Jerzy Rybicki
Jerzy Rybicki ( born June 6, 1953 in Warsaw ) is a retired Polish boxer. He was Olympic champion in 1976 in Montreal at light middleweight.
Career
Jerzy Rybicki began in 1968 at Gwardia Warsaw, the club where he served until his retirement in late 1983, with the boxes. He was trained there by Michal Szczepan and Tadeusz Walasek. His first major success was winning the Polish championship in the juniors in the light middleweight in 1971. In 1972, he finished in the senior welterweight after losing in the semifinals against Andrzej Stawski 3rd place. In 1974, he was then with a points victory over Zbigniew Kicka the first time Polish champion in the seniors in light middleweight. By 1981, he still won this title then six times in three different weight classes.
His debut at international championships he gave at the World Cup in 1974 in Havana. He started there in the light middleweight and met after victories over Keith Neil from Guyana and Wilfredo Guzman of Puerto Rico in the quarterfinals on Anatoli Klimanow from the USSR, he lost to on points.
In 1975 he competed at the European Championships in Katowice. He had abtrainiert in the welterweight division, where she won with a third place his first medal at an international championship. On the way, he defeated Luigi Minchillo from Italy by technical knockout in the second round and Vyacheslav Bodnia from the USSR on points. In the semifinals, he lost to eventual champion from Finland Kalevi Marjamaa on points.
1976 lost Jerzy Rybicki at the Polish Championship in the welterweight division against Jozef Stachowiak by techn. Knockout in the first round because he could not continue boxing because of a eyebrow injury. But he recovered in time for the Olympic Games in Montreal from this injury and started there in the light middleweight. He was in Montreal by no means the favorite in his weight class and yet he celebrated with victories over Charles Walker from the USA, who narrowly failed with 3-2 judges votes, a re- point victory over Wilfredo Guzman, a surprise victory over the Soviet Favorites Viktor Savchenko (with 3: 2 again be very close) and a superior 5-0 points victory over Tadija Kacar from Yugoslavia winning the gold medal.
After this great triumph his next start was at an international championship at the European Championships 1977 in Halle. He won there in the light middleweight about Günter Rostankowski from the GDR and Miroslav Pavlic from Yugoslavia on points in the semifinals and failed to Viktor Savchenko, he lost to on points. He came therefore to the 3rd place, with which he won his second European Championship medal with the bronze medal.
At Viktor Savchenko Jerzy Rybicki also failed at the World Cup 1978 in Belgrade, against whom he this time in the semifinals even a bitter knockout loss in the first round had to take. Previously, he had defeated Alfredo Lemus from Venezuela by points and Markus Intlekofer from Germany by termination in the 2nd round.
At the European Championships in 1979 in Cologne Jerzy Rybicki denied only two fights. In the second round he won over Detlef Kästner from the GDR by termination in the 2nd round and in the quarter-finals he lost to Mark Intlekofer on points and thus remained without a medal.
At the end of his international career, he also launched Boxer still at the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980, where she won a bronze medal once again. He won it in the second round against Tarmo Uusivirta from Finland, because this had to be taken because of an injury out of the ring, then beat in the quarterfinals Peter Odhiambo of Uganda and lost in the semifinals against his old rival Viktor Savchenko by RSC in the 3rd round because of a eyebrow injury.
After the Olympic Games in Moscow Jerzy Rybicki ended his international career as a boxer. He completed a coach training at the Sports University ( AWF ) in Warsaw and was from 1984 to 1989 Gwardia coach at Warsaw. From 1989 to 1993 he was the coach of the Polish national team, amateur boxers.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European, Hw = Light Welterweight, We = welterweight, Hm = light middleweight, Mi = middleweight, then to 63.5 kg, 67 kg, 71 kg and 75 kg body weight)
Polish Championships
(Final results )
Countries fighting
Swell
- Journal box sports from the years 1972 - 1981,
- Box Almanac 1920 - 1980 eV, German Publisher amateur boxing association, 1980,
- Website " www.sport- komplett.de "
- Website " www.amateur - boxing.strefa.pl "
- Website " www.olimpijski.pl "