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Jan Kowalczyk

1941 - 2020

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Jan Kowalczyk (18 December 1941 – 24 February 2020) was a Polish show jumper who competed in the 1968, 1972 and 1980 Olympics. He won an individual gold and a team silver medal in 1980. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2024). Jan Kowalczyk is the 1,979th most popular athlete (down from 1,971st in 2024), the 1,234th most popular biography from Poland (up from 1,259th in 2019) and the 47th most popular Polish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Jan Kowalczyk ranks 1,979 out of 6,025. Before him are Aleksey Spiridonov, William Dickey, John Porter, Uroš Marović, Frank Amyot, and Marek Dąbrowski. After him are Wang Junxia, Boris Shukhov, Uschi Disl, Bertha Brouwer, Gert Blomé, and Kurt Schmid.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Jan Kowalczyk ranks 570. Before him are Miroslav Verner, Javier Vargas, Kim Eui-tae, Irma Thomas, Anandiben Patel, and Antonina Lazareva. After him are Max Baucus, Long John Baldry, Ray Thomas, Oja Kodar, Nelson López, and Gabriel De Michèle. Among people deceased in 2020, Jan Kowalczyk ranks 685. Before him are Georg Volkert, Mike Moore, Amadou Gon Coulibaly, Beverly Pepper, Blagoja Georgievski, and Joe Williams. After him are Saufatu Sopoanga, Touriya Jabrane, Mary Kay Letourneau, Allen Daviau, Oliver Friggieri, and Larry Kramer.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jan Kowalczyk ranks 1,234 out of 1,694. Before him are Anna Fotyga (1957), Dietrich Stobbe (1938), Bronisław Malinowski (1951), Marek Dąbrowski (1949), Dariusz Michalczewski (1968), and Grzegorz Krychowiak (1990). After him are Jan Furtok (1962), Anna Held (1872), Jürgen Colombo (1949), Stanisław Barańczak (1946), Piotr Świerczewski (1972), and Jan Urban (1962).

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Among ATHLETES In Poland

Among athletes born in Poland, Jan Kowalczyk ranks 47. Before him are Józef Zapędzki (1929), Teodor Kocerka (1927), Jacek Wszoła (1956), Arkadiusz Godel (1952), Bronisław Malinowski (1951), and Marek Dąbrowski (1949). After him are Barbara Sobotta (1936), Marian Dudziak (1941), Andrzej Badeński (1943), Stanisław Szozda (1950), Ryszard Parulski (1938), and Zbigniew Jaremski (1949).

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