Andrzej Skrzydlewski

Andrzej Skrzydlewski (born November 3, 1946 in Ksawerów near Łódź , † May 28, 2006 ibid) was a Polish wrestler.

Career

Andrzej Skrzydlewski was very strong as a teenager and was brought to wrestle by talent scouts from the PTC Pabianice sports club at the age of 17. He made rapid progress under coach Tadeusz Wnuk. He was therefore delegated to the central sports club “Wisłoce” Dębica , where Tadeusz Popiolek, Janusz Tracewski and Czeslaw Korzeń were his coaches for the next few years. From 1972 he represented the Polish colors in many international competitions. He was an excellent technician, but he was unlucky to have his best years just when in his weight class, the Soviet athletes Nikolai Jakowenko and Nikolai Balboschin, two almost unbeatable exceptional talents wrestled.

Nevertheless, he managed to beat Balboschin at the 1975 World Cup in Minsk and the 1976 European Championships in Leningrad . His "feared opponent" was the Bulgarian Kamen Lozanow Goranow , against whom he could not win a fight. The result of his wrestling effort was the win of five medals, including a bronze medal at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal .

In 1980 Andrzej ended his career as an active wrestler and worked after visiting the coaching academy in Katowice for many years as a coach, including a few years in Gothenburg, Sweden . He died surprisingly in 2006 at the age of 59.

successes

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, S = heavyweight, then up to 100 kg body weight)

• 1972, 2nd place , EM in Katowice , GR, S, with victories over Nahit Taser, Turkey , Manuel Exposito, Spain , Nicolae Martinescu , Romania , Tore Hem, Norway , and Fredi Albrecht , GDR , and one defeat against Nikolai Jakowenko , USSR ;
• 1972, 7th place , OS in Munich , GR, S, with victories over Burke Deadrich, USA , and Lorenz Hecher , FRG , and defeats against Ferenc Kiss , Hungary , and Nikolai Jakowenko;
• 1973, 8th place , EM in Helsinki , GR, S, with defeats against Kamen Lozanow Goranow , Bulgaria , and Nikolai Balboschin , USSR;
• 1973, 3rd place , World Championships in Tehran , GR, S, with victories over Martinescu, James Dushen, USA, and Gürbüz Lü, Turkey , and defeats against Lozanow and Balboschin;
• 1974, 5th place , EM in Madrid , GR, S, with victories against Zdenek Chara, Czechoslovakia , and Martinescu, and defeats against Balboschin and Lozanow;
• 1974, 5th place , World Championships in Katowice, GR, S, with victories over Yasunari Akiyama, Japan , Albrecht and Sven Erik Studsgaard, Denmark , and defeats against Lozanow and Balboschin;
• 1975, 10th place , EM in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , GR, S, with defeats to Martinesu and Albrecht;
• 1975, 3rd place , World Championships in Minsk , GR, S, with victories over Karlo Danji, Yugoslavia , Jozsef Farkas , Hungary , Akiyama and Balboschin and defeats against Martinescu and Lozanow;
• 1976, 5th place , EM in Leningrad , GR, S, with victories over Studsgaard, Balboschin and Refik Memišević , Yugoslavia , and defeats against Tore Hem and Jozsef Farkas ;
• 1976, bronze medal , OS in Montreal , GR, S, with victories over Bahram Moshtagi, Iran , Heinz Schäfer, FRG, and Daniel Vernik, Argentina , and defeats against Brad Rheingans , USA , Lozanow and Balboschin;
• 1977, 3rd place , EM in Bursa , GR, S, with victories over Schäfer and Ibrahim Kumas, Turkey, and defeats against Georgi Petkow, Bulgaria, and Balboschin;
• 1977, 6th place , World Championships in Gothenburg , GR, S, with victories over Per Tönnessen, Norway, and Heikki Stark, Finland , and defeats against Petkow and Balboschin

Polish championships

Andrzej Skrzydlewski became Polish champion (GR, S) in 1969, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975 and 1977.

swell

• DOCUMENTATION of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976
• International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig
• Trade magazine "Der Ringer" numbers 6/7/77 and 11/77

Web links

• Andrzej Skrzydlewski in the database olympics
• Profile of Andrzej Skrzydlewski at the Institute for Applied Training Science