Zbigniew Kaczmarek

Zbigniew Tadeusz Kaczmarek (born June 21, 1946 in Tarnowskie Góry , Poland ) is a former Polish-German weightlifter .

Career

Kaczmarek grew up in Upper Silesia , played soccer as a teenager , then came to cycling and finally found weightlifting, which he did intensively from 1963 at the sports club LZS Tarnowskie Góry and then at "Gornik" Siemianowice . In 1964 he was already Polish junior lightweight champion and in 1966 he finished fourth in the Polish championships for senior citizens. In 1969 he was used at the World and European Championships in Warsaw for the first time in a major international championship and immediately won the bronze medal in the lightweight. In the course of his further career he won several world and European championships. Highlights of his career were his duels with his compatriot and friend Waldemar Baszanowski , whom he beat at the World Championships in 1970 in Columbus / USA and in 1971 in Lima .

In 1976, a shadow fell on Kaczmarek's career when he was subsequently disqualified for doping after winning the Olympic Games in Montreal and had to surrender his gold medal to the Soviet athlete Petro Korol . In 1982, instead of going on vacation to Greece , he fled with his wife of German origin and his 13-year-old son to the Federal Republic of Germany , where he was naturalized, was allowed to take part in weightlifting championships and was German champion several times. In Kassel and Wolfsburg he became a reliable and high-performance athlete in the team fights of the Bundesliga. He and his wife built a house in Baunatal near Kassel and he worked for Volkswagen. Kaczmarek trained to be a mining technician.

International successes / all-around

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Le = lightweight, Mi = middleweight, Ls = light heavyweight, competitions up to 1972 in the Olympic three-way fight, consisting of pushing, tearing and pushing, from 1973 in a duel, consisting of tearing and Bump)

• 1966, 1st place , intern. Junior tournament in Żary / PL, Le, with 365 kg in front of Filimonow, USSR , 347.5 kg and Haller, Austria , 317.5 kg;
• 1967, 4th place , Grand Prix of the USSR in Tbilisi , Le, with 392.5 kg, behind Parvis Jalayer, Iran , 407.5 kg, Nogaitschew, USSR, 400 kg and Fitzi Balas , Romania , 397.5 kg;
• 1969, 1st place , Baltic Cup in Zinnowitz , Le, with 402.5 kg, ahead of Dittmer, GDR , 395 kg and Rudolf Kozłowski , Poland , 387.5 kg;
• 1969, 3rd place , WM + EM in Warsaw , Le, with 425 kg, behind Waldemar Baszanowski , Poland, 445 kg and Janos Bagocs , Hungary , 430 kg;
• 1970, 1st place , Grand Prix of the USSR in Minsk , Le, with 425 kg, in front of Bagocs, 420 kg and Dehnavi, Iran, 420 kg;
• 1970, 3rd place , EM in Szombathely , Le, with 427.5 kg, behind Baszanowski, 432.5 kg and Janos Bagocs , 427.5 kg;
• 1970, 1st place , World Championships in Columbus / USA , Le, with 440 kg, ahead of Baszanowski, 437.5 kg and Bagocs, 432.5 kg;
• 1971, 2nd place , EM in Sofia , Le, with 435 kg, behind Baszanowski, 450 kg and in front of Mate, Hungary, 412.5 kg;
• 1971, 4th place , Baltic Cup in Lübeck , Wed, with 425 kg, behind Leif Jensen , Norway , 442.5 kg, Baszanowski, 440 kg and Uwe Kliche , Germany , 430 kg;
• 1971, 1st place , WM in Lima , Le, with 440 kg, ahead of Baszanowski, 435 kg and Mucharbi Kirschinow , USSR 430 kg;
• 1972, 2nd place , EM in Constanța , Le, with 442.5 kg, behind Mladen Kutschew , Bulgaria , 447.5 kg and in front of Kirschinow, 435 kg;
• 1972, bronze medal , OS in Munich , Le, with 437.5 kg, behind Kirschinow, 460 kg and Kutschew, 450 kg;
• 1973, 3rd place , EM in Madrid , Le, with 292.5 kg, behind Kirschinow, 302.5 kg and Kutschew, 295 kg;
• 1974, 2nd place , EM in Verona , Le, with 297.5 kg, behind Kirschinow, 300 kg and in front of Walter Legel, Austria, 280 kg;
• 1974, 4th place , Baltic Cup in Växjö / Sweden , Wed, with 300 kg, behind Kirschinow, 310 kg, Dörner, GDR, 307.5 kg and grains, GDR, 302.5 kg;
• 1974, 2nd place , World Championships in Manila , Le, with 302.5 kg, behind Petro Korol , USSR, 305 kg and in front of Dehnavi, 295 kg;
• 1975, 2nd place , World Championships in Moscow , Le, with 312.5 kg, behind Korol, 312.5 kg and in front of Kutschew, 302.5 kg;
• 1976, 1st place , EM in East Berlin , Le, with 305 kg, in front of Jan Lostowski , Poland, 302.5 kg, Sergei Pewzner, USSR, 297.5 kg a. Werner Schraut , FRG, 295 kg (127.5–167.5);
• 1976, unplaced , OS in Montreal , Le, disqualification because of doping, after an original victory with 307.5 kg, thus winner: Korol, 305 kg ahead of Daniel Senet , France , 300 kg;
• 1977, 3rd place (2nd place) , WM + EM in Donaueschingen , Le, with 297.5 kg, behind Roberto Urrutia , Cuba , 315 kg and Pewzner, 302.5 kg;
• 1978, 3rd place , EM in Havířov , Le, with 302.5 kg, behind Janko Russew , Bulgaria, 312.5 kg and Buta, Romania, 305 kg;
• 1978, 2nd place , WM in Gettysburg / USA, Le, with 302.5 kg, behind Russew, 310 kg and in front of Günter Ambraß , GDR, 300 kg;
• 1980, 6th place , OS in Moscow , Le, with 317.5 kg, behind Russew, 342.5 kg, Joachim Kunz , GDR, 335 kg, Mincho Pachow, Bulgaria, 325 kg, Senet, 322.5 kg and Ambraß , 320 kg.

Continuation of the career as a German:

• 1983, 2nd place , EC championship in Copenhagen , Wed, with 317.5 kg, behind Karl-Heinz Radschinsky , Germany, 330 kg and in front of Steve Pisent, Great Britain , 317.5 kg;
• 1984, 2nd place , Baltic Cup in Forst, Wed, with 315 kg, behind Hartmut Bauermeister, GDR, 325 kg and in front of Rönning, Norway, 272.5 kg;
• 1985, 2nd place , EC championship in Baunatal , Wed, with 305 kg, behind David Morgan, Great Britain, 330 kg and in front of Jean-Chr. Paterni, France , 305 kg.

Medals individual disciplines

• World Cup Gold Medals: 1971, Push, Le - 1975, Tear, Le,
• World Cup silver medals: 1969, Push, Le - 1970, Push, Le - 1970, Tear, Le - 1970, Push, Le - 1974, Push, Le - 1975, Push, Le - 1978, Push, Le,
• World Cup bronze medals: 1972, Poke, Le - 1974, Tear, Le - 1977, Poke, Le.

• EM gold medals: 1969, push, Le - 1971, push, Le - 1974, tear, Le - 1975, tear, Le - 1976, tear, Le,
• EM silver medals: 1970, push, Le - 1970, push, Le - 1971, tear, Le - 1972, push, Le -1974, push, Le - 1975, push, Le - 1977, push, Le - 1978, push, Le,
• European championship bronze medals: 1971, push, 1972, tear, Le - 1972, push, Le - 1973, push, Le - 1976, push, Le.

Polish championships

• 1966, 4th place , Le, with 372.5 kg, behind Marian Zieliński , 420 kg, Franciczek Benedik, 380 kg and Polakiewicz, 380 kg;
• 1968, 4th place , Le, with 395 kg, behind Baszanowski, 425 kg, Zielinski, 410 kg and Benedik, 400 kg;
• 1969, 2nd place , Le, with 407.5 kg, behind Baszanowski, 420 kg and in front of Zielinski, 400 kg;
• 1970, 1st place , with 425 kg, ahead of Benedik, 405 kg and Falek, 370 kg;
• 1971, 3rd place , Wed, with 420 kg;
• 1972, 1st place , Wed, with 445 kg, ahead of Jerzy Kaczkowski , 430 kg and Meder, 422.5 kg;
• 1973, 1st place , Le, with 282.5 kg;
• 1974, 2nd place , Wed, with 297.5 kg, behind Rabczewski, 302.5 kg and in front of Meder, 290 kg;
• 1975, 1st place , Le, with 300 kg;
• 1977, 1st place , Le, with 295 kg, ahead of Kazimierz Czarnecki , 292.5 kg;
• 1980, 3rd place , Wed, with 315 kg.

German championships

• 1982, 1st place , Le, with 297.5 kg, ahead of Rudi Eschenröder, Frankfurt am Main , 267.5 kg and Wilfried Dörner, Wiesbaden , 265 kg;
• 1983, 1st place , Le, with 297.5 kg, ahead of Eschenröder, 270 kg;
• 1984, 2nd place , Ls, with 322.5 kg, behind Norbert Bergmann , Mutterstadt , 325 kg and in front of Reinhard Klein, Wuppertal, 320 kg;
• 1987, 1st place , Wed, with 315 kg, ahead of Piotr Mandra , Wolfsburg, 315 kg and Michael Neiße, Wolfsburg, 302.5 kg.

World record

in tears:

• 139.5 kg, 1976 in Berlin .

Web links

• Zbigniew Kaczmarek in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Zbigniew Kaczmarek in Top Olympic Lifters of the 20th Century

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games - Chronicle III: Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984 . Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 , p. 614 .