Zygfryd Perlicki (26 January 1932, in

Gdynia Gdynia is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast. With an estimated population of 257,000, it is the List of cities in Poland, 12th-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in the Pomeranian Voivodeship after Gdańsk ...

– 10 August 2017) was a

sailor A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to the operation and maintenance of a ship. While the term ''sailor'' ...

from

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

. He represented his country at the

1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and officially branded as Munich 1972 (; ), were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. It was the ...

Kiel Kiel ( ; ) is the capital and most populous city in the northern Germany, German state of Schleswig-Holstein. With a population of around 250,000, it is Germany's largest city on the Baltic Sea. It is located on the Kieler Förde inlet of the Ba ...

. He took 8th place in the

Soling The Soling is an Keelboat, open keelboat that holds the World Sailing "International class" status. The class was used from the Sailing at the 1972 Summer Olympics, 1972 Olympics until the Sailing at the 2000 Summer Olympics, 2000 Olympics as "Sa ...

with

Józef Błaszczyk Józef Wojciech Błaszczyk (born 23 March 1947, in Gdynia) is a sailing (sport), sailor from Poland. Błaszczyk represented his country at the Sailing at the 1972 Summer Olympics, 1972 Summer Olympics in Kiel. Błaszczyk took 8th place in the Sa ...

and Stanisław Stefański as fellow crew members. Perlicki sailed on ''

Copernicus Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath who formulated a mathematical model, model of Celestial spheres#Renaissance, the universe that placed heliocentrism, the Sun rather than Earth at its cen ...

'' during the first Whitbread Round the World Race in 1973-74.

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* * * * 1932 births 2017 deaths Polish male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Poland Sailors at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Soling Volvo Ocean Race sailors Sportspeople from Gdynia People from Pomeranian Voivodeship (1919–1939) 20th-century Polish sportsmen {{Poland-yachtracing-bio-stub