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Józef Zapędzki

1929 - 2022

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Józef Zapędzki (11 March 1929 – 15 February 2022) was a Polish sport shooter. He competed at five consecutive Olympics from 1964 to 1980 in 25 m rapid fire pistol and won two gold medals, in 1968 and 1972. He is one of three shooters to have successfully defended the men's 25 m rapid fire pistol Olympic title. He is a 23-time Polish Champion. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Józef Zapędzki is the 1,825th most popular athlete (up from 2,284th in 2019), the 1,190th most popular biography from Poland (up from 1,305th in 2019) and the 41st most popular Polish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Józef Zapędzki ranks 1,825 out of 6,025. Before him are Pierre Blondiaux, Reinhold Durnthaler, Harald Hein, Kalle Jalkanen, Eva Dawes, and Humberto Mariles. After him are Tom Price, Darya Domracheva, Yulia Ryabchinskaya, Tamara Bykova, John McNally, and Haruki Uemura.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Józef Zapędzki ranks 490. Before him are Carlos Torres, Gabriel Ochoa Uribe, Bruno Junk, Hal Blaine, Henry Proctor, and Richard Rush. After him are Jerzy Antczak, Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, Benny Andersen, Ralph McQuarrie, Desmond Hoyte, and Gheorghe Fiat. Among people deceased in 2022, Józef Zapędzki ranks 541. Before him are Judith Durham, Yury Zaitsev, Jeroen Brouwers, Sergio Brighenti, Sture Allén, and Alice von Hildebrand. After him are John McNally, Erhard Busek, Django Sissoko, Fabián O'Neill, Carlo Galli, and Igor Maslennikov.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Józef Zapędzki ranks 1,190 out of 1,694. Before him are Zbigniew Namysłowski (1939), Joanna Hoffman (1955), Edyta Górniak (1972), Henryk Iwaniec (1947), Franciszek Gągor (1951), and Meinhard Nehmer (1941). After him are Maria Janion (1926), Friedrich Scherfke (1909), Zbigniew Gut (1949), Tomasz Stankiewicz (1902), Teodor Kocerka (1927), and Lesław Ćmikiewicz (1948).

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Among ATHLETES In Poland

Among athletes born in Poland, Józef Zapędzki ranks 41. Before him are Wiesław Rudkowski (1946), Dieter Grahn (1944), Jerzy Kaczmarek (1948), Tadeusz Rut (1931), Zygmunt Chychła (1926), and Meinhard Nehmer (1941). After him are Teodor Kocerka (1927), Jacek Wszoła (1956), Arkadiusz Godel (1952), Bronisław Malinowski (1951), Marek Dąbrowski (1949), and Jan Kowalczyk (1941).

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