Tadeusz Walasek

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]

Tadeusz Walasek

Tadeusz Walasek (center) at the 1964 Olympics
Personal information
Full name	Tadeusz Walasek
Nationality	Polish
Born	(1936-07-15)15 July 1936 Elżbiecin, Łomża County, Podlaskie
Died	4 November 2011(2011-11-04) (aged 75)
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	76 kg (168 lb)
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Weight class	Middleweight
Club	Gwardia Warszawa (Nysa, Kłodzko)
Medal record Representing  Poland Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 0 1 1 World Championships 0 0 0 European Championships 1 2 0 Total 1 3 1 Olympic Games 1960 Rome Middleweight 1964 Tokyo Middleweight European Amateur Championships 1961 Belgrade Middleweight 1957 Prague Light middleweight 1959 Lucerne Middleweight

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]