Leszek Błażyński

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Leszek Błażyński (born March 5, 1949 in Ełk , † August 6, 1992 in Katowice ) was a Polish boxer . He was the European flyweight amateur boxer champion in 1977 and won bronze medals in the same weight class at the 1972 and 1976 Olympic Games .

Career

Leszek Błażyński completed an apprenticeship as a mechanic in Ełk and began boxing as a teenager at the Mazur Ełk Sports Club . He first appeared in 1967 when he fought his way to the quarter-finals at the Polish senior championship as an 18-year-old in the light flyweight division and only then lost to Marian Trelinski. Leszek Błażyński was very light at a height of 1.65 meters and boxed during his entire career in light flyweight or flyweight (up to 48 kg or 51 kg body weight). After his time at Mazur Ełk, he later boxed at BBTS Wlokniarz Bielska-Biela and Szombierek Bytom .

At the Polish championship in 1968 he was eliminated again in the quarterfinals when he lost to Roman Rozek on points. A year later he was Polish runner-up in the light flyweight division. He lost the final fight against Roman Rożek on points. In 1970 he was absent from the Polish championships due to injury.

1971 Leszek Błażyński was then for the first time Polish flyweight champion by defeating Hubert Skrzypczak . In the same year he then represented Poland at the European Amateur Championship in Madrid . He fought his way into the final with three impressive victories over Zlatko Milosovljevic from Yugoslavia , Viktor Zaporoschets from the Soviet Union and Constantin Gruiescu from Romania , in which he was defeated by local Juan Francisco Rodriguez on points (1: 4 judges' votes). In 1971 he made his first start in the Polish national relay in Sosnowiec in an international match against the USA . He lost it in the flyweight against Gregory Lewis on points. He remained victorious in eleven of the following twelve international matches.

In 1972 Leszek Błażyński was defeated in the Polish flyweight championship against Stanislaw Lechowski, but was still nominated for the Olympic Games that year in Munich . In Munich he fought his way to the semi-finals with three wins, where he was defeated by the Bulgarian Georgi Kostadinow on points and won a bronze medal. Kostadinov then also became Olympic champion .

1973 Leszek Błażyński won his second Polish flyweight championship with a victory over Leszek Borkowski. At the subsequent European Championship in Belgrade, he knocked out Welshman Maurice O'Sullivan in his first fight in the first round, but lost his next fight in the quarter-finals against Nikolai Lodin from the Soviet Union and came in fifth.

In 1974 and 1975, Leszek Błażyński had health problems and only fought a few minor fights. In 1976, however, he celebrated a successful comeback. Although he lost in the Polish flyweight championship this year in the semifinals against Ryszard Czerwinski, but then qualified for a start at the Olympic Games in Montreal . In Montreal he won over Antonio Filho from Brazil , Fazlija Šaćirović from Yugoslavia and Alfredo Perez from Venezuela . In the semifinals, however, as four years ago, he was again the final destination, because he lost here on points against Leo Randolph from the USA (1: 4 judges' votes). This again won a bronze medal .

In 1977 Leszek Błażyński proved again that he is a great boxer, because he became European flyweight champion in Halle an der Saale . It was enough for him to win over Joao Miguel from Portugal , Nuri Eroglu from Turkey and Tkachenko from the Soviet Union , against whom he narrowly but deservedly won with 3-2 judges' votes.

In 1978 he lost at the Polish championship in the semi-finals against Henryk Średnicki . He was then used at the World Championships in Belgrade in bantamweight, because Srednicki started in flyweight. In this weight class he did not feel well and was already defeated in his first fight against Fazlija Šaćirović , with which he missed the last sixteen and ultimately only finished 17th. At the 2nd Feliks Stamm tournament in Warsaw he met Henryk Srednicki again in the final of the flyweight division at the end of 1978, but lost this fight again on points.

After that, Leszek Błażyński's career came to an end. Although he started again at the Polish championship in 1980 and lost in the final of the flyweight against Ryszard Czerwinski on points. But he was no longer nominated for the Olympic Games in Moscow that year.

He declared his final retirement from boxing in 1983. He has contested a total of 317 fights in his career, of which he won 282. He boxed four times and lost 31 fights.

Leszek Błażyński committed suicide in Katowice on August 6, 1992.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Hfl = light flyweight, Fl = flyweight, Ba = bantam weight, up to 48 kg, 51 kg and 54 kg body weight)

  • 1969, 2nd place , TSC tournament in Berlin (East), Hfl, after a knockout loss in the 1st round in the final against Aurel Mihei, Romania ;
  • 1971, 1st place , tournament in Leipzig , Hfl, with final victory over Petre Ganea, Romania;
  • 1972, 1st place , tournament for the black diamond in Kattowitz , Fl, with points victory in the final over Peter Glück, Hungary ;
  • 1973, 5th place , EM in Belgrade , Fl, with a knockout victory in the 1st round over Maurice O'Sullivan, Wales and a point defeat against Nikolai Lodin , USSR;
  • 1974, 1st place , 4th Dutch Tulips-Tuornament in Amsterdam , Fl, with a knockout win 1st round in the final over Chris Ius, Canada ;
  • 1976, 3rd place , 6th Gryf Sczecinski tournament in Stettin , Fl, after losing points in the semifinals against Jan Gorny, Poland;
  • 1977, 3rd place , TSC tournament in Berlin (East), Fl, after losing points in the semifinals against Jerome Coffee, USA;
  • 1978, 17th place , World Cup in Belgrade , Ba, after losing points to Fazlija Sacirovic;
  • 1978, 2nd place , 2nd Feliks Stamm tournament in Warsaw , Fl, after losing points in the final against Henryk Średnicki , Poland

Polish championships

  • 1967, 5th place, Hfl, after losing points in the quarterfinals against Marian Trelinski,
  • 1968, 5th place, Hfl, after losing points in the quarter-finals against Roman Rozek,
  • 1969, 2nd place, Hfl, after losing points in the final against Roman Rozek,
  • 1971, 1st place, Fl, after winning points in the final over Hubert Skrzypczak ,
  • 1972, 2nd place, Fl, after losing points in the final against Stanislaw Lechowski,
  • 1973, 1st place, Fl, after winning points in the final over Lezek Borkowski,
  • 1976, 3rd place, Fl, after losing points in the semifinals against Ryszard Czerwinski,
  • 1978, 3rd place, Fl, after losing points in the semifinals against Henryk Średnicki ,
  • 1980, 2nd place, Fl, after losing points in the final against Ryszard Czerwinski

International battles

  • 1968 in Lodz , Poland against USSR (juniors), Hfl, point winner over Sergej Unisichin,
  • 1968 in Sosnowiec , Poland against Italy (juniors), Hfl, points winner over Gaetano Curcetti,
  • 1969 in Piombino , Italy against Poland (juniors), Hfl, points winner over Gaetano Curcetti,
  • 1971 in Sosnowiec, Poland against USA , Fl, point defeat against Gregory Lewis,
  • 1971 in Glasgow , Scotland against Poland, Fl, points winner over Tommy Cunningham,
  • 1971 in Dublin , Ireland against Poland, Fl, points winner over Neil McLaughlin,
  • 1971 in Warsaw , Poland against England , Fl, point defeat against Patrick Cowdell ,
  • 1971 in Opole , Poland against Romania , Fl, points winner over Constantin Gruiescu ,
  • 1972 in Mielec , Poland against GDR , Fl, winner without a fight over Klaus Gertenbach ,
  • 1973 in Münster , FRG against Poland, Fl, demolition winner 2nd round over Wolfgang Penzler ,
  • 1973 in West Paterson , USA against Poland, Fl, techn. KO winner 1st round over Derrick Holmes,
  • 1973 in Elizabeth, USA against Poland, Fl, KO winner 1st round over James Levingstone,
  • 1973 in Chicago , USA against Poland, Fl, techn. KO winner 1st round over Frank Smith,
  • 1973 in Berlin (East), GDR against Poland, Fl, techn, knockout winner 3rd round over Jürgen Bonke,
  • 1974 in Lodz, Poland against Yugoslavia , Fl, techn, KO winner 3rd round over Dragan Petrovic

swell

  • Box Sport magazine ,
  • Website "www.sport-komplett.de",
  • Website "www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl",
  • Website "pl.wikipedia.org"
personal data
SURNAME Błażyński, Leszek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish boxer
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Ełk , Mazury
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1992
Place of death Katowice