Marian Sypniewski

Marian Sypniewski medal table
Marian Sypniewski (2012)
fencing
Poland
Olympic games
bronze	Moscow 1980	Foil team
bronze	Barcelona 1992	Foil team
World championships
gold	Hamburg 1978	Foil team
bronze	Vienna 1983	foil
bronze	Essen 1993	Foil team

Marian Sypniewski (born April 30, 1955 in Bydgoszcz ) is a former Polish fencer .

successes

Marian Sypniewski became world champion with the team in Hamburg in 1978 . In 1983 he won bronze in the individual competition in Vienna and also secured bronze with the team in 1993 in Essen . He took part in the Olympic Games three times : at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow he reached the semi-finals with the Polish foil team, in which they had to admit defeat to the Soviet Union 7: 9. Together with Lech Koziejowski , Adam Robak and Bogusław Zych , he received the bronze medal after a subsequent 9-5 win against the GDR team. With the saber team he just missed another medal win in fourth. In 1988 he finished 27th in the individual competition in Seoul , while he was fifth with the foil team. Four years later he was eliminated from the quarter-finals of the individual competition and finished sixth. As in 1980, Sypniewski reached the semi-finals with the foil team, which Cuba won 9: 7. The battle for third place against Hungary was won by the Polish team 9: 4, so that Sypniewski received another bronze medal together with Piotr Kiełpikowski , Adam Krzesiński , Cezary Siess and Ryszard Sobczak . At national level, he was Polish individual champion in 1982, 1986 and 1988, and six times with the team between 1982 and 1989.

After his active career he worked as an international referee for the world association.

Web links

Commons : Marian Sypniewski  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Marian Sypniewski in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Marian Sypniewski at Polski Komitet Olimpijski (Polish)