Ryszard Zub
| Ryszard Zub medal table |
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 Poland
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 Olympic games
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| silver | Melbourne 1956 | Saber crew |
| silver | Rome 1960 | Saber crew |
| bronze | Tokyo 1964 | Saber crew |
 World championships
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| bronze | Paris 1957 | Saber crew |
| gold | Budapest 1959 | Saber crew |
| gold | Turin 1961 | Saber crew |
| gold | Buenos Aires 1962 | Saber crew |
| gold | Gdansk 1963 | Saber crew |
Ryszard Zub (born March 24, 1934 in Lwów , then Poland ; † January 11, 2015 in Padua , Italy ) was a Polish saber fencer and trainer.
successes
Ryszard Zub was world champion with the team in 1959 in Budapest , 1961 in Turin , 1962 in Buenos Aires and 1963 in Gdansk . In addition, he won bronze with her in Paris in 1957 . He took part in the Olympic Games three times : at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne he reached the final round with the team, in which they only had to admit defeat to Hungary and took second place. Together with Marek Kuszewski , Andrzej Piątkowski , Jerzy Pawłowski , Wojciech Zabłocki and Zygmunt Pawlas , Zub won the silver medal. In 1960 he was eliminated in Rome singles in the quarter-finals, while he moved into the final again with the team. There Hungary turned out to be the stronger team for the second time and won the battle 9: 7, so that Zub received another silver medal with Marek Kuszewski, Emil Ochyra , Jerzy Pawłowski, Andrzej Piątkowski and Wojciech Zabłocki. Four years later he won the bronze medal in the team competition in Tokyo with Emil Ochyra, Jerzy Pawłowski, Andrzej Piątkowski and Wojciech Zabłocki. In the semifinals, the Polish team lost to the Soviet Union before winning the battle for third place against France . At the national level, Zub won the Polish national championships in 1959 in singles and from 1962 to 1966 with the team.
After his active career, Zub worked as a fencing trainer, first in Poland and later in Padua in Italy . Among his protégés were the Olympic champions Michele Maffei , Mario Aldo Montano , Marco Marin and Gianfranco Dalla Barba .
Web links
- Ryszard Zub in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Zub, Ryszard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish saber fencer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lviv |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 2015 |
| Place of death | Padua , Italy |