Jerzy Pawłowski
Władysław Jerzy Pawlowski ( born October 25, 1932 in Warsaw, † January 11, 2005 ) was a Polish fencer who won five Olympic medals. After his career, he was sentenced in Poland for spying for the United States.
Sporting career
Born in Warsaw in a family with patriotic traditions. In 1949 he began the fencing training. In 1952 he was drafted into the army and began to train " Legia " in the Sport Club of the Army. There he met the great Hungarian coach Janos Kevey. In the same year he won the Polish Championship in foil and competed at the Summer Olympics in Helsinki. 1956 at the Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne, he won two silver medals, one with the team (along with Marian Kuszewski, Zygmunt Pawlas, Andrzej Piątkowski, Wojciech Zabłocki and Ryszard Zub ). 1957 at the World Championships in Budapest, he won by his victory over Rudolf Karpati the gold medal. In 1960 he won at the Summer Olympic Games in Rome, together with his team the silver medal in saber ( together with: Pawlowski, Piątkowski, Zub, Zabłocki, Emil Ochyra ). 1964 at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, he won the bronze medal with the team. In 1968 he had his greatest success, a gold medal in fencing at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico
Except in the Olympics, he won 19 times medals at the world championships, including seven gold medals (1957, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966). He was also 14 - times Polish champion in saber and foil in. 1967 appointed him the Fédération Internationale d' Escrime the best fencers of all time. In the years 1970-1974 he fulfilled the function of the President of the Polish Fencing Federation. During this period he also completed a law degree from the University of Warsaw.
Twice (1957 and 1968 ), he was voted the best athlete of the year in Poland.
In addition to Sports activities
Since 1950 Jerzy Pawlowski secret employee of the Polish Security Service " Wojskowa sluzba wewnętrzna " and, according to some sources, member of the Ministry of Public Security and the sluzba Bezpieczeństwa PRL, where he primarily provided social information on athletes was.
Since 1964 he has also worked with the CIA, which, during a stay in the U.S., under the pseudonym " Paweł " recruited him. He sent the Americans in particular personal and social information about people from the political- military environment. In 1975 he was, on charges of spying for the United States, was arrested in Poland. On April 8, 1976, he was convicted of 25 years in prison to 10 years loss of his civil rights and to the rank of corporal ( he was a colonel ) degraded. After 10 years, he was released due to a pardon, This was part of an exchange between CIA and KGB agents in 1985 in Potsdam, where he was replaced by Marian Zacharski. However, he decided to stay in Poland.
After his release he returned to amateur fencing because it professional fencing was banned. Towards the end of his life he focused on painting, mainly landscape painting, and with the bio energy therapy.
He wrote the books: Trud olimpijskiego złota, Najdłuższy Pojedynek and Spowiedź szablisty ....
Swell
- Piotr Pytlakowski, " Mistrz, który przegrał życie " Polityka nr 03 /2005 ( 2487 )