Waldemar Baszanowski
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| Born | 15 August 1935 Grudziądz, Poland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 29 April 2011 (aged 75) Warsaw, Poland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 64–67 kg (141–148 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | AZS Warszawa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Waldemar Romuald Baszanowski (15 August 1935 – 29 April 2011) was a Polish lightweight (-67.5 kg) weightlifter.[1] In 1969, he was chosen the Polish Sportspersonality of the Year.
Biography
[edit]Baszanowski was born in Grudziądz on 15 August 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.[1]
Baszanowski set 24 world and 61 national records.[2][3] He won gold medals at the 1964 and 1968 Olympics, 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, 8 July, in which he was the driver; Baszanowski and his son survived.[1]
In 1993 Baszanowski was inducted into the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of Fame.[4] In 1999, he became the President of the European Weightlifting Federation.
In 2007, Baszanowski fell off a tree in his garden, broke his back and was paralyzed from the neck down. After four years of immobility, he died in Warsaw at the age of 75 on 29 April 2011.[1] He is buried at the Służew New Cemetery.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Waldemar Baszanowski". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
- ^ WALDEMAR BASZANOWSKI: Biography. chidlovski.net
- ^ Mała Encyklopedia Sportu. Warszawa: Sport i Turystyka. 1985. p. 64. ISBN 83-217-2518-X.
- ^ "Weightlifting Hall of Fame". International Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original on 13 September 2008. Retrieved 7 August 2008.
- ^ "Dziewiąta rocznica śmierci Waldemara Baszanowskiego". PZPC.
External links
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Media related to Waldemar Baszanowski at Wikimedia Commons
- 1935 births
- 2011 deaths
- Polish male weightlifters
- Olympic gold medalists for Poland
- Olympic weightlifters for Poland
- Olympic medalists in weightlifting
- Weightlifters at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- World Weightlifting Championships medalists
- People from Grudziądz
- Sportspeople from Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship