Krzysztof Beck

Krzysztof Beck (born April 12, 1930 in Kołomyja ; † July 3, 1996 in Bydgoszcz ) was a Polish weightlifter .

Career

As a teenager, Krzysztof Beck mainly did athletics . He was a good sprinter, but he also hit the ball over twelve meters. He attended a business school and later joined the Polish armed forces. In the early 1950s he turned to weightlifting and then moved to Legia Warsaw . His coach there was Józef Styczynski. In 1952 he became the first Polish middleweight champion, with the modest performance of 305 kg, from which it can be seen that Polish weightlifting was at the very beginning.

Beck won medals at two European championships and achieved excellent placements at the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games and at the 1955 and 1957 World Championships.

After his time as an active weightlifter, he was a very successful trainer who did an excellent job in the Bydgoszcz and Warsaw training centers and led many Polish weightlifters to the top of the world.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Wed = Middleweight)

• 1954, 11th place ( 6th place ), WM + EM in Vienna , Wed, with 347.5 kg, winner: Peter George , USA , 405 kg ahead of Fjodor Bogdanowski , USSR , 402.5 kg;
• 1955, 2nd place , World Youth Festival in Warsaw , Wed, with 380 kg, behind Mustafa Jagly-Ogly , USSR, 395 kg;
• 1955, 4th place ( 3rd place ), WM + EM in Munich , Wed, with 372.5 kg, behind Peter George, 405 kg, Bogdanowski, 405 kg and Ingemar Franzen, Sweden , 372.5 kg;
• 1956, 3rd place , Grand Prix of the USSR in Moscow , Wed, with 372.5 kg, behind Bogdanowski, 415 kg and Jagli-Ogli, 382.5 kg;
• 1956, 2nd place , EM in Helsinki , Wed, with 375 kg, behind Igor Rybak , USSR, 382.5 kg and in front of Jan Bochenek , Poland , 362.5 kg;
• 1956, 6th place , OS in Melbourne , Wed, with 380 kg, winner: Bogdanowski, 420 kg in front of Peter George, 412.5 kg;
• 1957, 4th place , Grand Prix of the USSR in Moscow, Wed, with 377.5 kg, behind Viktor Ljach , USSR, 397.5 kg, Marcel Paterni , France , 382.5 kg and el Touni, Egypt , 377.5 kg;
• 1957, 4th place , World Championships in Tehran , Wed, with 390 kg, behind Thomas Kono , USA, 420 kg, Bogdanowski, 420 kg and Jan Bochenek, 395 kg;
• 1958, 2nd place , military Spartakiade in Leipzig , Wed, with 385 kg, behind Bogdanowski, 412.5 kg and in front of Bochenek, 370 kg;
• 1960, 5th place , OS in Rome , Wed, with 400 kg, behind Alexander Kurynow , USSR, 437.5 kg, Kono, 427.5 kg, Győző Veres , Hungary , 405 kg and Paterni, 400 kg
• 1961, 7th place , EM in Vienna , Wed, with 377.5 kg;

Polish championships

• 1952, 1st place, Wed, with 305 kg, ahead of Jan Bochenek , 300 kg and Edmond Copa, 285 kg;
• 1953, 1st place, Wed, with 332.5 kg, ahead of Copa, 315 kg and Czekalinski, 282.5 kg;
• 1954, 1st place, Wed, with 352.5 kg, ahead of Wojcik, 315 kg and Gilarski, 302.5 kg;
• 1955, 1st place, Wed, with 340 kg, ahead of Czekalinski, 325 kg and Jan Michalak, 310 kg;
• 1956, 1st place, Wed, with 372.5 kg, ahead of Czekalinski, 350 kg and Wojcik, 315 kg;
• 1957, 1st place, Wed, with 385 kg, ahead of Kostrzewski, 345 kg and Michalak, 340 kg;
• 1960, 2nd place, with 370 kg, behind Copa, 377.5 kg and in front of Michalak, 355 kg

Web links

• Krzysztof Beck in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )