Tadeusz Walasek
Tadeusz Walasek (born July 15, 1936 in Elzbiecin near Łomża ; † November 6, 2011 ) was a Polish boxer . He won a silver medal at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome and was European champion of amateurs in 1961 in the middleweight division .
Career
Tadeusz Walasek came to Wroclaw in the course of the turmoil of the war, his father was a member of the Polish II Corps of General Anders' army . In 1949 he started boxing at the Nysie Kłodzko Sports Club . He made rapid progress and was one of the best young boxers in Poland even at the junior level. In the course of his long career he also belonged to the clubs Stali Częstochowa , Górnik Zabrze , Sparta Ziębice and Gwardia Warsaw .
1955 Tadeusz Walasek Polish junior middleweight champion. This year he also made his first international start as part of a junior international match between Poland and Romania . He lost it against Gheorghe Negrea on points. In the same year he was also the winner of the 5th World Youth Festival in Warsaw in the welterweight division with a point victory over the experienced Romanian Nicolae Linca , who had won a medal at the European Senior Championships in 1953 and 1955.
In 1956 he qualified for the start at the Olympic Games in Melbourne without having previously been a Polish champion. But he had to pay tribute to his relative inexperience in Melbourne, because he lost in the first round against the Irish champions Frederick Tiedt .
At the European Championships in 1957 in Prague Tadeusz Walasek started in the light middleweight division. There he showed his great ability and defeated Ulrich Kienast from the Federal Republic of Germany , Johnny Cunningham from England and Ivan Sobolew from the USSR on points. In the final, he faced the exceptional Italian boxer Nino Benvenuti , who later became Olympic champion and professional world champion in the middleweight division, and was only marginally defeated by 2: 3 judges' votes after an even battle.
In 1958 Tadeusz Walasek was the first Polish middleweight champion. This title win followed in the years 1959 to 1964 six more in the middleweight division. In 1959 he started again at the European Championship of Amateurs, which took place in Lucerne . He won there over Paul Nickel from Schwerin with 4: 1 judge votes and was then lucky that he was awarded 3: 2 point wins in his next two fights against Tommaso Truppi from Italy and Harry Scott from England . The luck he had in these two fights, however, he lacked in the final against the Soviet Olympic champion from 1956 Gennady Shatkow , because in this final the judges awarded Shatkow a narrow 3-2 point victory.
In general, Tadeusz Walasek had it with 3-2 results. Because even in the 1960 Olympic final in Rome , in which he fought his way, there was a 3: 2 judgment and again to the disadvantage of Tadeusz Walasek. The judges gave the American Edward Crook the victory with this result. Tadeus Walasek won the silver medal with it . Before the final battle, he had defeated Sultan Mahmoud from Iraq , Teifion Davies from Australia , Frederik van Royen from South Africa and Ewgeni Feofanow from the Soviet Union, each on points. It was surely a coincidence that he had opponents from all five continents in the five fights he fought in Rome.
In 1961, Tadeusz Walasek then won his first title at an international championship. He became European middleweight amateurs champion in Belgrade . He defeated Luigo Baseotto also Italy by knockout in the 3rd round, defeated Wasil Paparizow from Bulgaria and Dragoslav Jakovljević from Yugoslavia on points and won the final over Ewgeni Feofanow by techn. KO in the 3rd round.
Tadeusz Walasek was not at the start at the 1963 European Championships, but at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo he won a bronze medal in the middleweight division . After victories over John Bukowski from Australia, Joae Aguilar from Argentina and Ahmed Hassan from the United Arab Republic, however, he suffered a knockout defeat in the semifinals from Valery Popentschenko from the USSR.
This was his last start in an international championship. Tadeusz Walasek represented his country from 1955 to 1964 in many international battles that were very popular at the time. His most important victory was undoubtedly the point victory over Valeri Popentschenko in 1963 in Łódź . Surprisingly, he had difficulties with boxers from Germany several times. In 1959 he lost to Ernst Haschka in Essen and in 1962 in Munich and 1963 in Breslau to Emil Schulz on points.
Tadeusz Walasek played a total of 421 fights, of which he won 378, nine times he fought a draw and 34 fights he lost. After the end of his playing days, he was a coach at various clubs for 20 years. His most successful student was Jerzy Rybicki .
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, EM = European Championship, We = welterweight, Hm = light middleweight, Wed = middleweight, back then up to 67 kg, 71 kg and 75 kg body weight)
- 1955, 1st place , 5th World Youth Festival in Warsaw , We, ahead of Nicolae Linca , Romania ;
- 1956, 9th place , OS in Melbourne , We, winner: Niculae Linca in front of Frederick Tiedt , Ireland , Kevin Hogarth , Australia a . Nicholas Gargano , Great Britain ;
- 1957, 2nd place , EM in Prague , Hm, behind Nino Benvenuti , Italy a . before Ivan Sobolew, USSR a . Rolf Caroli , GDR ;
- 1959, 2nd place , EM in Lucerne , Wed, behind Gennadi Schatkow , USSR a. before Harry Scott, England a . Colm McCoy, Ireland;
- 1960, silver medal , OS in Rome , Wed, behind Edward Crook , USA a . before Ewgeni Feofanow , USSR a. Ion Monea , Romania;
- 1961, 1st place , EM in Belgrade , Wed, before Ewgeni Feofanow, Dragoslav Jakovljević , Yugoslavia a . Franz Frauenlob, Austria ;
- 1964, 3rd place , OS in Tokyo , Wed, behind Valeri Popentschenko , USSR a. Emil Schulz , Germany , together with Francesco Valle, Italy
Polish championships
(Final results, if known)
- 1958, 1st place, Wed,
- 1959, 1st place, Wed,
- 1960, Wed, points winner over Lucjan Slovakiewics ,
- 1961, Wed, points winner over Edmund Dampc,
- 1962, Wed, points winner over Henryk Dampc ,
- 1963, Wed, points winner over Lucjan Slovakiewics,
- 1964, Wed, points winner over Lucjan Slovakiewics
International battles
- 1955 in Stettin , Poland June against Romania June, Wednesday, point defeat against Gheorghe Negrea ,
- 1955 in Helsinki , Finland against Poland, We, points winner over Paavo Rapatti,
- 1956 in Nowa Huta , Poland against Hungary , We, points winner over Andras Doeri,
- 1956 in Warsaw , Poland against FRG , Hm, KO winner 3rd round over Walter Madaj,
- 1956 in Stockholm , Sweden against Poland, Hm, demolition winner 3rd round over B. Andersson,
- 1956 in Gothenburg , Sweden against Poland, Hm, KO winner 2nd round over Sten Ahneloew,
- 1956 in Belgrade , Yugoslavia against Poland, Hm, points winner over Dragoslav Jakovljević ,
- 1956 in Sarajevo , Yugoslavia against Poland, Hm, points winner over Nenad Maric,
- 1957 in Dortmund , FRG against Poland, Hm, points winner over Franz-Josef Keul,
- 1957 in London , England against Poland, Hm, points winner over Jack Wood,
- 1957 in Manchester , England against Poland, Hm, points winner over Jack Wood,
- 1957 in Budapest , Hungary against Poland, Hm, points winner over Laszlo Cziszar,
- 1958 in Łódź , Poland against FRG, Wed, points winner over Schwab,
- 1958 in Warsaw, Poland against France , Wed, points winner over Michel Gonzales,
- 1958 in Bydgoszcz , Poland against Yugoslavia, Wed, points winner over Dragoslav Jakovljevic,
- 1958 in Rostock , GDR against Poland, Wed, technical knockout winner 3rd round over Bruno Wittkowski,
- 1958 in Breslau , Poland against Hungary, Wed, points winner over Laszlo Cziszar,
- 1959 in Essen , Germany against Poland, Wed, point defeat against Ernst Haschka,
- 1959 in Zagreb , Yugoslavia against Poland, Wed, points winner over Stevan Laskovic,
- 1959 in Ljubljana , Yugoslavia against Poland, Wed, points winner over Feketij,
- 1960 in Łódź, Poland against FRG, Wed, points winner over Eberhard Radzik,
- 1960 in Gdańsk, Poland against GDR, Wed, points winner over Günther Heinrich,
- 1961 in Budapest, Hungary against Poland, Wed, technical knockout winner 1st round over Laszlo Cziszar,
- 1962 in Munich , Germany against Poland, Wed, point defeat against Emil Schulz ,
- 1962 in Würzburg , FRG against Poland, Wed, point defeat against Burghard,
- 1962 in Nowa Huta, Poland against GDR, Wed, technical knockout winner 3rd round over Bernd Anders,
- 1962 in Kalisz , Poland against Hungary, Wed, demolition winner 2nd round over Laszlo Feher,
- 1963 in Łódź, Poland against Romania, Wed, points winner over Ion Monea ,
- 1963 in Poznan , Poland against GDR, Wed, points winner over Bernd Anders ,
- 1963 in Schwerin , GDR against Poland, Wed, points winner over Bernd Anders,
- 1963 in Breslau, Poland against FRG, Wed, point defeat against Emil Schulz,
- 1963 in Łódź, Poland against USSR , Wed, points winner over Valeri Popentschenko ,
- 1964 in Moscow , USSR against Poland, Wed, point defeat against Valeri Popentschenko
swell
- Box Sport magazine from 1955 to 1964,
- Box Almanach 1920–1980 , publisher of the German Amateur Boxing Association e. V., 1980,
- Website "www.sport-komplett.de",
- Website "www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl",
- Website "www.olimpijski.pl"
Web links
- Tadeusz Walasek in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Portrait of Tadeusz Walasek (Polish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.pzb.com.pl/zmarl_tadeusz_walasek,w,1767,96.html ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://wyborcza.pl/1,91446,10599098,Zmarl_wicemistrz_olimpijski_w_boksie_Tadeusz_Walasek.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Walasek, Tadeusz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish boxer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elzbiecin near Łomża |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 6, 2011 |