Jan Krenz-Mikołajczak

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Henryk Budziński (left) and Jan Krenz-Mikołajczak 1930

Janusz "Jan" Stanisław Krenz-Mikołajczak (born March 30, 1907 in Posen , † December 15, 2002 ibid) was a Polish rower .

Athletic career

The 1.72 m tall Jan Krenz-Mikołajczak from AZS Posen rowed in two without a helmsman together with Henryk Budziński . 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.

Jan Krenz-Mikołajczak was a civil engineer. During the Second World War he was used by the Germans to build a fortress in Smolensk, and after the advance of the Red Army he was in a labor camp near Leningrad. After his release he took part in the reconstruction of Polish cities from 1946.

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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 Krenz-Mikołajczak, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krenz-Mikołajczak, Janusz Stanisław (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish rower
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 2002
Place of death Poses