A sheet-metal sculpture by Piotr Latoska from 1963 on Żwirki i Wigury Square in Ruda, restored in 2021.
Miner-Olympian (Górnik-Olimpijczyk) is an open-air sculpture in the Ruda district of Ruda Śląska, set up on Żwirki i Wigury Square. It shows a kneeling figure with the left arm raised, holding an Olympic torch or a miner's lamp.
The monument was made by the Ruda sculptor Piotr Latoska in 1962-1963. The sculpture is welded from sheet metal on a steel frame and stands on a triangular plinth. The elongated limbs and reduced forms are typical of Silesian open-air sculpture of the turn of the 1950s and 1960s.
In 2021 the monument underwent thorough conservation as part of the public sculpture programme of the Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko. Nearby are also the Museum of the History of the Polish People's Republic and the church in Szombierki.
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