Tadeusz Walasek | |
Fullname: | Tadeusz Walasek |
Nationality: | Polish |
Weight Class: | Middleweight |
Club: | Gwardia Warszawa (Nysa, Kłodzko) |
Birth Date: | 1936 7, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Elżbiecin, Łomża County, Podlaskie |
Weight: | 76kg (168lb) |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Tadeusz Walasek (15 July 1936 – 4 November 2011) was a Polish boxer.[1] [2] [3] He competed at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a silver medal in 1960 and a bronze in 1964, both in the middleweight division. In 1960 he lost the final bout to Eddie Crook by a narrow margin (2:3).[1] [4]
Walasek competed three times at the European Amateur Boxing Championships and won two silver medals, in 1957 in the light middleweight division[5] and in 1959 in the middleweight category,[6] and a gold medal in 1961 in the middleweight.[7]
He was the winner of the Aleksander Reksza Boxing Award 1996.[8]