Jan Czepułkowski

Jan Czepułkowski (born July 17, 1930 in Mołodeczno , † January 26, 2016 in Warsaw ) was a Polish weightlifter.

Career

Czepułkowski grew up in an area that belonged to Poland until 1939 and was then annexed by the USSR . After 1945 he moved to Olsztyn . There he started weightlifting in 1951. He later went to Warsaw and developed into a Polish top lifter under coach August Dziedzic. His most successful year was 1957, when he became vice European champion and third in the world championship in lightweight (then up to 67.5 kg body weight). Towards the end of the 1950s, he was replaced in his weight class, the lightweight, by the world-class lifters Marian Zieliński and Waldemar Baszanowski . He then ended his career as an active weightlifter in 1960. After studying sports, he became a lecturer at the trainer academy in Warsaw.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Le = lightweight, Wed = middleweight)

• 1954, 14th place ( 12th place ), WM + EM in Vienna , Le, with 310 kg, winner: Dmitri Iwanow , USSR , 367.5 kg ahead of Said Gouda , Egypt , 355 kg;
• 1955 8th place ( 5th place ), WM + EM in Munich , Le, with 337.5 kg, winner: Nikolai Kostylew , USSR, 382.5 kg ahead of Gouda, 365 kg;
• 1956, 4th place , Grand Prix of the USSR in Moscow , Le, with 345 kg, behind Igor Rybak , 372.5 kg, Rawil Chabutdinow , USSR, 357.5 kg and Alexander Falamejew , USSR, 370 kg;
• 1956, 5th place , EM in Helsinki , Le, with 340 kg, behind Kostylew, 377.5 kg, Josef Tauchner , Austria , 357.5 kg, Luciano de Genova, Italy , 347.5 kg and Roland Lortz , Germany , 345 kg;
• 1956, 1st place , tournament in Prague , Le, with 350 kg, ahead of Zdeněk Otahal , CSSR , 312.5 kg and Popilka, CSSR, 310 kg;
• 1956, 6th place , OS in Melbourne , Le, with 360 kg, winner: Rybak, 380 kg ahead of Schabutinow, 372.5 kg;
• 1957, 4th place , Grand Prix of the USSR in Moscow, Le, with 352.5 kg, behind Viktor Buschujew , USSR, 385 kg, Huan Tschan Ju, China , 367.5 kg and Ivan Abadschiev , Bulgaria , 355 kg;
• 1957, 2nd place , EM in Katowice , Le, with 352.5 kg, behind Schabutinow, 375 kg and in front of Marian Zieliński , Poland , 347.5 kg;
• 1957, 3rd place , World Championships in Tehran , Le, with 365 kg, behind Buschujew, 380 kg and Abajiev, 372.5 kg;
• 1958, unplaced, WM + EM in Stockholm , Le, with 3 failed attempts in pushing;
• 1959, 4th place ( 3rd place ), WM + EM in Warsaw , Le, with 360 kg, behind Buschujew, 385 kg, Hakob Faradschjan , USSR, 370 kg and Abdulwahid Aziz, Iraq , 362.5 kg

Polish championships

• 1953, 2nd place, Le, with 237.5 kg, behind J. Fus, 290 kg and in front of B. Wojcik, 235 kg;
• 1954, 1st place, Le, with 325 kg, ahead of Czekaliński, 312.5 kg and B. Stawicki, 300 kg;
• 1955, 1st place, Le, with 325 kg, before August Dziedzic, 312.5 kg and Stawicki, 310 kg;
• 1956, 2nd place, Le, with 332.5 kg behind Dziedzic, 332.5 kg and in front of Stawicki, 315 kg;
• 1958, 1st place, Wed, with 355 kg, ahead of M. Kostrzewski, 325 kg and K. Stalmach, 322.5 kg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary on wyborcza.pl , accessed on February 14, 2017