Tadeusz Walasek
Personal information | |
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Full name | Tadeusz Walasek |
Nationality | Poland |
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) |
Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Boxing |
Weight class | Middleweight |
Club | Nysa Kłodzko, Gwardia Warszawa |
Medal record | ||
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Representing Poland | ||
Men’s Boxing | ||
Olympic Games | ||
1960 Rome | Middleweight | |
1964 Tokyo | Middleweight | |
European Amateur Championships | ||
1957 Prague | Light Middleweight | |
1959 Lucerne | Middleweight | |
1961 Belgrade | Middleweight |
Tadeusz Walasek (born July 15, 1936 in Elżbiecin, Łomża County) is a retired Polish boxer.[1]
He won a silver medal for Poland at the 1960 Rome Olympic Games in the men's middleweight division (165 lbs/75 kg). Walasek lost a 3-2 decision in the final to Eddie Crook of the United States. Walasek returned again at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games, and won a bronze medal at middleweight.[2]
Walasek participated thrice at the European Amateur Boxing Championships and won 3 medals: two silver medals at Prague 1957 in the Light middleweight division[3] and at Lucerne 1959 in the Middleweight division,[4] and a gold one at Belgrade 1961 in the Middleweight division.[5]
He was the winner of the Aleksander Reksza Boxing Award 1996.[6]
Olympic results
1956 (as a welterweight)
- Lost to Fred Tiedt (Ireland) points
1960 (as a middleweight)
- Defeated Sultan Mahmoud (Iraq)
- Defeated Teifion Davies (Australia)
- Defeated Frederik van Royen (South Africa)
- Defeated Yevgeny Feofanov (Soviet Union)
- Lost to Edward Crook (United States) 2-3
1964 (as a middleweight)
- Defeated John Bukowski (Australia) 5-0
- Defeated Juae Aguilar (Argentina) 5-0
- Defeated Ahmed Hassan (United Arab Republic) 5-0
- Lost to Valeri Popenchenko (Soviet Union) KO
References
- 1936 births
- Living people
- People from Łomża County
- Polish boxers
- Olympic boxers of Poland
- Boxers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Boxers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Boxers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Poland
- Olympic bronze medalists for Poland
- Polish boxing biography stubs
- Polish Olympic medalist stubs