Malysz wins world championship with Prime Minister Buzek cheering him on

Adam Malysz became the first Pole to win a world championship in ski-jumping, having won the medium hill competition in Lahti, Finland, on Friday. Malysz trailed Martin Schmitt of Germany after the first round, but achieved a splendid result of 98 meters in his second jump. Schmitt came second and Hoellwarth from Austria third. Malysz won despite freezing temperature of -29 C, which did not discourage thousands of spectators, among whom was Poland's Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek. Last Monday the Polish jumper won a silver in the big hill event. (Gazeta Wyborcza, Feb. 24-25, pp.1,32) M.K.