Leszek Błażyński (5 March 1949 – 6 August 1992)
was a
Polish
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who twice won the bronze medal in the men's
flyweight
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Boxing
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Professional boxing
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(– 51 kg) division at the
Summer Olympics. He first did so in
1972
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, when
Munich
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hosted the Games.
Four years later in
Montreal
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, he once again captured the bronze, after a loss in the semifinals against eventual winner
Leo Randolph of the
United States
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. He
Błażyński was born in
Ełk
Ełk (; former pl, Łek; german: Lyck; Old Prussian: ''Luks''; lt, Lukas), also spelled Elk in English, is a small city in northeastern Poland with 61,677 inhabitants as of December 2021. It was assigned to Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in 1999, ...
,
Warmińsko-Mazurskie. He committed suicide in 1992, aged 43, in
Katowice,
Śląskie. He suffered from depression after the death of his wife.
[Mija 20 lat od śmierci Leszka Błażyńskiego]
by Tomasz Kalemba, ''Onet Sport'', 5 August 2012. He was buried at the Communal Cemetery in
Katowice. He was survived by his son.
Olympic results
1972
* Round of 64: bye
* Round of 32: Defeated
Chander Narayanan (India) 3-2
* Round of 16: Defeated
Arturo Delgado (Mexico) 5-0
* Quarterfinal: Defeated
You Man-Chong (South Korea) 3-2
* Semifinal: Lost to
Georgi Kostadinov
Georgi Kostadinov (born 16 January 1950) is a former boxer from Bulgaria. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Amateur career
Georgi Kostadinov won the Olympic flyweight gold medal at the 1972 Munich Olympi ...
(Bulgaria) 0-5 (was awarded bronze medal)
1976
* Round of 32: Defeated
Antônio Toledo Filho (Brazil) KO 2
* Round of 16: Defeated
Fazlija Sacirović (Yugoslavia) 3-2
* Quarterfinal: Defeated
Alfredo Pérez (Venezuela) 3-2
* Semifinal: Lost to
Leo Randolph (United States) 1-4 (was awarded bronze medal)
References
External links
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Biography of Leszek Błażyński
1949 births
1992 deaths
Flyweight boxers
Boxers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers of Poland
Olympic bronze medalists for Poland
Olympic medalists in boxing
People from Ełk
Suicides in Poland
Sportspeople from Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
Polish male boxers
Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Burials in Katowice
1992 suicides
20th-century Polish people
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