Zbigniew Tadeusz Kaczmarek

Zbigniew Kaczmarek ( born June 21, 1946 in Tarnowitz ( Tarnów Gory ), Poland ) is a retired Polish- German athletes in weightlifting.

Career

Kaczmarek grew up in Upper Silesia, played football as a teenager, then came to cycling, and finally found weight-lifting, which he first intensive use during sports club LZS Tarnów Gory and then at " Gornik " Siemianowice since 1963. In 1964 he was Polish junior champion at lightweight and 1966, he finished in the Polish Senior Championships 4th Place. In 1969 he was first used at the World and European Championships in Warsaw at a major international championship, winning the bronze medal in lightweight. In the course of his future career, he was a multiple world and European champions. Highlights of his career were his duels with his countryman and friend Waldemar Baszanowski he could beat at the World Championships 1970 in Columbus / USA and in 1971 in Lima. 1976 was a shadow on his career when he had to be disqualified after the Olympic victory in Montreal for doping and he had to give up his gold medal to the Soviet athletes Petro Korol.

In 1982, he fled instead to go to Greece on holiday with his German -born wife and his 13 - year-old son in the Federal Republic of Germany, where he was naturalized, was allowed to participate in the Championships in weightlifting and several times German champion. In Kassel and Wolfsburg, he was a reliable and powerful athlete in the team championship in the Bundesliga. He and his wife built in Baunatal near Kassel, a house, and he worked at Volkswagen. Kaczmarek has trained as a mining engineer.

International success / Mehrkampf

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Le = Lightweight, Mi = middleweight, Ls = Light Heavyweight, competitions until 1972 in the Olympic triathlon, consisting of press, snatch and jerk, beginning in 1973 in a duel, consisting of tearing and put)

Continuation of the career as a German:

Medals individual disciplines

• World Championship gold medals: 1971, pressing, Le - 1975, tearing, Le,
• World Championship silver medals: 1969, pressing, Le - 1970, Press, Le - 1970, tearing, Le - 1970, pushing, Le - 1974, pushing, Le - 1975, pushing, Le - 1978, pushing, Le,
• World Cup bronze: 1972, pushing, Le - 1974, tearing, Le - 1977, pushing, Le.

• EM Gold Medals: 1969, pressing, Le - 1971, pushing, Le - 1974, tearing, Le - 1975, tearing, Le - 1976, tearing, Le,
• EM- Silver Medal: 1970, pressing, Le - 1970, pushing, Le - 1971, tearing, Le - 1972, Press, Le -1974, pushing, Le - 1975, pushing, Le - 1977, pushing, Le - 1978, pushing, Le,
• EM bronze medals: 1971, Press, 1972, tearing, Le - 1972, pushing, Le - 1973, pushing, Le - 1976, Stooßen, Le.

Polish Championships

German Championships

World Record

In the snatch: