Janusz Zarenkiewicz (born August 3, 1959) is a Polish former
amateur boxer
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Amateur boxing bouts are short in duration, comprising three rounds of three ...
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"Janusz Zarenkiewicz Bio, Stats, and Results"
. Sports Reference. Retrieved 30 May 2016. He won a bronze medal in the super-heavyweight
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Boxing
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division at the 1988 Summer Olympics
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, where he forfeited his semi-final fight to eventual gold medalist Lennox Lewis. Zarenkiewicz also won bronze at the 1985 European Championships and was a five-time Polish national champion.
Olympic results
*First-round bye
*Defeated Harold Arroyo
Harold Arroyo (born February 18, 1961) is a retired boxer from Puerto Rico. He won the silver medal in the Men's Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kg) division at the 1991 Pan American Games. Arroyo also represented his native country at the 1988 Sum ...
(Puerto Rico), 5–0
*Defeated Andreas Schnieders (West Germany), 3–2
*Lost to Lennox Lewis (Canada), walkover
References
1959 births
Living people
Super-heavyweight boxers
Olympic boxers for Poland
Olympic bronze medalists for Poland
Boxers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in boxing
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
People from Nysa County
Sportspeople from Opole Voivodeship
Polish male boxers
20th-century Polish sportsmen
21st-century Polish people
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