Waldemar Baszanowski
| Medal record | ||
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| Men's Weightlifting | ||
Competitor for  Poland
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| Olympic Games | ||
| Gold | 1964 Tokyo | -67.5 kg |
| Gold | 1968 Mexico City | -67.5 kg |
| World Championships | ||
| Gold | 1961 Vienna | -67.5 kg |
| Gold | 1964 Tokyo | -67.5 kg |
| Gold | 1965 Tehran | -67.5 kg |
| Gold | 1968 Mexico | -67.5 kg |
| Gold | 1969 Warsaw | -67.5 kg |
| Silver | 1962 Budapest | -67.5 kg |
| Silver | 1963 Stockholm | -67.5 kg |
| Silver | 1966 Budapest | -75 kg |
| Silver | 1970 Columbus | -67.5 kg |
| Silver | 1971 Lima | -67.5 kg |
Waldemar Romuald Baszanowski (1935-2011) was a Polish lightweight (less than 67.5 kg) weightlifter.
Biography
Baszanowski was born in Grudziądz on August 15, 1935. A month after his 25th birthday he competed for the World Championships in his sport. He became over the course of the next ten years the most decorated lightweight weightlifter at international level in the first century of its widespread competition, the 20th century.
He set 24 world records and 61 records of Poland.[1] won gold medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City in the lightweight category. Baszanowski won five World Championships and five silver medals, giving him a total of 10 medals, more than any weightlifter in history (to date).
His first wife Anita was killed in a car accident in 1969, July 8, in which he was the driver.
In 1993 he was elected member of the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of Fame.[2] In 1999, he became the President of the European Weightlifting Federation. Baszanowski died in Warsaw at the age of 75 on April 29, 2011.
Notes and references
- ↑ Mała Encyklopedia Sportu. Warszawa: Sport i Turystyka. 1985. p. 64. ISBN 83-217-2518-X.
- ↑ "Weightlifting Hall of Fame". International Weightlifting Federation. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
| Awards | ||
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| Preceded by Jerzy Pawłowski |
Polish Sportspersonality of the Year 1969 |
Succeeded by Teresa Sukniewicz |
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