Ryszard Parulski

Ryszard Parulski (9 March 1938 – 10 January 2017) was a Polish fencer.^[1] He won a silver medal in the team foil event at the 1964 Summer Olympics and a bronze in the same event at the 1968 Summer Olympics.^[2][3] He also won gold medals at the 1961 World Fencing Championships^[4] and 1963 World Fencing Championships.^[4]

Ryszard Parulski

Personal information
Born	(1938-03-09)9 March 1938 Warsaw, Poland
Died	10 January 2017(2017-01-10) (aged 78)
Sport
Sport	Fencing
Medal record Men's fencing Representing  Poland Olympic Games 1964 Tokyo Foil, team 1968 Mexico City Foil, team World Fencing Championships 1961 Turin Foil, individual 1963 Gdańsk Épée, team 1963 Gdańsk Foil, individual 1963 Gdańsk Foil, team 1969 Havana Foil, individual 1961 Turin Foil, team 1962 Buenos Aires Foil, team 1966 Moscow Foil, team 1967 Montreal Foil, team 1969 Havana Foil, team

A lawyer by civil profession, Parulski served as the vice-chairman of the Polish Olympic Committee from 1990 until 1992. In 1997, he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.^[5] In 2017, he was posthumously awarded the Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta by President of Poland Andrzej Duda for "outstanding contributions to the promotion and popularization of sport as well as his activism for the Olympic community".^[6]