Mieczysław Nowak

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Mieczysław Nowak (right) at the 1964 Olympic Games

Mieczysław Nowak (born December 22, 1936 in Chomęcice , † May 17, 2006 in Nowy Dwór Gdański ) was a Polish weightlifter.

Career

As a young man, Nowak practiced various sports, especially boxing . He was only 1.60 m tall and weighed only about 60 kg as an adult. As a weightlifter, he belonged to the clubs LZS Wołów, Śląsk Wrocław and Floty Gdynia (1955 to 1972). The first systematic training in weightlifting began in Gdansk with trainer Aleksander Machowski. Later, in the national team, August Dziedzic and Klemens Roguski were responsible for him. Nowak started at three Olympic Games and won a bronze medal in the featherweight division in Tokyo in 1964 . He was three times European champion in the Olympic triathlon. However, his world championship title at the 1970 World Championships was revoked because of doping . Unfortunately for him, the Japanese Yoshinobu Miyake started in his weight class in the first years of his international career , which was unbeatable at the time. Nowak won the Polish championship four times, taking into account that at his time he had extremely strong competition in his weight class in Poland. Jan Wojnowski , Rudolf Kozłowski , Henryk Trebicki , Kazimierz Czarnecki and Szymon Czyż were all world class weightlifters as well.

After finishing his playing days he became a coach in Gdansk.

International successes / all-around

year space competition Art Weight class Result
1964 bronze OS in Tokyo OD feather with 377.5 kg, behind Yoshinobu Miyake , Japan , 397.5 kg and Isaac Berger , USA , 382.5 kg
1965 1. EM in Sofia OD feather with 365 kg, ahead of Rudolf Kozłowski , Poland , 357.5 kg and Petkov, Bulgaria , 340 kg
1965 2. World Cup in Tehran OD feather with 375 kg, behind Yoshinobu Miyake, 385 kg and in front of Kozlowski, 360 kg
1966 2. WM + EM (1st place) in East Berlin OD feather with 382.5 kg, behind Yoshinobu Miyake, 387.5 kg and in front of Yoshiyuki Miyake , 370 kg
1968 1. EM in Leningrad OD feather with 380 kg, before Dito Schanidze , USSR , 367.5 kg and Kozłowski, 360 kg
1968 5. OS in Mexico City OD feather with 375 kg, behind Yoshinobu Miyake, 392.5 kg, Dito Schanidze, 387.5 kg, Yoshiyuki Miyake, 385 kg and Jan Wojnowski , Poland, 382.5 kg
1969 3. USSR Grand Prix in Kiev OD feather with 357.5 kg, behind Dito Schanidze, 385 kg and Karimow, USSR, 375 kg
1969 5. WM + EM (4th place) in Warsaw OD feather with 372.5 kg, behind Yoshiyuki Miyake, 385 kg, Mladen Kutschew , Bulgaria, 385 kg, Shanidze, 380 kg and Janos Benedek , Hungary , 380 kg
1970 2. EM in Szombathely OD Bantam with 362.5 kg, behind Imre Földi , Hungary, 372.5 kg and in front of Walter Szołtysek , Poland, 352.5 kg
1971 unpl. World Cup in Lima OD feather after three failed attempts to press
1972 3. EM in Constanța OD feather with 375 kg, behind Dito Schanidze, 395 kg and Norair Nurikjan , Bulgaria, 387.5 kg
1972 7th OS in Munich OD feather with 375 kg, winner: Norair Nurikjan, 402.5 kg before Dito Schanidze, 400 kg

Medals individual disciplines

(awarded since 1969)

  • EM gold medals: 1970, tear, ba - 1970, push, ba
  • European Championship bronze medals: 1969, Push, Fe - 1972, Push, Fe

Polish championships

  • 1960, 3rd place, Ba, with 260 kg,
  • 1961, 3rd place, Ba, with 267.5 kg,
  • 1962, 2nd place, Ba, with 292.5 kg,
  • 1963, 2nd place, Fe, with 335 kg,
  • 1964, 2nd place, Fe, with 357.5 kg,
  • 1965, 1st place, Fe, with 370 kg,
  • 1966, 1st place, Fe, with 367.5 kg,
  • 1967, 1st place, Fe, with 377.5 kg,
  • 1970, 1st place, Fe, with 375 kg,
  • 1972, 2nd place, Fe, with 377.5 kg,

Polish records

Nowak set a total of 13 Polish records in his career.

Remarks

  • Type = type of competition
  • OD = Olympic three-way fight, consisting of pushing, tearing and pushing,
  • OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship,
  • Bantam weight, then up to 56 kg body weight,
  • Featherweight, at that time up to 60 kg body weight,
  • The competitions at the Olympic Games were also considered world championships

swell

  • Athletics magazine
  • Polish National Olympic Committee website,
  • Website "www.chidlovski.net",
  • Website "www.sports-reference.com"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Drug-Related Disqualifications in Men's Weightlifting at Summer Olympics chidlovski.net
personal data
SURNAME Nowak, Mieczysław
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish weightlifter
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Chomęcice
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 2006
Place of death Nowy Dwór Gdański