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Zbigniew Pietrzykowski

1934 - 2014

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Zbigniew Jan Pietrzykowski (4 October 1934 – 19 May 2014) was a Polish boxer. He took part in three Olympic Games, each time winning a medal. He won a bronze medal at Melbourne 1956 in the light middleweight division, after losing in the semi-final to Hungarian László Papp. Four years later in Rome, he reached the final of the light heavyweight division, where he lost to Cassius Clay, who was 7 years younger. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Zbigniew Pietrzykowski is the 847th most popular athlete (down from 511th in 2019), the 983rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 938th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Polish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Zbigniew Pietrzykowski ranks 847 out of 6,025Before him are Håkon Brusveen, Gabriele Hinzmann, Ernesto Formenti, Ilmar Kullam, Ingrid Auerswald, and Jüri Tamm. After him are Paul Martin, Gösta Andersson, Antero Kivi, Émile Mercier, Hans Haas, and Annette Rogers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Zbigniew Pietrzykowski ranks 362Before him are Marek Hłasko, Takayuki Kubota, Peter McParland, Yuri Vizbor, Héctor De Bourgoing, and Shyam Benegal. After him are Kurt Armbruster, Shirley Douglas, Shirley Horn, Martín Pando, Barry Humphries, and Kamala Surayya. Among people deceased in 2014, Zbigniew Pietrzykowski ranks 318Before him are Licia Albanese, Stefan Bozhkov, Milan Horvat, Dorothy Tyler-Odam, Takako Doi, and Bobby Keys. After him are Antoine Duhamel, Željko Šturanović, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Lorella De Luca, J. E. Freeman, and Sandro Lopopolo.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Zbigniew Pietrzykowski ranks 983 out of 1,694Before him are Marek Hłasko (1934), Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (1891), Józef Młynarczyk (1953), Ludomir Różycki (1883), Jan Chryzostom Pasek (1636), and Pranas Dovydaitis (1886). After him are Klabund (1890), Arkady Fiedler (1894), Ryszard Szurkowski (1946), Zbigniew Rybczyński (1949), Horst Bienek (1930), and Adam Kozłowiecki (1911).

Among ATHLETES In Poland

Among athletes born in Poland, Zbigniew Pietrzykowski ranks 15Before him are Elżbieta Krzesińska (1934), Gerhard Stöck (1911), Walter Bathe (1892), Teresa Ciepły (1937), Stanisław Kowalski (1910), and Kazimierz Barburski (1942). After him are Waldemar Baszanowski (1935), Halina Górecka (1938), Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak (1929), Danas Pozniakas (1939), Janusz Sidło (1933), and Kazimierz Zimny (1935).