Tadeusz Walasek

Tadeusz Walasek

Tadeusz Walasek (right) facing Vielhauer in Berlin, 1963
Personal information
Full name	Tadeusz Walasek
Nationality	Poland
Born	(1936-07-15)July 15, 1936 Elżbiecin, Łomża County, Podlaskie
Died	November 4, 2011(2011-11-04) (aged 75)
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	76 kg (168 lb)
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Rated at	Middleweight
Club	Nysa Kłodzko, Gwardia Warszawa

Tadeusz Walasek

Medal record
Competitor for  Poland
Men’s Boxing
Olympic Games
Silver	1960 Rome	Middleweight
Bronze	1964 Tokyo	Middleweight
European Amateur Championships
Silver	1957 Prague	Light Middleweight
Silver	1959 Lucerne	Middleweight
Gold	1961 Belgrade	Middleweight

Tadeusz Walasek (July 15, 1936 – November 4, 2011) was a Polish boxer.^[1][2][3]

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.^[1][4]

Walasek participated thrice at the European Amateur Boxing Championships and won 3 medals: two silver medals at Prague 1957 in the Light middleweight division^[5] and at Lucerne 1959 in the Middleweight division,^[6] and a gold one at Belgrade 1961 in the Middleweight division.^[7]

He was the winner of the Aleksander Reksza Boxing Award 1996.^[8]

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

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