Tadeusz Walasek

Tadeusz Walasek

Tadeusz Walasek (center) at the 1964 Olympics
Personal information
Full name	Tadeusz Walasek
Nationality	Poland
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
Rated at	Middleweight
Club	Nysa Kłodzko Gwardia Warszawa
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

Tadeusz Walasek (15 July 1936 – 4 November 2011) was a Polish boxer. 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).

Walasek competed three times at the European Amateur Boxing Championships and won two silver medals, in 1957 in the light middleweight division and in 1959 in the middleweight category, and a gold medal in 1961 in the middleweight.

He was the winner of the Aleksander Reksza Boxing Award 1996.