Józef Zapędzki

Józef Zapędzki.

Józef Zapędzki (born March 11, 1929 in Kazimierówka , Silesia) is a former Polish marksman and two-time Olympic champion with the rapid-fire pistol .

Zapędzki's father was murdered in the Dachau concentration camp shortly before the end of the Second World War. At the age of 16, he had joined the Second Polish Army . From 1947 he attended the officers' school, and it was only in 1957 that he started shooting seriously.

Zapędzki, who competed for the Śląsk Wrocław sports club , was successful in almost all pistol disciplines during his career, at the Olympic Games he competed five times with the rapid-fire pistol. In 1964 in Tokyo he finished 15th, in 1968 in Mexico City and 1972 in Munich he received the gold medal, at the 1976 Olympic Games he came in 45th and in 1980 in Moscow he reached 14th place. In 1965 he won the European championship with the sport pistol, the following year he was second in the world championship with the rapid-fire pistol behind the Romanian Virgil Atanasiu . In the 1970s, Zapędzki was successful with the air pistol: At the European Championships in 1972 he won bronze in the individual competition, in 1973 and 1975 he won bronze with the team.

Web links

• Józef Zapędzki in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 , p. 180, note 252, and p. 405, note 364.
2. ↑ European Central Fire Pistol Championships ( Memento from November 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ World Championships with the rapid fire pistol ( Memento from February 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ European Championships air pistol