BOXER

Jan Szczepański

1939 - 2017

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Jan Antoni Szczepański (20 November 1939 in Małecz – 15 January 2017 in Warsaw) was a Polish boxer, who won the gold medal in the lightweight division (– 60 kg) at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. In the final he defeated Hungary's László Orbán on points (5:0). Szczepański died on 15 January 2017, after a long illness. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Szczepański is the 161st most popular boxer (up from 170th in 2019), the 1,162nd most popular biography from Poland (up from 1,219th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Boxer.

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Among BOXERS

Among boxers, Jan Szczepański ranks 161 out of 496. Before him are Manfred Wolke, Washington Rodríguez, Salvador Sánchez, Claudio Barrientos, Samuel Mosberg, and Abdelhak Achik. After him are Arturo Rodríguez, Pete Rademacher, Francesco Damiani, Alfonso Zamora, Enrique Rodríguez, and Janusz Gortat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Jan Szczepański ranks 512. Before him are Larry Linville, Manuel Rodríguez, Babben Enger-Damon, Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani, Dudley Storey, and Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker. After him are Giuseppe Beghetto, Johanna Dohnal, Josef Černý, Yoshinobu Miyake, Chris Craft, and Orlando Quevedo. Among people deceased in 2017, Jan Szczepański ranks 490. Before him are Valery Bolotov, Gunnar Birkerts, Walter Lassally, John Kundla, Nikos Koundouros, and Dudley Storey. After him are Luis Garisto, Jeffrey Tate, Henri Emmanuelli, Michael Novak, R. C. Sproul, and Karel Schoeman.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jan Szczepański ranks 1,162 out of 1,694. Before him are Günther Ortmann (1916), Zygmunt Anczok (1946), Zbigniew Zamachowski (1961), Lina Morgenstern (1830), Grzegorz Ryś (1964), and Antoni Słonimski (1895). After him are Józef Lange (1897), Jerzy Szmajdziński (1952), Dieter Grahn (1944), Jadwiga Smosarska (1898), Antoni Szymanowski (1951), and Jacek Yerka (1952).

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Among BOXERS In Poland

Among boxers born in Poland, Jan Szczepański ranks 4. Before him are Andrew Golota (1968), Jerzy Kulej (1940), and Willy Kaiser (1912). After him are Janusz Gortat (1948), Dariusz Michalczewski (1968), Hans Ziglarski (1905), and Tomasz Adamek (1976).

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