Jerzy Ustupski

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Roger Verey (left) and Jerzy Ustupski during training in 1936

Jerzy Ustupski (born April 1, 1911 in Zakopane ; † October 25, 2004 there ) was a Polish rower .

Athletic career

The 1.80 m tall Jerzy Ustupski from AZS Krakau rowed in a double scull with Roger Verey . At the European Championships in Belgrade in 1932, Hungarians Pál Boday and István Kauser won the double scull ahead of the Italians Livio Curto and Ettore Broschi , followed by Verey and Ustupski who won the bronze medal. Three years later, the two Poles won the 1935 European Championships in Berlin ahead of the Germans Ralf Ritter and Hubert Remagen and the French André Giriat and Robert Jacquet .

At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, twelve double sculls competed. In the preliminary run Giriat and Jacquet won ahead of the Poles, in the other preliminary run the Germans Willi Kaidel and Joachim Pirsch won ahead of the British Jack Beresford and Leslie Southwood . The Germans and the French were already qualified for the final, and the first two boats each came out of the semifinals. In the first semi-final, the boat from Australia won ahead of Verey and Ustupski. In the final, the British won five seconds ahead of the Germans, ten seconds behind the Germans the two Poles crossed the finish line in third place, six seconds ahead of the fourth-placed French.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ European championships in double sculls at sport-komplett.de
  2. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 . P. 856
personal data
SURNAME Ustupski, Jerzy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish rower
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Zakopane
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 2004
Place of death Zakopane