1976 Summer Olympics / Participant (Poland)

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Poland took part in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal with a delegation of 207 athletes (180 men and 27 women) in 116 competitions in 18 sports.

The Polish athletes won 7 gold, 6 silver and 13 bronze medals, with which Poland took the second place in the medal table. Olympic champion volleyball team of men, the boxer was Jerzy Rybicki in the light middleweight, the modern pentathlete Janusz Pyciak-Peciak in singles, the wrestler Kazimierz Lipień featherweight of the Greco-Roman style and the athletes Jacek Wszoła in the high jump, Tadeusz Ślusarski in the pole vault and Irena Szewińska over 400 meters. The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the canoeist Grzegorz Śledziewski .

Participants by sport

Archery

Men

• Jan Popowicz

  Individual: 17th place

• Wojciech Szymańczyk

  Individual: 22nd place

Women

• Jadwiga Szosler-Wilejto

  Individual: 6th place

• Irena Szydłowska

  Individual: 20th place

Boxing

• Henryk Średnicki

  Light flyweight: eliminated in the round of 16

• Leszek Błażyński

  Flyweight: bronze

• Leszek Borkowski

  Bantamweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Leszek Kosedowski

  Featherweight: bronze

• Bogdan Gajda

  Lightweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

• Kazimierz Szczerba

  Light welterweight: bronze

• Zbigniew Kicka

  Welterweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Jerzy Rybicki

  Light middleweight: gold

• Ryszard Pasiewicz

  Middleweight: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Janusz Gortat

  Light Heavyweight: Bronze

• Andrzej Biegalski

  Heavyweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

fencing

Men

• Marek Dąbrowski

  Foil: 9th place

  Foil team: 5th place

• Lech Koziejowski

  Foil: 21st place

  Foil team: 5th place

• Ziemowit Wojciechowski

  Foil: 24th place

  Foil team: 5th place

• Leszek Martewicz

  Foil team: 5th place

• Arkadiusz Godel

  Foil team: 5th place

• Jerzy Janikowski

  Epee: 5th place

  Epee team: 11th place

• Zbigniew Matwiejew

  Epee: 30th place

  Epee team: 11th place

• Leszek Swornowski

  Epee: 40th place

  Epee team: 11th place

• Marceli Wiech

  Epee team: 11th place

• Jacek Bierkowski

  Saber: 9th place

  Saber team: 6th place

• Józef Nowara

  Saber: 13th place

  Saber team: 6th place

• Leszek Jabłonowski

  Saber: 23rd place

  Saber team: 6th place

• Sylwester Królikowski

  Saber team: 6th place

Women

• Grażyna Staszak-Makowska

  Foil: 13th place

  Foil team: 6th place

• Barbara Wysoczańska

  Foil: 20th place

  Foil team: 6th place

• Krystyna Machnicka-Urbańska

  Foil: 35th place

  Foil team: 6th place

• Jolanta Bebel-Rzymowska

  Foil team: 6th place

• Kamilla Składanowska

  Foil team: 6th place

Soccer

• silver

  Jan Benigier

  Lesław Ćmikiewicz

  Kazimierz Deyna

  Jerzy Gorgoń

  Henryk Kasperczak

  Kazimierz Kmiecik

  Grzegorz Lato

  Zygmunt Maszczyk

  Piotr Mowlik

  Roman Ogaza

  Wojciech Rudy

  Andrzej Szarmach

  Antoni Szymanowski

  Jan Tomaszewski

  Henryk Wawrowski

  Henryk Wieczorek

  Wladyslaw Żmuda

Weightlifting

• Stefan Leletko

  Flyweight: 6th place

• Zygmunt Smalcerz

  Flyweight: competition not finished

• Grzegorz Cziura

  Bantam weight: silver

• Leszek Skorupa

  Bantamweight: 4th place

• Antoni Pawlak

  Featherweight: competition not over

• Jan Łostowski

  Featherweight: competition not over

• Kazimierz Czarnecki

  Lightweight: bronze

• Zbigniew Kaczmarek

  Lightweight: competition not over

• Tadeusz Rutkowski

  Heavyweight: bronze

Handball

Men

• bronze

  Zdzisław Antczak

  Janusz Brzozowski

  Piotr Cieśla

  Jan Gmyrek

  Alfred Kałuziński

  Jerzy Klempel

  Zygfryd Kuchta

  Jerzy Melcer

  Ryszard Przybysz

  Henryk Rozmiarek

  Andrzej Sokołowski

  Andrzej Szymczak

  Mieczysław Wojczak

  Włodzimierz Zieliński

Judo

• Marian Standowicz

  Lightweight: 5th place

• Marian Tałaj

  Light middleweight: bronze

• Adam Adamczyk

  Middleweight: 13th place

• Antoni Reiter

  Light heavyweight: 12th place

• Waldemar Zausz

  Heavyweight: 17th place

  Open class: 16th place

canoe

Men

• Grzegorz Śledziewski

  Single kayak 500 m: 6th place

  Single kayak 1000 m: 8th place

  Two-person kayak 500 m: eliminated in the semifinals

• Ryszard Oborski

  Two-person kayak 500 m: eliminated in the semifinals

  Quad kayak 1000 m: 5th place

• Ryszard Tylewski

  Two-person kayak 1000 m: eliminated in the semifinals

• Daniel Wełna

  Two-person kayak 1000 m: eliminated in the semifinals

• Henryk Budzicz

  Quad kayak 1000 m: 5th place

• Kazimierz Górecki

  Quad kayak 1000 m: 5th place

• Grzegorz Kołtan

  Quad kayak 1000 m: 5th place

• Ryszard Kosiński

  Single Canadier 500 m: eliminated in the semifinals

• Jerzy Opara

  Two-man canoe 500 m: silver

  Two-man canoe 1000 m: 4th place

• Andrzej Gronowicz

  Two-man canoe 500 m: silver

  Two-man canoe 1000 m: 4th place

Women

• Ewa Kamińska-Eichler

  Single kayak 500 m: 4th place

• Maria Kazanecka-Górecka

  Two-person kayak 500 m: 6th place

• Katarzyna Kulczak

  Two-person kayak 500 m: 6th place

athletics

Men

• Marian Voronin

  100 m: eliminated in the semi-finals

  200 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter relay: 4th place

• Andrzej Świerczyński

  100 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  4 x 100 meter relay: 4th place

• Zenon Licznerski

  100 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  4 x 100 meter relay: 4th place

• Bogdan Grzejszczak

  200 m: 6th place

  4 x 100 meter relay: 4th place

• Zenon Nowosz

  200 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Jan Werner

  400 m: 8th place

  4 x 400 meter relay: silver

• Jerzy Pietrzyk

  400 m: eliminated in the semi-finals

  4 x 400 meter relay: silver

• Zbigniew Jaremski

  400 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  4 x 400 meter relay: silver

• Marian Gęsicki

  800 m: eliminated in the semi-finals

• Bronislaw Malinowski

  1500 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  3000 m obstacle: silver

• Kazimierz Orzeł

  Marathon: 15th place

• Jerzy Gros

  Marathon: 47th place

• Jerzy Hewelt

  400 m hurdles: eliminated in the semifinals

• Ryszard Podlas

  4 x 400 meter relay: silver

• Jan Ornoch

  20 km walking: 17th place

• Boguslaw Duda

  20 km walking: 21st place

• Jacek Wszoła

  High jump: gold

• Tadeusz Ślusarski

  Pole vault: gold

• Wojciech Buciarski

  Pole vault: 5th place

• Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz

  Pole vault: 11th place

• Grzegorz Cybulski

  Long jump: 13th place

• Eugeniusz Biskupski

  Triple jump: 7th place

• Michał Joachimowski

  Triple jump: 13th place

• Andrzej Sunday

  Triple jump: 20th place

• Stanisław Wołodko

  Discus throw: 18th place

• Piotr Bielczyk

  Javelin throw: 4th place

• Ryszard Skowronek

  Decathlon: 5th place

• Ryszard Katus

  Decathlon: 12th place

Women

• Irena Szewińska

  400 m: gold

• Grażyna Rabsztyn

  100 m hurdles: 5th place

• Bożena Nowakowska

  100 m hurdles: eliminated in the semifinals

• Danuta Rosani

  Discus throw: without valid attempt

Modern pentathlon

• Janusz Pyciak-Peciak

  Single: gold

  Team: 4th place

• Zbigniew Pacelt

  Individual: 19th place

  Team: 4th place

• Krzysztof Trybusiewicz

  Singles: 34th place

  Team: 4th place

Cycling

• Mieczysław Nowicki

  Road race: bronze

  Team time trial: silver

• Stanislaw Szozda

  Road race: 11th place

  Team time trial: silver

• Ryszard Jan Szurkowski

  Road race: 12th place

  Team time trial: silver

• Jan Brzeźny

  Road race: 30th place

• Tadeusz Mytnik

  Team time trial: silver

• Benedykt Kocot

  Track sprint: eliminated in the 4th round

• Janusz Kierzkowski

  Track 1000 m time trial: 4th place

• Jan Jankiewicz

  Track 4000 m single pursuit: 10th place

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: 5th place

• Czeslaw Lang

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: 5th place

• Krzysztof Sujka

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: 5th place

• Zbigniew Szczepkowski

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: 5th place

Wrestling

• Aleksander Zajączkowski

  Paper weight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Czeslaw Stanjek

  Flyweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Józef Lipień

  Bantamweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 4th round

• Kazimierz Lipień

  Featherweight, Greco-Roman: gold

• Andrzej Supron

  Lightweight, Greco-Roman: 5th place

• Stanisław Krzesiński

  Welterweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 3rd round

• Adam Ostrowski

  Middleweight, Greco-Roman: 8th place

• Czesław Kwieciński

  Light Heavyweight, Greco-Roman: Bronze

• Andrzej Skrzydlewski

  Heavyweight, Greco-Roman: bronze

• Henryk Tomanek

  Super heavyweight, Greco-Roman: 4th place

• Wladyslaw Stecyk

  Flyweight, freestyle: 6th place

• Zbigniew Żedzicki

  Bantamweight, freestyle: 8th place

• Henryk Mazur

  Middleweight, freestyle: 6th place

• Paweł Kurczewski

  Light heavyweight, freestyle: 6th place

rowing

Men

• Alfons Ślusarski

  Two without a helmsman: 11th place

• Zbigniew Ślusarski

  Two without a helmsman: 11th place

• Ryszard Stadniuk

  Two with a helmsman: 6th place

• Grzegorz Stellak

  Two with a helmsman: 6th place

• Ryszard Kubiak

  Two with a helmsman: 6th place

• Jerzy Broniec

  Four with helmsman: 8th place

• Adam Tomasiak

  Four with helmsman: 8th place

• Jerzy Ulczyński

  Four with helmsman: 8th place

• Ryszard Burak

  Four with helmsman: 8th place

• Włodzimierz Chmielewski

  Four with helmsman: 8th place

Women

• Ewa Ambroziak

  One: 9th place

• Anna Krzemińska-Karbowiak

  Two without a helmsman: 8th place

• Małgorzata Kawalska

  Two without a helmsman: 8th place

• Anna Brandysiewicz

  Eighth with helmsman: 7th place

• Bogusława Kozłowska-Tomasiak

  Eighth with helmsman: 7th place

• Barbara Wenta-Wojciechowska

  Eighth with helmsman: 7th place

• Danuta Konkalec

  Eighth with helmsman: 7th place

• Róża Data

  Eighth with helmsman: 7th place

• Mieczysława Franczyk

  Eighth with helmsman: 7th place

• Maria Stadnicka

  Eighth with helmsman: 7th place

• Aleksandra Kaczyńska

  Eighth with helmsman: 7th place

• Dorota Zdanowska

  Eighth with helmsman: 7th place

shoot

• Maciej Orlik

  Rapid fire pistol 25 m: 27th place

• Józef Zapędzki

  Rapid fire pistol 25 m: 45th place

• Sławomir Romanowski

  Free pistol 50 m: 12th place

• Eugeniusz Pędzisz

  Small bore rifle, three-position fight 50 m: 14th place

• Romuald Siemionow

  Small bore rifle, three-position fight 50 m: 24th place

• Andrzej Trajda

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 28th place

• Stanislaw Marucha

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 37th place

• Jerzy Greszkiewicz

  Running target 50 m: bronze

• Zygmunt Bogdziewicz

  Running target 50 m: 15th place

• Adam Smelczyński

  Trap: 6th place

• Wiesław Gawlikowski

  Skeet: bronze

• Andrzej Socharski

  Skeet: 14th place

swim

Men

• Ryszard Żugaj

  100 m back: eliminated in the semi-finals

  200 m back: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Cezary Śmiglak

  100 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

Women

• Anna Skolarczyk

  100 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

sailing

• Ryszard Blaszka

  Finn dinghy: 16th place

do gymnastics

Men

• Andrzej Szajna

  Individual all-around: 6th place

  Floor: 10th place

  Horse jump: 7th place

  Bars: 6th place

  Horizontal bar: 14th place

  Rings: 17th place

  Pommel horse: 25th place

  Team all-around competition: 11th place

• Marian Pieczka

  Individual all-around: 61st place

  Floor: 44th place

  Horse jump: 35th place

  Bars: 85th place

  Horizontal bar: 49th place

  Rings: 70th place

  Pommel horse: 41st place

  Team all-around competition: 11th place

• Łukasz Uhma

  Individual all-around: 65th place

  Floor: 81st place

  Horse jump: 40th place

  Bars: 50th place

  Horizontal bar: 71st place

  Rings: 65th place

  Pommel horse: 65th place

  Team all-around competition: 11th place

• Roman Tkaczyk

  Individual all-around: 69th place

  Floor: 59th place

  Horse jump: 66th place

  Bars: 60th place

  Horizontal bar: 65th place

  Rings: 68th place

  Pommel horse: 77th place

  Team all-around competition: 11th place

• Mariusz Zasada

  Individual all-around: 71st place

  Floor: 88th place

  Horse jump: 54th place

  Bars: 31st place

  Horizontal bar: 53rd place

  Rings: 76th place

  Pommel horse: 80th place

  Team all-around competition: 11th place

• Grzegorz Ciastek

  Individual all-around: 74th place

  Floor: 61st place

  Horse jump: 66th place

  Bars: 79th place

  Horizontal bar: 81st place

  Rings: 65th place

  Pommel horse: 73rd place

  Team all-around competition: 11th place

volleyball

Men

• gold

  Wlodzimierz Stefanski

  Bronislaw Bebel

  Lech Lasko

  Edward Skorek

  Tomasz Wojtowicz

  Wieslaw Gawlowski

  Miroslaw Kibaczewski

  Zbigniew Lubiejewski

  Riszard Bosek

  Wlodzimierz Sadalski

  Zbigniew Zarzycki

  Marek Karbarz

Web links

• Polish Olympic Team from 1976 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )