Edmund Jankowski

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Edmund Jankowski (1935)

Edmund Bernard Jankowski (born August 28, 1903 in Wrocki , Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship , † November 1, 1939 in Fordon ) was a Polish rower .

Edmund Jankowski rowed for the rowing company BTW Bydgoszcz . At the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928 , a total of eleven boats took part in four with a helmsman . The Polish four with Franciszek Bronikowski , Edmund Jankowski, Leon Birkholc , Bernard Ormanowski and helmsman Bolesław Drewek won against the Japanese boat, in the second round against the French and in the quarter-finals against the Belgians. In the semi-finals, the Poles were defeated by the Swiss and received the bronze medal behind the Italians and the Swiss.

Jankowski was Polish champion in the four without a helmsman in 1927 and 1929 . At the European Championships in 1929, the Polish four-man without a helmsman with Jerzy Braun , Leon Birkholc, Edmund Jankowski and Franciszek Bronikowski won bronze behind the boats from Italy and the Netherlands.

Jankowski was director of a bicycle factory in the 1930s and participated in the defense of Warsaw after the German invasion of Poland . He was executed by the Gestapo during the mass executions of Polish civilians in the Valley of Death .

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  • Wolf Reinhardt, Ralph Schlueter: The games of the IX. 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam and the II Winter Olympics in St. Moritz . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-89784-411-7 . Pp. 333-335