Piotr Kiełpikowski

Piotr Kiełpikowski medal table
fencing
Poland
Olympic games
bronze	Barcelona 1992	Foil team
silver	Atlanta 1996	Foil team
World championships
silver	Lyon 1990	Foil team
bronze	Essen 1993	Foil team
bronze	The Hague 1995	Foil team
bronze	La Chaux-de-Fonds 1998	foil
gold	La Chaux-de-Fonds 1998	Foil team
bronze	Seoul 1999	Foil team
silver	Nîmes 2001	Foil team
bronze	Lisbon 2002	foil
European championships
silver	Plovdiv 1998	Foil team
bronze	Bolzano 1999	Foil team

Piotr Andrzej Kiełpikowski (born November 27, 1962 in Grudziądz ) is a former Polish foil fencer .

successes

Piotr Kiełpikowski won with the team at the world championships , first in 1990 in Lyon silver and 1,993 in food and in 1995 in The Hague each bronze, before her 1998 in La Chaux-de-Fonds became world champion. He then secured bronze in the team competition in Seoul in 1999 and silver in Nîmes in 2001 . In individual he won bronze in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1998 and in Lisbon in 2002 . In 1998 he was also vice European champion in the team competition in Plovdiv . In the following year team bronze followed in Bolzano. At national level he was Polish individual champion in 1992, from 1984 to 1989 he won the title with the foil team and in 1988 with the epee team.

He took part in the Olympic Games three times : in 1988 in Seoul he was fifth with the foil team and tenth with the Degen team. In 1992 he reached the semi-finals in Barcelona 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 Kiełpikowski received the bronze medal along with Ryszard Sobczak , Adam Krzesiński , Cezary Siess and Marian Sypniewski . He finished the individual competition in 15th place. At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta he moved into the final with the Polish team after victories over Venezuela , Germany and Austria , in which they had to admit defeat to Russia with 40:45. Together with Ryszard Sobczak, Adam Krzesiński and Jarosław Rodzewicz , he received the silver medal. He finished the individual competition on rank 16. Actually, after injuring himself in the individual, he should have been represented by substitute Rodzewicz in the entire team competition. Since he had to travel from Poland first and this led to problems, Kiełpikowski was forced to take on Venezuela despite being injured. He ended his career in 2002.

Web links

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