Wiesław Rudkowski
Wieslaw Ksawery Rudkowski ( born November 17, 1946 in Łódź ) is a former Polish amateur boxer in the Light Middleweight.
Boxing career
Rudkowski was during his competitive career around 1,80 m tall and boxed for RKS Łódź and Legia Warsaw. It was 1963 Polish Junior Featherweight Champion, 1964 Polish Junior Champion in lightweight, 1966 Polish welterweight champion, and 1967 to 1975 nine times in a row, Polish champion in the light middleweight division.
In the welterweight he rode at the 17th European Championships 1967 in Rome, where he still defeated in the first round against Manfred cloud. In the 19th Summer Olympics in October 1968 in Mexico City, he fought at middleweight and won his first fight against Charles Amos from Guyana (Co ), but then lost against Alexei Kiselyov from the Soviet Union ( 0:5 ).
The 19th European Championships 1971 in Madrid, he successfully fought a bronze medal in the light middleweight. He defeated while Franz Csandl from Austria ( Ko), Mikko Saarinen from Finland (5:0) and Hakkı Sözen from Turkey (5-0 ) before losing in the semifinals against Svetomir Belić from Yugoslavia. The greatest success of his career, he scored in the Light Middleweight at the 20th Summer Olympic Games in Munich in 1972, when he victories against Castellini Antonio from Italy ( 5:0 ), Nayden Stanchev from Bulgaria (5-0 ), Rolando Garbey from Cuba (4: 1) and Peter Tiepold from the GDR (4:1) penetrated into the final. There, he lost narrowly against the Germans Dieter Kottysch ( 2:3 ), and thus won the silver medal.
On April 18, 1973, he won in an international comparison fight in the U.S. against the Chicago Golden Gloves champion Fred Reed. In June of the same year he won another silver medal at the 20th European Championships in Belgrade in the light middleweight. After victorious battles against Francis villages of Austria ( Ko), Tomáš Kemel from the Czech Republic (5-0 ) and Sandu Tirila from Romania (5:0), he only lost in the final against Anatoly Klimanow from the Soviet Union. He scored a significant success in the last light middleweight at the 21th European Championships in 1975 in Katowice. Through victory against Alexander Harrison from Scotland (5-0 ), Tomáš Kemel from the Czech Republic (5-0 ), Franz villages of Austria (5-0 ) and Viktor Savchenko from the Soviet Union (5-0 ), he won the gold medal.