Tadeusz Walasek was a Polish boxer died he was 75.[1][2][3]
(July 15, 1936 – November 4, 2011)
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 Tie
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