituta by the president of Poland. (prezydent.pl, 02 Oct 2018)

He was named Best Libero at the 2018 World Championship in Italy and Bulgaria. (fivb.com, 25 Jan 2019)

He was named Best Libero in the 2015 World League. (FIVB, 19 Jul 2015)

He was presented with the Gold Cross of Merit by the president of Poland in 2014. (sejm.gov.pl, 23 Oct 2014)

He received the Best Defensive Player award in the 2010/11 and 2011/12 editions of the Polish Cup. (polskieradio.pl, 22 Jan 2012; nowiny24.pl, 23 Jan 2011)

He was named Best Libero at the 2010 Club World Championship in Doha, Qatar. (volleycountry.com, 21 Dec 2010)