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Jacek Wszoła

1956 - Today

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Jacek Roman Wszoła (born 30 December 1956 in Warsaw, Poland) is a retired Polish high jumper best known for winning gold and silver medals at the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics respectively. Wszoła is also a one-time world record holder with the result of 2.35 metres. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacek Wszoła is the 1,954th most popular athlete (down from 1,453rd in 2019), the 1,214th most popular biography from Poland (down from 1,177th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Polish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Jacek Wszoła ranks 1,954 out of 6,025Before him are Johannes Terwogt, Ghiță Licu, Ronald Lopatni, Cyril Slater, Clarence Oldfield, and Marga Petersen. After him are Yelena Petushkova, Steve Prefontaine, Jozef Pribilinec, Stefan Holm, Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek, and August Rodenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Jacek Wszoła ranks 478Before him are Andrew Lesnie, Ingvar Ambjørnsen, Mike Godwin, Sofia Corban, Carol V. Robinson, and Karel Jarolím. After him are Dean Butler, Steve Archibald, Catherine Corsini, Miloš Šestić, Noga Alon, and Juliet Stevenson.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jacek Wszoła ranks 1,214 out of 1,694Before him are Tomasz Kuszczak (1982), Maksymilian Gierymski (1846), Leszek Drogosz (1933), Bogumił Kobiela (1931), Józef Kałuża (1896), and Sergey Lebedev (1874). After him are Salomon Bochner (1899), George E. Stone (1903), Henryk Wieczorek (1949), Kazimierz Lipień (1949), Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański (1950), and Wojciech Fortuna (1952).

Among ATHLETES In Poland

Among athletes born in Poland, Jacek Wszoła ranks 43Before him are Jerzy Kaczmarek (1948), Tadeusz Rut (1931), Zygmunt Chychła (1926), Meinhard Nehmer (1941), Józef Zapędzki (1929), and Teodor Kocerka (1927). After him are Arkadiusz Godel (1952), Bronisław Malinowski (1951), Marek Dąbrowski (1949), Jan Kowalczyk (1941), Barbara Sobotta (1936), and Marian Dudziak (1941).