Jerzy Adamski
Jerzy Adamski ( born March 14, 1937 in Sierpc, † December 6, 2002 in Bydgoszcz ) was a Polish featherweight boxer. He won at the Olympics in Rome in 1960, a silver medal and was European champion in 1959 in Lucerne.
Career
Jerzy Adamsky, nicknamed " Jopek " began as a teenager at the sports club Polonia Pila with the boxes. His first coach was Karl Nadskakula. Later he moved to Brd Bydgoszcz Bydgoszcz or to Startu and Asttorii Bydgoszcz. The then- Polish national team coach Feliks tribe formed him in 1956 in the Polish national team to a world-class boxer.
Jerzy Adamski first started bantamweight, but soon moved into the featherweight and had to 1.71 meters Height very good conditions. He was a brilliant technician who could beat perfect right-left combinations. To this end, he had a very good footwork, was sent and strong.
Jerzy Adamski was a locksmith and mechanic and worked for the Polish railways.
In 1956 he was Polish champion bantamweight for the first time. In 1957 he has also been used at the European Championships in Prague bantamweight. He won there in his first fight over Pal Fekete from Hungary on points, but different in the quarter- finals by one point defeat by Gianfranco Piovesani from Italy from. He got away with it in the final accounts, together with the other three losers from the quarter-finals on the 5th Place.
1959 Jerzy Adamski Polish champion at featherweight. This title he also won in 1960, 1961, 1962 and 1964. At the European Championships in 1959 in Lucerne, he started in the featherweight and defeated there Kalman Dubovszky, Hungary, by disqualification in the second round and Sandro Lopopolo from Italy and Andre Juncker from France on points. In the final battle, he defeated the Hamburg Peter Goschka 4-1 judges' votes on points and thus became European Champion.
A year later, he went at the Olympic Games in Rome in the featherweight at the start. From Feliks tribe well prepared he won there over Sumith Liyanage Mohandas from Ceylon, Shin-etsu Suzuki from Japan, Ernst Chervet from Switzerland and William Meyers from South Africa on points. In the final he was Francesco Musso over from Italy. The Italian boxer had prepared for the boxing tournament in Rome intensive. This also got Jerzy Adamski feel, because Musso defeated him on points. For Jerzy Adamski the silver medal, which was a huge success for him, no doubt remained.
At the European Championships in Belgrade in 1961 Jerzy Adamski was not used. But he was again at the European Championships 1963 in Moscow at the start. In Moscow he needed only a battle in which he defeated Paul Budde from the FRG on points to get to the semifinals, where he lost to the Soviet athletes Stanislaw Stepanovich Stepaschkin in the third round technical knockout. He won so that the end of his international career once an EM bronze medal.
In 1965, he finally came back from boxing. He had played 270 fights, 237 wins, 10 draws and 23 defeats.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, European Championship EM =, Ba = bantamweight, featherweight = Fe, up to 54 kg or 57 kg body weight)