Henryk Budziński

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Henryk Budziński (left) and Jan Krenz-Mikołajczak 1930

Henryk Budziński (born November 28, 1904 in Brest , † March 18, 1983 in Danzig ) was a Polish rower .

Athletic career

The 1.68 m tall Henryk Budziński from week 04 Poznan rowed in two without a helmsman together with Jan Krenz-Mikołajczak . At the European Championships in Bydgoszcz in 1929, the Italians Romeo Sisti and Nino Bolzoni won in two in front of the two Poles. The following year, the two Poles won the title at the European Championships in Liège in 1930 in front of the boats from Hungary and France. At the European Championships in Paris in 1931 , Budziński and Krenz-Mikołajczak competed together with Zdzisław Kasprzak and Kazimierz Nowakowski in a four without a helmsman and won silver behind the Swiss Gustav Wachtel , Paul Wachtel , Ernst Bühler and Wilhelm Müller .

At the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, there were six boats in two without a helmsman, four of which made it to the finals. Henryk Budziński and Jan Krenz-Mikołajczak won their run ahead of the boats from France and the United States. In the final, the British Lewis Clive and Hugh Edwards won with two seconds ahead of the New Zealanders Cyril Stiles and Frederick Thompson . Six seconds behind the New Zealanders, the Poles won the bronze medal, 0.2 seconds ahead of the Dutch.

Henryk Budziński was first Russian and then German captivity during World War II . He managed to escape and took part in the Warsaw Uprising . After the war he worked for a construction company in Gdansk.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ European championships in two without a helmsman at sport-komplett.de
  2. ↑ European championships in four-man without a helmsman at sport-komplett.de (spelling of the other two Polish rowers as in the Polish-language Wikipedia)
  3. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 . P. 737
personal data
SURNAME Budziński, Henryk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish rower
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Brest
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1983
Place of death Danzig