Teodor Kocerka

Teodor Kocerka (6 August 1927 – 25 September 1999) was a Polish rower who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics, those of 1956, and those of 1960.^[1]

Teodor Kocerka

Teodor Kocerka
Personal information
Born	6 August 1927 Bydgoszcz, Second Polish Republic
Died	25 September 1999(1999-09-25) (aged 72) Warsaw, Poland
Sport
Sport	Rowing
Medal record Men's rowing Representing  Poland Olympic Games 1952 Helsinki Single sculls 1960 Rome Single sculls European Championships 1953 Copenhagen Single sculls 1954 Amsterdam Single sculls 1955 Ghent Single sculls 1956 Bled Single sculls 1959 Mâcon Single sculls

He was born in Bydgoszcz in the mid-north of Poland and died in Warsaw.^[1]

Olympic events competed

In 1952 he won the bronze medal in single sculling.^[1]

Four years later he finished fourth in the same event.^[1]

At the 1960 Games he won his second bronze in the single sculls.^[1]

In the same years as the two bronzes he was pre-selected flagbearer for the Polish Olympic squad.

Major competition wins

He took gold at single sculling at the 1955 European championships.

That same year he won the Diamond Challenge Sculls ('Diamonds') at Henley Royal Regatta, by a length and a half over Sid Rand.^[2] He won the next year's event by four lengths, over TA Fox of London RC.^[2] His last such final was in 1960, losing by half a length to Stuart Mackenzie of Henley's highly selective Leander Club, not breaking the latter rower's six-year success. By that time Kocerka had changed chosen club from AZS Bydgoszcz to AZS Szczecin.^[2]