Józef Grudzień

Józef Grudzień

Medal record
Men’s Boxing
Representing  Poland
Olympic Games
	1964 Tokyo	Lightweight
	1968 Mexico City	Lightweight
European Amateur Championships
	1967 Rome	Lightweight
	1965 East Berlin	Lightweight

Józef Grudzień (1 April 1939 – 17 June 2017) was a Polish boxer.

Grudzień was born 1 April, 1939 in Piasek Wielki, Poland, which is near Busko-Zdrój. He won two medals at the Olympic Games: gold in the Lightweight division at Tokyo in 1964^[1] and silver at Mexico City in 1968. He also twice won medals at the European Amateur Boxing Championships, silver at East Berlin in 1965 and gold at Rome in 1967.^[2]

Grudzień won the Aleksander Reksza Boxing Award in 1991.^[3]

1964 Olympic results

Below are the results of Jozef Grudzień, a lightweight boxer who competed for Poland at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics:

• Round of 32: Defeated Tauno Halonen (Finland) by decision, 4–1
• Round of 16: Defeated Alex Oundo (Kenya) by decision, 4–1
• Quarterfinal: Defeated Stoyan Pilitchev (Bulgaria) by decision, 5–0
• Semifinal: Defeated Ronnie Harris (United States) by decision, 4–1
• Final: Defeated Velikton Barannikov (Soviet Union) by decision, 5–0 (won gold medal)

References