1948 Summer Olympics / Participant (Poland)

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Poland took part in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London with a delegation of 37 athletes (30 men and 7 women) in 28 competitions in five competitions.

Only boxer Aleksy Antkiewicz managed to win a medal with bronze in featherweight, which was also included in the medal table of nations. Zbigniew Turski was named Olympic champion in the orchestral music competition for his “Olympic Symphony” . The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the athlete Mieczysław Łomowski .

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Janusz Kasperczak
• Wawrzyniec Bazarnik
• Aleksy Antkiewicz

  Bronze featherweight

• Zygmunt Chychła
• Antoni Kolczyński
• Franciszek Szymura

fencing

Men

• Bolesław Banaś
• Antoni Sobik
• Teodor Zaczyk
• Jan Nawrocki
• Rajmund Karwicki
• Jerzy Wójcik

Women

• Irena Nawrocka

canoe

• Czesław Sobieraj
• Alfons Jeżewski
• Marian Matłotka

Art competitions

• Eleuter Iwaszkiewicz
• Zbigniew Turski

  Gold orchestral music

• Grażyna Bacewicz
• Stanisław Wiechowicz
• Adam Marczyński
• Andrzej Jurkiewicz
• Henryk Tomaszewski
• Jerzy Januszkiewicz
• Franciszek Strynkiewicz
• Jerzy Bandura
• Helena Bukowska-Szlekys
• Maria Bujakowa
• Franciszek Strynkiewicz
• Jacek Żuławski
• Jan Ślusarczyk

athletics

Men

• Edward Adamczyk
• Witold Gerutto
• Mieczysław Łomowski

Women

• Henryka Słomczewska
• Melania Sinoracka
• Jadwiga Wajs

Web links

Commons : Poland at the 1948 Olympic Games  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Polish Olympic team from 1948 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )