Norbert Ozimek

Olympic Games Munich 1972, Constantine II of Greece hands over the medals

Award ceremony, Norbert Ozimek with silver medal

Norbert Wojciech Ozimek (born January 24, 1945 in Warsaw ) is a former Polish weightlifter.

Career

Norbert Ozimek grew up in Warsaw and started athletics as a teenager . In 1960 he set a Polish youth record in his age group in the long jump with 6.30 m. When, after the Olympic Games in 1960, the well-known trainer August Dziedzic called on young people to come to weightlifting, he got in touch and began to train with weights at the University of Physical Education in Warsaw. Under August Dziedzic he developed very quickly. In 1962 he, meanwhile a member of Legia Warsaw , was already Polish junior champion in the middleweight division with 320 kg in the three-way fight and in 1963 in the light heavyweight division with 370 kg. In 1964 he already increased to 440 kg, but was not taken to the Olympic Games in Tokyo . But in 1965 he made his first international assignment and in the same year he became world champion in Tehran . Until 1973 he was always among the best in the world and won two Olympic medals.

Norbert Ozimek completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith, studied engineering at a polytechnic in Warsaw and also trained as a trainer. He is still working as a weightlifting trainer in a Warsaw club.

International successes / all-around

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Ls = light heavyweight, competitions up to 1972 in the Olympic three-way fight, consisting of pushing, tearing and pushing, from 1973 onwards in a duel consisting of tearing and pushing)

year	space	competition	Weight class
1965	3.	EM in Sofia	Slightly difficult	with 445 kg, behind Alexander Kidjajew , USSR , 467.5 kg, Hans Zdražila , CSSR, 460 kg and in front of Géza Tóth , Hungary , 435 kg
1965	1.	World Cup in Tehran	Slightly difficult	with 472.5 kg, ahead of Kidjajew, 460 kg and Jerzy Kaczkowski , Poland, 445 kg
1966	2.	Baltic Cup	Slightly difficult	with 455 kg, behind Vladimir Belyayev , USSR, 455 kg u. in front of Karl Arnold (weightlifter) , GDR , 450 kg
1966	5.	WM + EM in Berlin	Slightly difficult	with 455 kg, behind Wladimir Beljajew, 485 kg, Győző Veres , Hungary , 485 kg, Hans Zdražila, 465 kg and Karl Arnold, 460 kg
1968	2.	EM in Leningrad	Slightly difficult	with 470 kg, behind Boris Selitski , USSR, 472.5 kg and in front of Karl Arnold, 465 kg
1968	bronze	OS in Mexico City	Slightly difficult	with 472.5 kg, behind Boris Selitzki, 485 kg and Wladimir Belyayev, 485 kg
1969	4th	WM + EM (3rd) in Sofia	Slightly difficult	with 475 kg, behind Masushi Ōuchi , Japan , 487.5 kg, Károly Bakos, Hungary, 487.5 kg and Boris Selitski, 482.5 kg
1970	1.	Tehran Grand Prix	Slightly difficult	with 465 kg, ahead of Vladimir Belyayev, 460 kg and Pourdebzhan, Iran , 440 kg
1970	2.	World Cup in Columbus / USA	Slightly difficult	with 482.5 kg, behind Gennady Ivanchenko , USSR, 505 kg and in front of David Rigert , USSR, 482.5 kg
1972	4th	EM in Constanța	Slightly difficult	with 485 kg, behind Boris Pawlow , USSR, 512.5 kg, Leif Jensen , Norway , 505 kg and Kaarlo Kangasniemi , Finland , 495 kg
1972	silver	OS in Munich	Slightly difficult	with 497.5 kg, behind Leif Jensen , 507.5 kg and in front of György Horváth, Hungary, 495 kg
1973	2.	Paris Grand Prix	Medium difficulty	with 327.5 kg, behind Andon Nikolow , Bulgaria , 345 kg and in front of Pierre Gourrier, France, 322.5 kg
1973	7th	World Cup in Havana	Medium difficulty	with 342.5 kg, winner: David Rigert , USSR, 365 kg, ahead of Vasily Kolotow , USSR, 360 kg

Medals individual disciplines

(awarded since 1969)

• World Cup silver medals: 1969 in tearing - 1970 in pushing - 1972 in pushing
• European Championship gold medals: 1969 in the tear - 1970 in the tear
• EM bronze medals: 1970 in pushing - 1972 in pushing

Polish championships

• 1964, 2nd place, Ls, with 435 kg,
• 1965, 2nd place, Ls, with 437.5 kg,
• 1966, 1st place, Ls, with 462.5 kg,
• 1967, 1st place, Ls, with 465 kg,
• 1968, 1st place, Ls, with 470 kg,
• 1969, 1st place, Ls, with 470 kg,
• 1971, 1st place, Ls, with 465 kg,
• 1973, 2nd place, Ms, with 320 kg,
• 1974, 2nd place, Ms, with 345 kg,

World records

(in the light heavyweight, up to 82.5 kg body weight, achieved)

in two-armed tearing:

• 148 kg, 1965 in Tehran,
• 149 kg, 1967 in Esaki

swell

• Trade journal athletics,
• Website "www.chidlovski.net"

Web link

• Portrait of Norbert Ozimek