 Zygmunt Smalcerz in 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 8 June 1941 (1941-06-08) (age 83) Bestwinka, Śląskie, Poland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.53 m (5 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 52 kg (115 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | AZS Warszawa Legia Warszawa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Zygmunt Antoni Smalcerz (born 8 June 1941) is a retired Polish weightlifter who won the gold medal in the flyweight class at the 1972 Olympics. He also competed at the 1976 Games but had to withdraw due to injury.
In 2002 he was elected member of the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of Fame.
He was the head coach of the Polish weightlifting team for the run-up and including the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
From 2010 through 2017, he was the resident weightlifting coach at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.
As of 2020, he works as the head coach of the Norwegian Weightlifting Federation.
References
- ^ Zygmunt Smalcerz. sports-reference
- "Weightlifting Hall of Fame". International Weightlifting Federation. Retrieved 7 August 2008.
External links
- Zygmunt Smalcerz at Lift Up
- Zygmunt Smalcerz at IAT Database Weightlifting (in German)
- Zygmunt Smalcerz at Olympedia
- Zygmunt Smalcerz at the Polish Olympic Committee (archived) (in Polish)
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- 1941 births
- Polish male weightlifters
- Weightlifters at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Poland
- Living people
- Olympic medalists in weightlifting
- People from Bielsko County
- Sportspeople from Silesian Voivodeship
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- World Weightlifting Championships medalists
- 20th-century Polish sportsmen
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