Hubert Wagner
Personal information
Full name	Hubert Aleksander Wagner
Nickname	Jurek,Gruby,Kat
Born	(1941-03-04)4 March 1941 Poznań, Poland
Died	13 March 2002(2002-03-13) (aged 61) Warsaw, Poland
Coaching information
Previous teams coached Years Teams 1973–1976 1977–1985 1978–1979 1983–1985 1986–1987 1987–1988 1991–1993 1994–1995 1996–1997 1996–1998 1997–1998 1997–1999 1999–2000 Poland Legia Warsaw Poland (W) Poland Filament Bursa Tunisia Halkbank Ankara Stilon Gorzów Wielkopolski Skra Warsaw (W) Poland Dick Black Andrychów (W) Morze Bałtyk Szczecin Legia Warsaw
Career
Years Teams 000000000 AZS Poznań AZS AWF Warsaw Skra Warsaw
National team
1963–1971  Poland(194)
Honours Men'svolleyball Representing Poland CEV European Championship 1967 Turkey Head coach Poland Olympic Games 1976 Montreal FIVB World Championship 1974 Mexico CEV European Championship 1975 Yugoslavia 1983 East Germany Head coach Tunisia CAVB African Championship 1987 Tunisia

Hubert Aleksander Wagner (a.k.a.Hubert Jerzy Wagner) (4 March 1941 – 13 March 2002) was a Polishvolleyball player and coach. He was a member of the Poland national team from 1963 to 1971, a participant in theMexico 1968 Olympics, and a bronze medallist at the1967 European Championship. As a head coach, he led Poland to become the1974 World Champions and the1976 Olympic Champions.

Wagner was born inPoznań. His parents were Romuald and Zofia (née Kotlińska). He had two younger siblings, Elżbieta (born 1946) and Leszek.

Wagner was married twice. On 15 October 1963, he marriedDanuta Kordaczuk, an Olympic medal winningvolleyball player with medals in the World and European Championships. The couple had one son,Grzegorz Wagner (born 1965), a professional volleyballsetter and coach.^[1] The couple divorced in 1978.

In 1979, he married Anna Baraniecka. In the last two years of his life, his partner was Danuta Marzec. He had three grandchildren: Iwo (born 1991), who played as a setter and is now ascout; Jakub (born 1993), who is also a volleyball player; and Sara (born 2003).^[2]

In 1973, he became head coach of the Polish men's national volleyball team at 32 years old. He was demanding and greatly valued physical preparation of his players. In 1974, he led the team to win theVolleyball Men's World Championship.^[3] In the subsequent year, they won silver in theEuropean Championship 1975 held inYugoslavia.

On 30 July 1976, the national men's volleyball team became the1976 Olympic Champions.^[4] Despite Polish volleyball players spending11+1⁄2 hours on the court while their opponents only spent five hours, Wagner's team still beat theSoviet Union in a tie-break. Two months after this success, he left the national team.

• Domestic
  • 1962–63 Polish Championship, withAZS AWF Warsaw
  • 1964–65 Polish Championship, with AZS AWF Warsaw
  • 1965–66 Polish Championship, with AZS AWF Warsaw
  • 1967–68 Polish Championship, with AZS AWF Warsaw

• Domestic
  • 1982–83 Polish Championship, withLegia Warsaw
  • 1991–92 Turkish Championship, withHalkbank Ankara
  • 1992–93 Turkish Championship, with Halkbank Ankara

On 13 March 2002, after a meeting with the Polish Association of Volleyball inWarsaw, Wagner suffered a car accident triggered by a heart attack.^[5] Despite rapid resuscitation, he died. An autopsy showed advancedcoronary artery disease. He was buried at theNorthern Communal Cemetery in Warsaw.^[6]

TheMemorial of Hubert Jerzy Wagner is an annual three-day volleyball tournament with four national teams invited by Poland held since 2003.

Wagner was admitted to the International Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2010.^[7]

Five schools and two sports arenas in Poland are named after him.

Wikimedia Commons has media related toHubert Wagner.

• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen;Mallon, Bill; et al."Hubert Wagner".Olympics at Sports-Reference.com.Sports Reference LLC. Archived fromthe original on 2015-10-16.

Sporting positions
Preceded by Tadeusz Szlagor	Head coach ofPoland 1973–1976	Succeeded by Jerzy Welcz
Preceded by Aleksander Skiba	Head coach ofPoland 1983–1986	Succeeded by Stanisław Gościniak
Preceded by Wiktor Krebok	Head coach ofPoland 1996–1998	Succeeded by Ireneusz Mazur

• 1941 births
• 2002 deaths
• Volleyball players from Poznań
• Polish men's volleyball players
• Polish volleyball coaches
• Volleyball coaches of international teams
• Olympic volleyball players for Poland
• Volleyball players at the 1968 Summer Olympics
• Polish expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
• Polish expatriate sportspeople in Tunisia
• Legia Warsaw (men's volleyball) coaches
• International Volleyball Hall of Fame inductees
• 20th-century Polish sportsmen

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