Władysław Stecyk
Wladyslaw Stecyk (born 14 July 1951 Radowo Małe ) is a former Polish wrestler and silver medalist at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow in free style flyweight.
Career
Wladyslaw Stecyk began as a teenager at the sports club LKS Zieloni Stargard Szceciński with the rings. Later he joined the top Polish club WKS Grunwald Poznań. At a size of 1.56 m and a weight of 52 kg, it struggled as an adult always flyweight, where he completely specialized in free style. Throughout his long career, he worked with a number of coaches: Jan Michalczyszyn, Michal Szachow, Pietko Sirakow, Jan Frankiewicz, Józef Wojtasik, Ludvik Kuflowski and Eugeniusz Najmark.
1972 Stecyk was Polish champion at flyweight for the first time. In the same year he gave at the European Championships in Katowice his debut at an international championship, but only came there on the 9th Place. In 1974 Władysław Stecyk won his first medal, a bronze at the European Championships in Madrid flyweight. He repeated this success a year later in Ludwigshafen.
1976 Stecyk has also been used at the Olympic Games in Montreal. He showed good performance there and won, among others over the Bulgarians Nermedin Selimow. However, he was defeated by Alexander Ivanov from the Soviet Union and the superior Japanese Yuji Takada and reached the 6th place.
Stecyk was very successful in 1977. Initially, he won in the spring at the European Championships in Bursa again the bronze medal and in the fall he was in Lausanne even vice-world champion in the flyweight. In this he succeeded notable victories over the top wrestler Henryk Gál from Hungary, Hartmut Reich from the GDR and Nermedin Selimow. Only against Yuji Takada, he moved back to the shorter.
More bronze medals won Stecyk at the European Championships in 1978 and 1980 in Sofia Prievidza. In Prievidza he controlled it also the West German master Fritz Niebler.
The climax of the career of Wladyslaw Stecyk were the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. He went there in excellent shape, won five fights and was subject only to the Soviet athletes Anatoly Beloglasow. For these services he was rewarded with the silver medal.
The last medal at an international championship eventually won Stecyk at the European Championships in Budapest in 1983, when he finished 3rd behind the new superstar Valentin Yordanov of Bulgaria and Saban Trstena from Yugoslavia.
1985 joined Władysław Stecyk back from the international Ringer happening. In 1988, however, he ventured a comeback and was nominated for the Olympic Games in Seoul. He struggled again flyweight, won his first two fights, but then dropped out after three defeats and finished in 11th place.
Polish Championships
Wladyslaw Stecyk was in the years 1972, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1988 and 1995 Polish champion flyweight or bantamweight.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, F = free style, Fl = flyweight )