Tadeusz Walasek

Tadeusz Walasek
Tadeusz Walasek (center) at the 1964 Olympics
Personal information
Full nameTadeusz Walasek
NationalityPolish
Born(1936-07-15)15 July 1936
Elżbiecin, Łomża County, Podlaskie
Died4 November 2011(2011-11-04) (aged 75)
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight76 kg (168 lb)
Sport
SportBoxing
Weight classMiddleweight
ClubGwardia Warszawa (Nysa, Kłodzko)
Medal record
Representing  Poland
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 0 1 1
World Championships 0 0 0
European Championships 1 2 0
Total 1 3 1
Olympic Games
1960 RomeMiddleweight
1964 TokyoMiddleweight
European Amateur Championships
1961 BelgradeMiddleweight
1957 PragueLight middleweight
1959 LucerneMiddleweight

Tadeusz Walasek (15 July 1936 – 4 November 2011) was a Polish boxer. He competed at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a silver medal in 1960 and a bronze in 1964, both in the middleweight division. In 1960 he lost the final bout to Eddie Crook by a narrow margin (2:3).

Walasek competed three times at the European Amateur Boxing Championships and won two silver medals, in 1957 in the light middleweight division and in 1959 in the middleweight category, and a gold medal in 1961 in the middleweight.

He was the winner of the Aleksander Reksza Boxing Award 1996.